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25/06/2026

They say when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

When life gives you a heatwave…

…you fire up the grain steriliser and make even more heat.

Just another normal day growing mushrooms.

21/05/2026

Been playing around with koji lately. Not as a business thing, just genuine curiosity. The more I work with fungi and fermentation, the more I realise how connected all these worlds are. Koji, molds, mycelium, fermentation, decomposition, flavour building… sometimes competing with each other, sometimes working together, but all part of the same wider ecosystem.

Started with some barley koji experiments and ended up pushing into vegetable charcuterie territory. Honestly, the flavour development is wild. Deep savoury notes, natural sweetness, weird little funky edges that keep evolving day after day. It feels somewhere between fermentation, preservation, and cooking.

What I enjoy most is how alive the process feels. Nothing is fully controlled. You guide it, observe it, adapt to it. Same mindset that got me into mushrooms in the first place.

Still experimenting, still learning, still probably ruining a few batches along the way, but that’s part of it.

Just received some koji and I’m honestly excited to start playing with it.It sits in that interesting space between mold...
13/04/2026

Just received some koji and I’m honestly excited to start playing with it.

It sits in that interesting space between mold and mycology, where things blur a bit.

Same principles, different applications.

Feels like a natural extension of what I’ve been building, just coming from another angle.

Let’s see where it goes.





26/03/2026

Working towards an umami-rich vegan mushroom gravy.

Burnt onions for depth, mushrooms pushed hard in the pan, herbs in, deglazed with red wine, then left to do its thing low and slow.

Strained it out, brought it back, added a touch of tomato for body, and reduced it down.

Still refining, but getting closer to something I’d be happy to freeze dry and keep on hand.

24/03/2026

Back in September I spoke about building a community mushroom garden.

Then winter hit. Things slowed down, as they do.

I went down to yesterday to catch up ahead of this week end workshop on the 27th, and Kevin showed me what’s been happening in the background.







Honestly, it caught me off guard.

The shed is up.
The beds are in.
The space is real.

Volunteers have been putting in the work quietly, just showing up and building it.

This weekend, during the workshop, we’ll be building more beds live and starting to develop the area for growing wine cap mushrooms.

What started as an idea is now something tangible.

Now it’s time to keep pushing it forward.

19/03/2026

Working with what’s available.

Turn a pre-cooked wholegrain rice pouch into a quick grain setup, ad an injection port and a simple filter patch made of micropore tape !

If you’ve got liquid culture but no grain ready, this is one way to start playing around without a full setup.

Not contamination-proof, but it can give you a clean starting point to understand the process.




17/03/2026

Outdoor Mushroom Growing Workshop

In this session we explore simple ways to grow mushrooms outside using low tech methods. We’ll look at wine cap beds, growing in containers or straw towers for oyster mushrooms, and the basics of log inoculation.

There will be live demonstrations and some hands on practice. Participants will also receive some wine cap spawn to start their own patch at home.

Saturday 28th March
2–4pm


Booking link in bio




11/03/2026

A few moments from the past weeks working with mushrooms.

Grain preparation, workshops, experiments with freeze drying, and getting ready for the next sessions.

Next up is a workshop focused on growing mushrooms outside. We’ll look at simple methods using logs, straw towers and wood chip beds, and which of these can be adapted to take home and grow from a balcony or small London space.

Workshops taking place at Saturday 28th of October. Book directly with me or via eventbrite.

10/03/2026

Morning in the lab. Inoculating dowels with grain and agar, then moving straight into grain prep. One batch of wholegrain rice for simple home grows, another batch of rye for more vigorous cultures. Clean work, steady process, building the next rounds of mycelium.




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