Mushbloom Gardens

Oh hey! Long time no MUSH👋. How’s everyone doing? A lot has changed since our last Mushbloom update last November. Think it’s finallyy time to pop in on the socials for a semi formal “Hello!”. Now that it is summer (happy solstice 🌞) and we have been getting asked the question it feels every time we venture out… We can officially announce Mushbloom will be coming back🎉 When? Well, I guess we like to keep you on your toes! With lots of planning ahead of us, we are currently in the process of finalizing build plans in a new space, raising funds (more details to come), and trying our best to strategically make this work for the long run considering we are sort of starting all but scratch again. We have appreciated the enthusiasm from those eager to see us at markets and local menus once again and thank you for your patience. Hope to see you all around and this time with some more positive news to share🧡🍄‍🟫💚 In the meantime here are some pics from our off-season adventures late winter/early spring’24 🙂

With gratitude, Sam and Cam

Hello! Here’s an important update on the Fall and Winter Season of Mushbloom🍁🚨❄️
Firstly, thank you all 🧡 To every organization, customer, and fellow fungi enthusiast who has made this a wonderful experience for us thus far. This market season has showed us what we are capable of, what our options may be moving forward, and how growing food can grow community.

One of the cool things about mushroom farming is that depending on the operation, it is possible to farm through winter. We were planning to bring more mushies and different varieties to you the next few months but, unfortunately we have stopped production earlier than planned. To those who were looking forward to that, we send our apologies. Being young, first-generation farmers has it’s ups and downs. Farming has served us well this year but as renters, unfortunately some things are out of our control. We have explored our options and feel we need to do what makes the most sense for our situation, our wellbeing, and for us financially. We have a lot going on! All that considered, we have decided that Mushbloom has officially started winter hibernation. If you have visited us at the Athens Farmers Market or kept up with our stories the past few weeks, you are aware that this past Saturday 10/21 was our last market of the season. Definitely an exciting market to end on ! (The Halloween Bash🎃If you are wondering why we are dressed as snails 🐌😎)

At this time it is difficult to say when and if we will be back up producing and fruiting in 2024. In the mean time, we will still probably pop in on social media here and there to share some fun wild fungi, food content, and to keep you in the loop on our journey. We appreciate your support 🧡

Thank you for blooming with us.
Mush love and gratitude,
Sam and Cam of Mushbloom Gardens

OoOooOoo SpooOoky Market
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Don't forget about the Athens Art Guild Halloween Bash THIS Saturday (Oct 21) at the Market! Bring the whole family and wear your best costume!

Market Hours: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Root 56 Farm -Athens, OH 😮‍💨🥵🔥

🗣*Name your own price sale* 🔥🌶

That’s right, pay what you want, nothing more! You pay $10 shipping cost on a small flat rate box (sfrb) from the post office, plus whatever you’d like to pay for the peppers, and we’ll fill the box and send it you! No questions asked, no judgement. Pay a little or pay it forward, it’s up to you, we just wanna make sure everyone has access to fresh peppers 😊 We have done this a few times in the past and people really seem to appreciate it so we are doing it one last time this season. Picked today/shipping today... US only
Pm me for a payment link, once payment is received boxes will be mailed and you will receive tracking info!

Boxes may include:
Carolina Reaper
Apocalypse Scorpion
Fatalii
Puma
Yellow Scorpion
Scotch Bonnets
Brazilian Starfish
Buena Mulata
Lemon Drop
Habanada (no heat habanero)
Aji Charapita (wild Chile from Peru
Trepedeira Werner (wild chile from Brazil)
Wild Chiltepin (wild Chile from US/Mexico region)

Fall Fungi Festival 2023
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It was a beautiful weekend for fungi fun and autumn appreciation. Thanks again to those who joined us for our workshop and walk 🥰 and thank you to and for creating such a wonderful space and event for Fungi enthusiasts to share and learn together🍄💕

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last image: Smoked Oysterling (Resupinatus applicatus)

What a fun way to end such an eventful day! Morning market and Fall Fungi Fest🎉 It was wonderful to see fungi lovers new and familar🧡Thank you for joining us for the Forest to Lab Workshop and night hike today🐛🔦🕷️🍄 Looking forward to going through our photos annnd for tomorrow! (The second day of fest fun!) We’re ready for bed 😅😮‍💨😴Appalachian Understories

🤎🫶Back at you pioppino🫶🤎
Good morning! See you soon .ohio 9-12pm 🌦️

These pioppinos are showing a great visual of how mushrooms can change color with age. They can develop or lose pigmentation depending on light, growth stage, and/or simply genetics. At first glance you may think these are two different strains or two completely different species. They are the same! How cool. Sorta reminds me of apples or peaches…sort of.

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Here is a direct link for the Fall Fungi Festival tickets! Oh, those two look familiar..

**We will NOT be vending at the fall festival. We will be vending at the AFM before😉 Scroll down on our page to see more details 🧡

This weekend is Appalachian Understories ‘s First Fall Fungi Festival 🍁🍄🍂🎉 Swipe to see more details and the schedule filled with so many great fungi specialists, enthusiasts, and local community 💚

After the Saturday Athens Farmers Market 9-12pm we’ll be making our way to to join in on the fun! We will not* be vending but will be leading a class and a night walk 🍄🔬🎉🌲🌙

At 2:30pm join us for a “From Forest to Lab Fungi Workshop”. We’ll go over approachable methods to start mushroom cultures at home and general citizen science exploration. You’ll also get the chance to clone your own mushroom sample to culture🧫💕

The night walk will be at 7:30pm⭐️ Please dress appropriately for the weather, bring your flashlights, water, and foraging questions. We hope to find some bioluminescence species 👀

Will we see you there? Be sure to check the links in Appalachian Understories bio for your tickets and additional info🥰 (We have shared it on our FB Page too) See you around!

first image: throwback 2022 photo of wild maitake clone from tissue sample

The late evening sky of the last Shawnee Farmers Market of the season 🚀🐓🌙Friday 10/06 ⭐️ Thank you Shawnee Farmers Market, surrounding community, and all who came by to say hello all those first Fridays. We’ll see you around 💚💚💚

Last Shawnee Market of the Season👻 THIS FRIDAY ❤️

HOME | Shawnee FM We have hand-picked vendors from Shawnee and the surrounding areas to sell the best produce, merchandise, and art that reflects our city, culture, and love for our community!

See you Thursday Bobcats 💚😎🍄

Ohio University Student Senate is hosting an On Campus Farmers Market! The event will take place on September 28th from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at Howard Park! (corner of E Union & S College)

Some of your favorite AFM vendors will be there! So, stop by and support this new event!

Good morning from your lions mane pal 💛 Here to say Mushbloom will be at the Athens Farmers Market TODAY Saturday 09/23 9-12pm with many fungi friends🎉 Lions mane, Pioppino, and Blue Grey Oysters (We’ll be switching it up again soon😉) annnd DIY grow bags.
🚨Todays SPECIAL: Lions Mane 🦁 🚨

🍄1 box (1/2lb) for $10
🍄Have snap coins? Green and/or gold! 1 box (1/2lb) for $8
🍄2 boxes (1 lb) for $15 !

Tell a fellow mushroom lover or one soon to be!

We’ll see you around🌼🐛🎵May you enjoy the weekend ☀️

TODAY joining the farmers at the Wednesday Athens Farmers Market will be several health organizations and professionals for the Community Health Fair
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Tomorrow is the Community Health Fair! We hope to see you there!

Paw post 💁🏻‍♀️🥰
Hope everyone had a lovely weekend and if attended, a wonderful pawpaw! 🎵🌈🍽️🏆🪴🍻📚🐛🎉

🤎💚Happy 25th 💛🤎

There are lots of fun events happening this weekend😍🎉 Have you heard that Rural Action and the Athens Asian American Alliance (AAAA) are hosting a cooking event this Saturday 09/16!! If you’re looking for cooking inspiration or interested in how mushrooms are incorporated into many cultural dishes, be sure to check it out. We will be there to talk mushrooms and Mushbloom for a brief period but we are so hype to learn from local members of our community in the kitchen! More details below from our friends at Community Food Initiatives and the comments💚🍄🍽️

Check out this awesome workshop from our friends at Rural Action coming up on September 16th!

Rural Action, in collaboration with the Athens Asian American Alliance is excited to offer a hands-on workshop on growing and preparing Asian vegetables. This engaging event will include a cooking demonstration and tasting session, during which participants will discover the unique flavors and benefits of these delicious plants.

The event will take place from 4-6 pm at the Culinary Studio inside Jefferson Marketplace at 101 East Union St., Athens, OH 45701. Free parking is available in the lot across the street at the corner of Stewart St. and East Union St.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-vegetable-workshop-tickets-619287695167?aff=oddtdtcreator

It’s Wednesday🥰 So if you’ve been dreaming of mid week mushrooms💭may your dreams come true🧚🏽‍♀️🪄🧞‍♂️We’ll be at Wednesday Athens Farmers Market TODAY 9/13 9-12pm with fresh fungi. If you miss us, there’s also Saturday AFM 💕 See you around! 🌤️

photo: gillshot😍 pioppino

September already😱🎉 We will see you later Shawnee Farmers Market 🐓

🐓It's Market Day!🐓

Come out to the Shawnee Farmers Market TODAY from 5 to 7 p.m. at the corner of Routes 93 and 155. We'll see y'all this evening!

Mushbloom Gardens
Psychedelic Fibers
Red Door BBQ NS
Perry County Health Department
Perry County District Library
Discover Perry County
Destination Shawnee

It’s a triple market week😱🎉We will have fresh fungi and grow bags for your enjoyment the following days:
🪱TODAY Wednesday 08/30 9am-12pm .ohio
🐛FRIDAY 09/01 5pm-7pm
🐝SATURDAY 09/02 9am-12pm .ohio

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As August comes to an end, we’re ready for chilly nights, new routine, seasonal food and flavors. How about you? We’re looking forward to welcoming September with you! See ya around 🪴🌝🌤️🍄🍽️

image: Italian oysters
Athens Farmers Market. Shawnee Farmers Market

Have you gotten a grow bag from us? Here’s a reminder to check your spent blocks!

After you’re done your rounds of harvesting from your grow bag, it is then considered “spent”. That doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t fruit in the future! These are some of ours we leave out for the backyard critters and crawlers to enjoy (sometimes us too). Some people like to:
-bury the full block in their garden bed
- break up and use in gardening/farming soil
- mix with wood chips
-use in compost/build up soil
-bury it halfway in a damp shady spot outside and cover with an wood chips, leaves, sawdust or clean straw
-simply leave it under a tree or your bushes

Whenever we get some rain or temperatures are spring-like or fall-like, give them a check👀 They like to surprise you! You should get at least one and possibly several more harvests from your outdoor spent block❤️



image: pioppinos and golden oysters fruiting on spent blocks.

The fungi friends have been pondering their market lists💭 Have you heard?? It is 🎉 We are looking forward to seeing you TODAY 8/9 at the Athens Farmers Market 9am-12pm. There will be even MORE than the usual Wednesday fun with farmers, makers, and community resources 💛

We will have plenty of fresh mush: Pioppino, Lions Mane, Oysters
And grow bags of the same!
Also, some free coloring pages ☺️🎨🧡

Won’t be able to make it out today? We will be there at the AFM Saturday 9am-12pm as well ☀️

image1: Pioppino image2: Fungi Friends coloring page

Have you seen Shawnee Farmers Market’s BEAUTIFUL flush of Italian Oysters?? TOMORROW August 4th, 5-7pm at the Shawnee Farmers Market we will have fresh farmed fungi and of course some Grow Bags for your own harvest fun 🥰🍄🎉

Here we have some of the clouds from the last days storms ☁️⛈️☁️ just in time for the Wednesday AFM Market .ohio TODAY 9am-12pm.
This week, Lion Mane will be having the spotlight accompanied by grow bags in a few varieties 🥰 Hope you’re staying cool in this heat and we’ll see you around!

Good Morning ☀️ Here with a market update🚨 Mushbloom WILL NOT be present this upcoming Saturday 7/22 for AFM. We look forward to seeing you next time!

This photo is from a fluffy meal prep moment🫡🔪☁️🦁 We’re fans of a fine chop and a rough tear but sometimes we need a little more🌪️💥🌪️! Have you ever put your mushrooms in a food processor?? Here we have that has been pulsed and shredded in the food processor before seasoning and cooking down in the cast iron. Sometimes we lean into seafood flavors when we shred LM but this time we decided to draw inspiration from ground meat/chicken flavors. Keeps well in the fridge to include in meals throughout the week! 🍄🤝🐓

•JULY UPDATES•
A new month is a few days away🤯 so it seems like a great time for some market updates🌞

For the summer months (and summer heat🥵) we are going to take it easy and keep it simple with our current varieties and will be spending more “office time”along “farm time” planning for our favorite season: Autumn 🥰 With that in mind, July and August will be less fruitful compared to spring. So, we might not be at every market this month! Be sure to check into our stories for updates💕

🚨As mush🍄 as we would like to kick off the first day of July with you, we will NOT be attending Saturday 07/01 AFM 🚨

BUT we are looking forward to seeing you the FIRST WEEK twice (possibly thrice👀 look out for our weekly Wednesday AFM updates!)
FRIDAY 07/07 Shawnee Farmers Market
SATURDAY 07/08 Athens Farmers Market
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UPDATED: We will be attending AFM Wednesday 07/05
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July is a special month for us. What are you looking forward to this July?
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photo: italian oysters

🌞Good Morning 🌞 We’re looking forward to seeing you soon 🙂

TODAY at the AFM we have fresh boxes for you AND per usual diy grow bags, buy two get $10 off. Not so usual ALL grow bags (including lions mane!) are $20! The diy excitement you have been sharing with us has been 🥰🥹🧡🙀❤️💥

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Athens Farmers Market.

Oh hey👋 How’s your week been?

Thank you for an exciting jam packed first week of June markets🧡🎉 This second week has been a bit 🙃⏳😩🎢😅🤪😮‍💨 if you know what I mean. We have been adjusting production! With that in mind, for TOMORROWs 6/10 Saturday AFM 9-12, there might not be much BUT there still will be mush😏🍄 We’ll probably have some details later in our story! Hope you enjoy the day ☺️ See ya

Just popping in to say 💥🍄Mushbloom will NOT be attending the Wednesday Athens Farmers Market TOMORROW 🍄💥We will see you Saturday 6/10 .ohio 🧡🧡🧡

Are you seeing what I’m seeing👀😳? That’s a mix…a PARTYY mix 🕺🏻🪩💃🏻🎉 For the upcoming markets we’ll have a few* LIMITED variety mix boxes available! Party of one, two, five? Your choice! 😜🍽️We are curious how interested YOU would be in The Party Mix going forward. Let us know in the comments🧡 These are great for your mushroom medleys, sampling different varieties for that new recipe you’re experimenting with, and tasting for the first time. These boxes consist of a party of: , , , and .
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🌱ALSO did you know our packaging is not only compostable, but they allow your fungi to keep well in your fridge for over a week! No humid plastic = no slimy shrooms.

second image (brown and white box for size scale)