World Soil Day

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

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...
Thriving Mushrooms Summit

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...
Straw 2020!

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...
Straw and using it as garden mulch

Straw and using it as garden mulch

Typically, we sell straw as a growing medium for mushrooms.  After getting many requests from others to buy straw, we did market some straw this year to gardeners! We wanted to post some feedback we got on using straw as garden mulch.  We sold quite a few straw bales...
Introducing Reishi powder and capsules

Introducing Reishi powder and capsules

Reishi!  We are super excited to be able to sell dried Reishi powder in Alberta.  With the new relaxed regulations, we are able to sell these low-risk foods in Alberta.  https://www.alberta.ca/low-risk-home-prepared-foods.aspx These products are available at the...

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