Blog - Fungi Akuafo Inc

Summer greenhouse photos

by meghan | Oct 18, 2018 | Fruiting Mushrooms

We ate a lot of mushrooms this summer! We also dried a lot of mushrooms. Here are some photos from the summer. The greenhouse worked so well!

Mushroom recipe book! We haven't made too many from this book but we did try the onion cakes with mushrooms. We got better at making them by the end! The beginning ones tasted good but didn't look that great.

Wine Cap – Frozen!

by meghan | Oct 10, 2018 | Fruiting Mushrooms

These little guys decided they wanted to fruit when it was about 5C outside. September 26! It got very cold right after and they froze through. We added Stropharia (Wine Cap) sawdust spawn to these pathways between some of our garden beds in August. The...

Winter came and stayed…

by meghan | Oct 10, 2018 | Mushroom Experiments

We kept hoping that it might warm up! The snow arrived at the beginning of September and refuses to leave. We did heat our fungi greenhouse for 4 weeks and finally decided to "pull the plug!" The water tank has been drained, the pipes blown out and and...

Mushroom extravaganza

by meghan | Sep 5, 2018 | News

On August 25, 2018, there was a dinner at the Bergen Hall organized by Bjorgvin 1907. It was called the "Mushroom Extravaganza"! Every course had mushrooms in it! The oyster and lion's mane mushrooms came from Fungi Akuafo! The evening was wonderful. The guests...

Reishi!

by meghan | Sep 5, 2018 | Fruiting Mushrooms

We harvested all our Reishi we had growing in our fungi greenhouse. We used our new "collar" method and it worked really well! We know we left them growing a bit too long but we had so many people touring the farm we wanted to share their beauty. The...