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Forest of Dean Mushrooms

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We are mushroom cultivators and farmers in the Forest of Dean.

25/09/2025

reaching out in the hope that our community can help - we're looking for a small piece of land to dwell on in the forest of dean as the current rental market is not aligning for us. We have a large Luton camper, but ideally, we would need to bring a temporary dwelling on to comfortably house our family. a static caravan, for example. We're happy to pay generously monthly/yearly ground rent. We can also get a reference from our previous residents.

We're a small family, myself (nay) ryan and 1 year old esca. Ryan runs forest of dean mushrooms, alongside running a human rights NGO, and I'm a full time mumma to esca. We've lived alternatively previously in communitys, off grid in our camper and in cabins on lands offering our help or rent in exchange. Collectively, we have a bunch of skills, organic growing, building, home making, silver jewellery making. I'd say we're pretty chilled, opened hearted/minded folk that value community, communication, and intentional living.

Please share this far and wide. much love ry, nay and esca x

23/07/2025

To our lovely customers both retail and wholesale... We're closed for a few weeks as Naomi and I move house... 🚚
it's a good opportunity to slow the mycelium growth down (switching off the incubator) and cleaning down the fruting chamber which is much needed with all this heat.

This will be our last week on the Food Hub for the next few weeks and we'll be back in August.

See you then! 🌳🍄💚

15/07/2025

Lion's Mane and Oyster mushrooms have some of the highest concentrations of ergothioneine. A powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound. 🍄🦁🦪

Ergothioneine is a naturally occurring amino acid and a powerful antioxidant, which primarily only obtained through diet, particularly from mushrooms. There's some studies that show that it can be found in vegetables but this is only in trace quantities and only really when there's fungi association.

It's known for its potential anti-aging and cytoprotective properties, with research suggesting it may help protect cells from oxidative stress and support healthy cellular aging.

We currently have dried Lion's Mane & Oyster mushrooms and our Lion's Mane Dual Extract Tincture available on our website.

There's a 20% off sale running on our Lion's Mane tinctures right now.

10/07/2025

20% off our Lion's Mane Tinctures with code LION20. Mental clarity and anti-inflammatory 💚🌳🙏🍄🦁.

Sale runs to end of July, only available on our website!

07/07/2025

Oyster mushrooms are on of the simplest and most efficient mushrooms we grow. They thrive on pasturized straw - no sterilisation, use minimal energy and no need for complex machines.

Foods like this offer a low-input, high-nutrition option that fits well into small-scale local growing models.

You can get our oyster mushrooms at The Dean Food Hub weekly & soon the Green Grocer in Coleford.

03/07/2025

Lion's Mane is one of the mushrooms we grow as part of a broader effort to build more resilient local food and medicine systems.

Traditionally used in East Asian medicine to support digestion, memory and nerve health, it's now being studied more widely for its potential to support brain and gut function. But just as important as what it does in the body is how it's grown.

Most Lion's Mane available in the UK is imported - usually dried or powdered - and predominantly shipped in from China. Some of the major producers of Lion's Mane in the UK even ship fruting blocks in from abroad and claim it's locally grown. This creates a huge distance in food and medicine miles.

We cultivate Lion's Mane on a small scale, using low-input methods. Cultivating mushrooms creates a huge resilient food and medicine system as a local producer because it doesn't need much land, water or energy. It turns waste like sawdust into something nuritishing for our bodies. All the spent substrate, is then used to create compost or worm castings, to go back into the soil and grow more food.

As climate and health care systems become more fragile, we need to learn to grow our own food and medicines in varying different ways to create resilience.

30/06/2025

Fresh from the farm — shiitake

These beautiful mushrooms are the result of patience, care, and a dialed-in environment. With good fresh air exchange, we’re getting dense fruiting bodies and nice short stipes.

That signature craquelure on the caps is not just pretty — it often signals richer flavor, usually brought on by a bit of healthy stress from fluctuating humidity and temperature.

Our underground fruiting chamber holds steady at 16–19°C through the summer, with naturally high humidity (around 90%). We’ve recently started bumping it up to 95% using a timed humidifier, running 8 hours a day — and the shiitakes are doing really well by that.

We’re thrilled to start bringing these to our customers.

23/06/2025

Speckled Chestnut (Pholiota adiposa) 🌰🍄. It's a mushroom that grows primarily on Beech, Poplar and Willow. They taste similar to shiitake, but slightly nuttier... think this might be my new favourite mushroom to grow!

10/06/2025

Our dual-extract Reishi tincture is back in stock! 🙏💚😌🍄.

We've crafted these to deliver a full spectrum of this powerful mushrooms benefits. A dual extraction provides maximum bioavailability of key compounds like beta-glucan and triterpenes. This supports immune function, reduces stress and promotes better sleep. We grow our Reishi on Doves Farm Organic Rye, local hardwood sawdust & organic wheatbran -- nothing else!

You can get it on our website or .

06/06/2025

We have lots of our native Scottish Pearl Oysters in rotation right now! They are much more delicate than other Oysters, mild, slightly sweet, and subtly anise-like 🍄🌳🐗.

You can get them this week and next from a few places!

🍄 On Dean Forest Food Hub along side your veggies and salads for Wednesday and Friday deliveries.
🍄 On your at tomorrow as a special!
🍄 🤞hopefully at 🤞
🍄 Direct from us for orders over 2KG!

Address

Oaklands Park
Newnham

Opening Hours

Tuesday	9am - 5:45pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:45pm
Thursday	9am - 5:45pm
Friday	9am - 5:45pm
Saturday	9am - 5:45pm

Website

https://forestofdeanmushrooms.com/

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