Behind the Scenes Pt.3 - Shipping Container and Chelsea Prep!
Behind the Scenes at Jurassic Coast Mushrooms:
Pt.3 - Shipping Container and Chelsea Prep!
On the Farm..
As you can tell from the date between this blog and the previous one..it’s been quite some time! It’s for a good reason, we’ve been busier than ever.
In our last blog we had just secured the shipping container and were about to embark on insulating it and fitting it out to make it a suitable space for incubating our hundreds of fruiting blocks for growkits and our grainspawn :)
As part of the grant agreement the work had to be smashed out within a month! Luckily we had Elliots just down the road who offer super fast deliver!..
Once we had the materials, Sam pulled his finger out and along with the help of his dad, got it knocked out in record time.
It quickly transformed from a box, (briefly looking like a Student Union dorm with bunk beds) to a fully equipped incubation room.
It’s dialled in beautifully and it’s already well stocked with fruiting blocks.
Off the Farm..
In typical serendipitous style, we managed to get on the RHS website as a recommended supplier of mushroom growing supplies and shortly after spotted a request from somebody to supply native mushrooms for an RHS flower show.
The request came from a post we spotted on Mushroom Spotters UK, a great mushroom Facebook group btw. Gaia Eros needed native fungi in the middle of May, a time where fungi were anything but abundant, in the wild. We knew there were few places anybody could go and get wild fruits, so our cultivated native strains were the next best thing!
We offered to help and requested more info, quickly realising it was for none other than the RHS Chelsea Flower Show! Quite a big deal and very cool to get the opportunity to showcase fungi at a flower show! :)
Our good friends at the Caley Bro’s have done a few now and smash it everytime! We never imagined our side of the Myco world might one day find us collaborating on an exhibit at one of the most prestigious shows in the country.
We’re supplying a smorgasbord of UK native species, expect to see native Ganoderma lucidum, Hericium coralloides, Cerioporus squamosus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Flammulina velutipes and perhaps a few others :)
Until recently we’d only viewed drawings of the sculpture, but now we have seen the sculpture in the flesh and have done a little dry run, it looks so good! Check out Dimi’s page, he’s done such an awesome job.
Be sure to check on our News Blogs for updates on Chelsea later this month!
Happy Growing 🍄🫶🏼