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11/07/2024

We had a lovely time yesterday working with students at East Manchester Academy to build wormeries at

The wormeries will be used to divert the schools food waste from conventional waste management, creating lovely compost to use on the gardens to grow food. In doing so, this will save carbon and build carbon stores in the soil, combatting climate change.

The kids got a chance to work with tools, learn about soil ecology and were very brave handling the worms! 🪱

Thankyou to the school & Beswick Urban Growers for having us and to for supporting this project

09/07/2024

Do you know mushrooms will grow on books?

This quick hands-on session will talk you through the process of growing oyster mushrooms on old books. Participants will have the chance to inoculate a book that they no longer want, which will then fruit at home.

This project is a fundraiser for the a q***r-led community library specialising in left-wing political theory, history and q***r literature. Hosted at the farm in

What to bring

- Bring some books to inoculate with mushroom spawn! The best books to bring are thick books made from uncoated/ not glossy paper - think a Harry Potter book.

- If you want to donate any lefty or q***r books to the Pride Library, please bring them along too.

Tickets are sliding scale £10-£15, based upon what you can afford. No one turned away for lack of funds, please email [email protected] to get in touch.

08/07/2024

Had such a gorgeous time at yesterday for their Sunday Session on moss! We got to know mosses and liverworts a bit better, had a look at some under hand lenses and even key out a couple of liverworts!

Thankyou to everyone who came and for for hosting us lot from

07/07/2024

Do you want to learn to grow oyster mushrooms sustainably at home in re-useable buckets? 🍄‍🟫

Join myco at on the 31st July for our oyster bucket workshop

Tickets available at mycomanchester.com/events

04/07/2024

Had a lovely day on Sunday at our Elderflower Wild Walk around Fletcher Moss

If you are interested in learning more about mushroom foraging and identification, check out our upcoming Mushroom Identification Weekender in October - book online at mycomanchester.com/events

02/07/2024

Do you want to learn how to grow mushrooms on logs? 🪵

Come along to our log cultivation workshop on 24th July! From 6pm-7.30pm at the myco farm at

Attendees will take home an inoculated log, so please be sure you can take it home!

01/07/2024

Jesse from will be joining for their Sunday Sessions on Sunday 7th July to give a workshop about mosses and liverworts

This workshop will give participants an understanding of bryophyte ecology; what makes mosses and liverworts different from other plants, why they are important, and how best to go about identifying and recording them. The workshop will involve taking a look at lots of different mosses and liverworts with a hand lens, so you can see all their tiny structures.

Book by calling up Hulme Garden Centre on 0161 227 8198 or pop into the Garden Centre

29/06/2024

Tomorrow we will be going for a wild walk around Fletcher Moss, picking some elderflowers and bringing them back to the myco farm to make these stunning pickles

These make great additions to grilled cheeses, ploughman’s and salads!

Due to an admin error 😭 we have some tickets left for this event. There’s a cheeky £10 discount if you want to pick up a last minute ticket! Book online at mycomanchester.com/events

28/06/2024

Win a ticket to our Soil Science Weekender!

Humanity is completely dependent on the 4 inches of topsoil covering the soil for all our food, and many of our other needs too. But what do we know about the soil, and why is it rapidly disappearing?

Join Myco for our Soil Science Weekender, where we will deep dive into what’s going on under your feet. This course will cover a theoretical understanding of key soil topics such as soil texture and profiles, soil solution chemistry, and soil erosion. We will also cover some in-the-field tests to help you understand the soil you are working with better.

The course is based at our site at on 31st Aug - 1st Sept.

To enter the competition you must:

🌱Be following us on insta
🪱Share the second image in the carousel (the event poster) to your stories
🍄Tag a friend in the comments

Each story share and comment counts as a separate entry. Good luck!

We will be choosing a winner on Friday 12th July at 5pm.

If you don’t fancy chancing it, pop over to our website to book at ticket with 20% discount on us 😊

27/06/2024

Tomato, basil, and elderflower salad 🌸

Elderflowers are not just for cordials and champagnes! They really add a beautiful floral note to savoury applications too.

This recipe for this salad will be in the recipe zone given out to attendees of our Elderflower Wild Walk and Pickle Making Session on Sunday. There are still a few spots left to book, you can book online at mycomanchester.com/events

Whilst we are here, there are 3 spots left on our functional mushroom course on the 6th July too! 🍄

26/06/2024

Have you ever seen black elderflower trees before? (Well, they more accurately have lovely purple colour leaves). The pink elderflowers have this gorgeous pink colour that comes through to cordials and wines.

Here’s a gorgeous elderflower and dog rose champagne, the recipe is in the zine that attendees to Sunday’s elderflower wild walk will receive. Book online at mycomanchester.com/events

25/06/2024

Elderflower poached apricots served with yoghurt and pistachios

To make the poached apricots I made a poaching liquid of foraged elderflower cordial (~100ml), sugar (~100g) and water (~500ml). I eyeballed the amounts but it was something along those lines.

Heat to a simmer and add in your halved and stoned apricots for about 10 mins.

I served them on top of (vegan or dairy) yogurt with some chopped pistachios.

See if you can spot the bee friend visiting the Greater knapweed flowers. 🐝🌺

This recipe is featured amongst other elderflower recipes in a little zine that is being given out on Sunday’s elderflower wild walk. Book your ticket at mycomanchester.com/events

20/06/2024

Peat is a natural product that forms when plants die, and accumulate in unique environments called peat bogs. These boggy wetland ecosystems, typically dominated by Sphagnum mosses, host a range of unique animals and plants that may only be found in a few areas of the world. If you’ve ever come on one of our plant or mushroom walks around Delamere Forest in Cheshire (we will be going there for our Mushroom Identification Weekender), we might have pointed out the peat bogs found there.

Peat, when crushed under layers of rock for a few millions of years, ultimately becomes the fossil fuel we know as coal. Peat bogs currently cover around 3% of the planet’s surface, but are responsible for storing around 15-30% of the planet’s carbon dioxide. Peat accumulates very slowly, around 0.5 to 0.6 mm per year, so it can take a very long time to recover once dug up. Due to its slow growth, it is not considered a renewable resource.

So why are we at Myco so concerned about peat? Amongst other historical reasons to extract peat, it has been a valuable resource to commercial mushroom growers—especially those growing button mushrooms. Peat holds plenty of water required to maximise mushrooms yields, and its low pH means that it resists contamination and enables repeated harvesting.

Some countries like the UK have been planning to reduce peat use, but their deadlines for action keep getting pushed back and their pledges only target specific sectors (e.g. banning garden compost containing peat while allowing extraction to continue). With the climate crisis in full swing, we at Myco don’t think this is acceptable. Though choosing to avoid peat puts us at a serious commercial disadvantage, we feel the preservation of this ancient, biodiverse, carbon capturing ecosystem is more important than short term financial gain.

As a result we pledge to never use peat in any of our growing processes, and call for immediate action to stop the extraction of it.

18/06/2024

We had a lovely day at the weekend running two workshops - a bucket cultivation workshop and a log cultivation workshop.

We have some more cultivation workshops that have just gone live on the website, both on weekday evenings. We have a log cultivation workshop on the 24th July and a oyster bucket workshop on the 31st July.

We’d love to see you there! Book online via mycomanchester.com/events

16/06/2024

Come deep dive into the world of mushroom identification with us, on this weekend long course. This course will combine field trips and classroom study using keys and other materials to help you identify fungi found in the UK.

By the end of the course, you should have the skills necessary to classify mushrooms into the major groups, and identify some mushrooms to species level. You will have learned field techniques and identification skills necessary to help you to go out mushroom hunting with confidence.

13/06/2024

We have some really exciting volunteering news!

We have managed to secure funding from for a two-year Myco Manchester Volunteering Programme starting in July. Our aim with the programme is to make mushrooms a more accessible food for more people. We’ll be focusing on a few things across that time.
- Cultivating mushrooms!
- Packing and incubating mini mushroom buckets to distribute to people who want to grow their own at home.
- Heading out to green spaces and doing surveys of what mushroom species are out there and how they’re doing.
- Using surplus veg to make fermented foods and distribute to people free of charge.

We’ll be holding our volunteering sessions fortnightly over the next two years and you can book a place by heading to the event page on our website site. The first volunteering session will take place on Thursday 4th July and is live on our website now.

As a small team we have sometimes struggled to manage volunteer requests effectively. Our new volunteering programme means that we will be able to reciprocate people’s generosity with a structured programme of learning and skill development. We look forward to seeing at the farm!

12/06/2024

Join Myco for a wild walk around Fletcher Moss where we collect some elderflowers (and potentially other goodies) before returning to the Myco farm to make some elderflower pickles. Each participant will take home a jar of elderflower pickles, and a little recipe zine full of more ideas of how to use elderflowers.

(This was a scheduled event and we had only one person sign up, so we decided to cancel. However a good few people have been in touch about the event since so we have decided to reinstate it!)

28/05/2024

Giveaway time! Win a space on our Functional & Medicinal Mushroom Course on 6th July 2024 at in Manchester

To enter, you have to:

🌲be following on instagram
🍄 like this post
🌳tag a friend who might be interested, each comment counts as a separate entry so tag as many people as you’d like
🍄‍🟫 share the event poster (second in this post carousel) to your stories
🍃 deadline is Sunday 9th June at 12 noon

Details about the event will be in the comments. If you don’t want to leave it up to chance, you can always book your spot at mycomanchester.com/events

25/05/2024

We are having a Bank Holiday sale! 20% off the following courses:

🍄Mushroom Cultivation Weekender 22-23 June
🍄‍🟫Functional & Medicinal Day Course 6 July
🪱Soil Science Weekender 31 Aug- 1 Sept
🌱Joint tickets for soil science and soil ecology weekenders

Sale running til 1pm Tuesday 28th!

23/05/2024

If you come along to our Mushroom Cultivation Weekender in June you will go home with lots of goodies!

You’ll take home an inoculated mushroom log, a mushroom bucket, a reishi monotub, liquid cultures, and cultures on agar.

You’ll learn all the techniques you’ll need to culture wild mushrooms, make spawn, and grow mushrooms using a variety of methods.

Sliding scale tickets

Book online mycomanchester.com/events

19/05/2024

It’s elderflower season!
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Join Myco for a wild walk around Fletcher Moss where we collect some elderflowers (and potentially other goodies) before returning to the Myco farm to make some elderflower pickles.
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Each participant will take home a jar of elderflower pickles, and a little recipe zine full of more ideas of how to use elderflowers.
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Sliding scale pricing, book online via mycomanchester.com/events
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18/05/2024

Had a lovely afternoon wandering around “the lost garden of Fallowfield” - the botanical garden at the University of Manchester.

This space, which up until now has only been used for education and research, is starting to open up more to the public. It’s great to see another green space becoming more accessible - more of this thing please!

Jesse particularly enjoyed the rare filmy ferns in the moss house and the beautiful pond and glasshouses.

14/05/2024

Join Myco for our Mushroom Cultivation Weekend Course where we’ll dive deep into everything you need to know about each step of mushroom cultivation.
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Set over two days, the course will cover a mix of theory and practical activities, giving you the knowledge and skills to culture a range of species, make your own mushroom spawn and utilise multiple cultivation techniques.
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Sliding scale pricing
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Venue is at
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Book online at mycomanchester.com/events
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12/05/2024

Had such a lovely weekend with folks on our Woodland Ecology Weekend course. Impeccable vibes, great weather, lots of things to see and learn about!

On Saturday we started out with a historical and ethnobotanical account of what a woods is/are/were, we talked about keeping biological records, Rob led a tree identification session, and we looked at how environmental conditions change with tree densities - the edge effects.

Today we led a long, meandering tour of Fletcher Moss stopping and meeting lots of plants, trees, parakeets, mosses and fungi! Then, practiced using keys to identify plants rather than relying on recognition. We ended with a discussion on how best we can support the land in its desire to erupt in trees and become forest🌳

Thankyou to everyone who came and made this weekend magical.

For people interested in more things like this, check out our events page - the mushroom identification weekender in October might be of interest.

09/05/2024

Humanity is completely dependent on the 4 inches of topsoil covering the soil for all our food, and many of our other needs too. But what do we know about the soil, and why is it rapidly disappearing?
🌱
Join Myco for our Soil Science Weekender, where we will deep dive into what’s going on under your feet. This course will cover a theoretical understanding of key soil topics such as soil texture and profiles, soil solution chemistry, and soil erosion. We will also cover some in-the-field tests to help you understand the soil you are working with better.
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Sliding scale pricing, at the Myco Farm at
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Book online at mycomanchester.com/events
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08/05/2024

Come join us on the 16th June for a a workshop teaching you how to grow oyster mushrooms in buckets!
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Participants will get a bucket to take home which will hopefully fruit a few weeks later
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Sliding scale pricing
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At the Myco farm at
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Book online at mycomanchester.com/events
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03/05/2024

Join us at the farmers market on Sunday at 12 in the frog house where we will be talking about how the UK can sustainably feed itself using agroecological principles. Hope to see you there!

30/04/2024

Win a space on our Mushroom Cultivation Weekend Course on June 22-23rd at

To enter, you have to:

🍄‍🟫 be following on instagram
🍄 like this post
🍄‍🟫tag a friend who might be interested, each comment counts as a separate entry so tag as many people as you’d like
🍄share the event poster (second in this post carousel) to your stories
🍄‍🟫 deadline is Friday 10th May at 12 noon

Details about the event will be in the comments. If you don’t want to leave it up to chance, you can always book your spot at mycomanchester.com/events

29/04/2024

Had such a lovely time at our last wild garlic walk and fermentation session of the year yesterday!

For anyone feeling like you missed out, we will be running more fermentation sessions later on in the year, so please join our mailing list at via our website to keep in touch!

We also have some upcoming identification workshops and weekenders on our website mycomanchester.com/events

25/04/2024

This hands-on session will talk you through the process of oyster mushroom cultivation step by step, working through both the theory and practice of how to grow your own tasty oyster mushrooms!
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Attendees will take home their own bucket ready to fruit at home, with aftercare instructions and a guide on how to get the best out of your harvest. We’ll provide everything you need, just wear comfortable clothing you don’t mind getting a bit dirty.
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Tickets are sliding scale, £25-£35 based upon what you can afford.
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