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We supply East Sussex with unique gourmet mushrooms, grown in the centre of Hastings at The Yard

10/11/2024

Golden oyster mushrooms are becoming a favourite! When the mycelium is healthy, it strongly smells of watermelon…
They’re handling this colder weather well, so we’ll keep them growing for now

27/10/2024

It’s not long now until the Water Lane Christmas markets, we’ll be bringing the best mushrooms we’ve got to offer, and, more importantly, plenty of grow kits for Christmas presents!

We’ll be in good company, take a look at .lane for more information.

22/10/2024

Hello!
It’s been a chaotic couple of months attempting to rebuild the farm from the ground up so that I can keep up with the demand for mushrooms and growing kits.
Thanks to the generosity of my friends, we’re making good progress and will have lots to share soon.
I appreciate everyone’s patience in this time, if I’ve missed any messages, just give me a prod.
For now, here’s a huge coral tooth I’ve grown, and Derrick my beloved van.
See ‘s latest post on how to cook coral tooth like calamari!

23/09/2024

I’m so happy to be getting some large clusters of our East Sussex Native blue oyster out to this week.

This is the blue oyster mushroom that found in the woods last year, I cloned its mycelium and have propagated it out into our grow room.

It grows as big as our commercial cultures, and has an impressively firm texture, which probably lends to a great shelf life

Just like all of our mushrooms, this has been grown on local wood waste from

21/09/2024

Thank you for putting on such an inspiring event last weekend! We only made it on the Sunday, but still met so many interesting people and took away so much enthusiasm and knowledge. We’ll certainly be back next year!

21/09/2024

I hope to see lots of you at The Yard makers market today, come take a peek into our grow room! waterworksroad

09/09/2024

We’ll be at the Waterlane Autumn fair this Saturday. This was our first ever market one year ago! It’s always a busy one so do turn up early for mushrooms 🍄

30/08/2024

Come and pick up some colourful mushrooms tomorrow at , It’s always a nice market!

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes, soon enough we’ll be offering local collection (and possibly deliveries?) to the general public, as well as significantly ramping up mushroom production. Let us know which varieties you’re most keen to see 🍄🍄🍄

08/08/2024

We’re starting to get the amazing Coral tooth mushroom out to some chefs in Hastings. Its branching stems and firm texture make it very similar to calamari tentacles when battered and deep fried 🐙🍄
Very popular so far!

15/07/2024

Look at this huge king oyster 😱 it weighed in at 600 grams.
It’s so nice being able to get more varieties growing now that I’m working out of the new lab!

05/07/2024

This months oyster mushroom grow kits contains the Florida blue oyster mushroom. It’s possibly got the firmest, meatiest texture of all the mushrooms we grow. It’s fast growing, high yielding and produces these beautiful dense clusters of delicate mushrooms, they get the most amazing pearlescent blue colour in the right lighting!

04/07/2024

Hastings locals, let me know your thoughts!
I’ve had a lot of people asking if they can buy mushrooms directly from us at our farm at .waterworksroad
So far my answer has been no, we don’t have enough stock.
But now I’m growing more than ever, both in variety and quantity.
If I were to open up once a week for a few hours as a mushroom shop, would you be interested in collecting some mushrooms?
Please let me know what time and day would work best!

Thanks for the continued support from our markets and wholesale customers!

03/07/2024

Mushroom farming takes a lot of work!
Each week, 400kg of sawdust comes through this lab. First I add water and bag it up, then I steam sterilise it to kill any competing mould or yeast, then I inoculate each bag with my home grown “grain spawn” mycelium, all from Petri dish. The inoculated bags are all shaken up to disperse the grains, sealed up and put into incubation.
This is just the first step of growing mushrooms!

Doing it all myself allows me to decide exactly which varieties I grow, and the quality of the substrate I grow the mushrooms on.
It’s why my mushrooms are so pretty! They’re all sustainably grown on nutritious local waste sawdust🍄
It also helps me keep my prices low, as we’re not importing mycelium from europe as many farms do, better for the chefs!

02/07/2024

The golden oyster mushroom!
It’s best suited to warmer weather, so we’ll be growing more of this mushroom through summer and autumn.
I’ve noticed that it’s mycelium smells like watermelon, I’m yet to taste it but I’ve been told it’s quite unique

01/07/2024

We’ve got a new round of T-shirts and hoodies ready to go!
More sizes available now.
Many thanks to for the design and for printing them.
Message me if you’re interested!

29/06/2024

Today is the day!
Come along to the beacon to hear me talk about mushroom cultivation, see Zak from , Ollie from , and some great food by the brewing brothers!
Tickets can be bought at the door
Tickets can be bought at the door

28/06/2024

I’m really pleased to say that most of our mushrooms this week have been grown on local sawdust from East Sussex.
Thanks to the generosity of and .
It really makes sense for our business. It means we’re not spending huge amounts of money to purchase imported sawdust, helping us keep our prices as low as possible for all the chefs and home-cooks out there, which is important to me.
It’s also yet another reason why mushroom farming is so sustainable, we’re able to grow hundreds of kilos of nutritious food off of the waste products of other local businesses. It’s an added bonus that once we’ve grown a few crops of mushrooms off of the sawdust, we’re left with a very nutritious mushroom compost that we can give away for free to help fertilise our local soils!
has been using our mushroom compost to build up the soil at his new permaculture food forest at the St Leonard’s academy.

17/06/2024

It’s hard to beat the king blue oyster 😀

Address

The Yard On Waterworks Road
Hastings
TN341RT

Website

http://www.Basilsfungifarm.com/

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