What have we been up to?
We know we have not been posting to our blog! We apologize… We have been working hard to increase our business and our infrastructure. We are fortunate that people are more interested in local food and where their food comes than ever before! That means interest...
Oops!
Oops! We migrated our website to a new hosting platform today... Our initial testing was good but it looks like there were problems with a bunch of the links on our site today. Thanks to the customer who notified us! Everything is up now and good. Thanks!
Live Online Class with the Light Cellar!
Get the best of both worlds! Tara, from Fungi Akuafo, will teach you how to fruit from a mushroom grow kit. Malcolm, from the LIght Cellar, will teach you about the medicinal uses of the mushrooms you will grow! One grow kit is included in the registration. Class...
World Soil Day
December 5, 2020 is World Soil Day! This year’s theme ‘keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity’ aims to raise awareness of the importance of sustaining healthy ecosystems and human-well being’ by encouraging people to engage in proactively improving soil health to...
Our name
You might be wondering why the name Fungi Akuafo? That is a little nod to the fungi 'Queendom' and our sister farm, 'Akesi Farms'. Many people ask us if 'Akuafo' is Japanese but it is actually Fante, one of the Akan languages spoken in Ghana where Meghan's husband,...
Thriving Mushrooms Summit
Check out this free mushroom summit starting tomorrow! Lots of great speakers. https://www.farmsummits.com/ If you are thinking about growing mushrooms or have been for a while, there is a talk for everyone! (We are promoting this event just because we think it's a...
Straw 2020!
Straw! 2020 was a better year for grain harvests than the super wet 2019... We purchased some fantastic wheat straw for mushroom growing and some oat straw for garden mulch usage. This straw is from an organic grain farm near Mayerthorpe, AB. Sometimes we don't get...
The new lab building
We have power! Almost this entire panel is dedicated to the new lab and incubation space... We did a lot more planning this time as we have a better idea of what we need. We are also building a very large root cellar that will have a dedicated space for spawn. It...
The new lab
The new lab! The workbench is in, the flow hoods installed, and the fridges in place. It should be a lot easier to keep this space clean! The air is filtered and along with the flow hoods, it should ensure very low contamination rates and higher quality spawn. ...
