by meghan | Dec 11, 2020 | News
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... 
by meghan | Dec 11, 2020 | News
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... 
by meghan | Dec 3, 2020 | News
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... 
by meghan | Oct 25, 2020 | News
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... 
by meghan | Aug 9, 2020 | News
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... 
by meghan | Jul 6, 2020 | Fruiting Mushrooms, News
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...