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We are a small family homestead next to the Little Maquoketa River in the Midwest Driftless Region. Stone Hollow Gardens began in 2015.

Christopher and Emily Appelman moved into a windmill house nestled between two limestone ridges. The month after they moved in they broke ground, readying themselves for the garden to follow. A month and a half later they were already selling plant starters at the Dubuque Farmers Market. Since then they have become known as the local foragers and growers. Eight months out of the year they organica

lly farm, cultivate and forage mushrooms, and make jams/preserves with berries gathered from around their local area. Their cultivated mushrooms are grown outside on logs. This growing method enhances flavor and makes each mushroom variety seasonal. Outside of the season they offer dehydrated mushrooms. Stop by the Dubuque Farmer's Market and visit the Stone Hollow Gardens stand. Throughout the season stay updated weakly on what will be at their stand. Dubuque Farmer's Market is every Saturday, beginning the first weekend in May, from 7am to 12pm.

08/29/2026

An incredibly fun but
busy busy week in and out
of the Hollow …..

Attended Sageville’s “Back To School Open House” with the girls on Monday after finally getting our amazing and not so little girls back into their school of choice, needless to say Sparrow & Esmae Moon Were more excited for their first day back to school Than I’ve seen them in a very long time!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😉🤗👊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

And early week spent wandering timber and trail in search of wild eats For our bellies and Dubuque Farmers' Market as well as More than a bit of tedious Mushroom work in between things here in the Hollow…. Creating 🍄‍🟫grow bags, expanding liquid🍄‍🟫cultures, inoculating future🍄‍🟫blocks, initiating the fruiting process in over 30+ ready to fruit mushroom blocks preparing for fall, winter and future harvests over the next few months….

And a Thursday to Friday impromptu visit to Iowa City with Mae Mae Moon to navigate a couple very important 🦷 issues…. So incredibly proud Of our most amazing 7 year old girl for her Bravery, strength and patience As we managed this hurried but important 🦷 surgery in Iowa City…. Don’t worry Esmae is back home Cuddled up and cozy here in the hollow with The Papa and her most amazing supportive sister Sparrow recovering and resting for the weekend!

In order to navigate a restful weekend for our youngest Mae Mae moon This here Papa will be taking off this weeks Dubuque farmers Market for all the right reasons 😉🤗👊!

But don’t worry we’ll be back next Saturday bright and early Saturday morning With an epic Fall Mushroom harvest wild and homegrown, Stone Hollow Mushroom Science Kits, Piping hot Homemade & Homegrown Seasonal 🍏Apple🍎Cider🍏, Delicious Pink and Good O’l fashion Lemonades, Riverstones, Mississippi Agates, Ready to Fruit 🍄‍🟫 kits and more at Dubuque farmers market!

Until next week be well my friends…. We’ll see you then.

08/21/2026

Medical appointments, a beautiful weekends worth of beyond Grateful tribe time well spent with Sparrow Lee & Mae Mae Moon, Midweek Cave exploring with great friends, hurried Orchard Pickings at the Vineyard, Hefty homegrown mushroom harvests here in the hollow and a few timber wanders in between things grab’n wild eats for tomorrow morning’s Dubuque Farmers' Market !

And just like that we’re back to Friday with less than 24 hours to go before we’re setting up those big blue canopies and fill’n our tables with a beautiful abundance of our delicious homestead offerings……

A little exhausted But Looking forward to seeing all your smiling faces tomorrow morning where we’ll be rolling in Homestead heavy with 3 tasty Sparrow & Esmae’s carefully crafted Pink🍒and 🫐Old-fashioned🍋Lemonade🍉creations, freshly picked homegrown🍄‍🟫and wild🍄‍🟫mushrooms, Bartlett🍐and Asian pears, 🍄‍🟫Seasoning🍄‍🟫blends, Medicinal🍄‍🟫Teas, Medicinal🍄‍🟫mushroom extracts, Stone Hollow Trio & Single Science/Stem kits, several varieties of deliciously, Several Varieties of Deliciously Dried Mushrooms🍄‍🟫and more Bright and early Tomorrow morning at Dubuque farmers market 7 AM to 12noon !

(FYI… Ready to Fruit Stone Hollow’s Own grow your own Mushroom🍄‍🟫kits…. Coming soon)

08/14/2026

A Soggy bottomed⛈️and busy, busy week in and out of the Hollow……

A somewhat compromising as well as a precariously slippery week spent wandering timber & trail In search of wild morsels for home, our bellies 🤤 and tomorrow mornings Market…😉🍄‍🟫🫐🍄🌿👊…..a nice flush of Wild Chicken of the Woods & a Few late season Oyster mushrooms were procured, a rainy day trip to the Vineyard/Orchard to check on Concord’s 🍇 and harvest a few flats of Bartlet as well as Asian Pears 🍐 in between things !

Back at home in the Hollow my most amazing and beautiful not so little girls Sparrow Lee & Mae Mae moon landed back home For 1 of our 2 most Cherished and grateful weekends together outta the month… they got to Squeeze’n lemons🍋press’n cherries🍒, blueberries🫐, raspberries And juice’n a couple delicious local watermelons🍉 to whip up some of the best Pink and Old-Fashioned lemonade this side of the Mississippi…… while our beyond creative young entrepreneurs navigated their homestead inspired lemonade creations and bagging up RiverStones The Papa(me) got down to a bit of somewhat hurried Market prep restock’n🍄‍🟫 Seasoning blends, Prepping then drying one of my favorite Medicinals Red Reishi, bottling 🍄‍🟫extracts, pick’n a literal plethora of Fresh Organically grown Mushrooms🍄‍🟫from the Shroom Shack(Shiitake🍄‍🟫,Lions mane😳,Baby&Jumbo🍄‍🟫Portobello and Golden/Grey Dove/Blue/Florida Oyster Mushrooms), weighing and box’n up an epic🍄‍🟫mushroom harvest, putting around 30+ new fully colonized🍄‍🟫grow bags into they’re fruiting chambers, inoculating 20+ newly made 🍄‍🟫 5 1/2 pound🍄‍🟫grow bags, putting together a few more “Stone Hollow Mushroom Trio and Single Science Kits, Sorting then box’n up Pears in between hanging out with the girls, making popcorn/huge from scratch Belgium waffles/delicious breakfasts/lunches & dinners, watching movies, playing games and enjoying the precious time we have together…. And just like that….. here we are again back to Friday rolling Homestead heavy 😉😵‍💫🙏😳👊with less than 24 hours before we’re dodging rain☔️and setting up those canopies, tables and laying out our
grateful Homestead goods
at Dubuque Farmers' Market 😵‍💫 !

So put on those rubber boots, grab an umbrella, your loves and come find us rain or shine tomorrow morning 7 AM to noon at Dubuque farmers market…… see y’all soon !

08/08/2026

Well, friends as always a long busy as all get out and somewhat precarious week in the hollow….

Took a weekend off to enjoy and embrace my time with my most amazing and beautiful girls Sparrow & Mae Mae Moon during the very short time that we get to spend together….. never seems like enough And goes by far too quickly…. Visited our incredible Grandmama over the River and through the woods,Watched movies, played games, made a whole lotta popcorn And an in general weekend spent having fun with the girls….. creating beautiful memories and cherishing what we have!

After an amazing weekend spent with my 2 beautiful not so little girls…. Hit the ground running on Tuesday and spent the rest of the week getting all the important things (grain🍄‍🟫spawn transferred, substrate🍄‍🟫bagged,🍄‍🟫directions made… etc) prepared, labeled and boxed up For our “ Stone Hollow Mushroom Trio & Single Science/Stems Kits” for their debut at this morning’s market……As well as harvesting a ridiculous amount of delicious fresh mushrooms from the Shroom shack….had just enough time left over on Friday to get lemons squeezed, cherries🍒 as well raspberries Pressed, blueberries🫐 and watermelon juiced for Mae Mae & Sparrow’s lemonade stand… a busy week indeed!

And just like that, we’re back to getting up before the sun rises in just a few hours before we see y’all this morning at Dubuque Farmers' Market !

Even though the girls will be absent from Market this week, keeping a promise and rocking their amazing little business even when they’re not here….So Stop by and grab some lemonade or fresh picked beyond organically grown mushrooms friends
😉🙏👊…. And if you’re feeling creative and adventurous stop by and procure one of our NEW Stone🍄‍🟫Hollow Mushroom inspired science kits….. literally a take home family style workshop in a box… that your whole family will love….. Easy to create where all you gotta do is get your hands a little bit dirty and add just a few cups of water and you’ll have a whole lotta fun watching delicious culinary mushrooms grow from beginning to end….

Grab your loves and stop on by this morning 7 AM to noon…..
We’ll see you soon 😉🍄‍🟫👊

08/01/2026

An amazing opportunity to learn with the whole family…. An amazingly easy DIY take home🍄‍🟫workshop in a box.

Available starting next week at Dubuque Farmers' Market 7 AM to noon ! 😉🍄‍🟫🤯👊

Stop down, learn more And grab one of these mindfully sourced & Organically made beyond educational Stone Hollow Trio & Single Science/Stem🍄‍🟫Kits…. Easy & beyond educational Fun for the whole family….And bonus, y’all get to eat what you grow after 7 to 8 weeks of incubation!

Just a reminder, that we won’t be at Market this morning….Taking a weekend off….
After a beyond challenging and slightly exhausting 😉😵‍💫👊 2 1/2 years of aggressive ☢️ treatment…..Sparrow, Esmae and me “The Papa” Are stepping back for a few days this week, to enjoy each other, the love we share and the life we live… to Embrace Each other & those all important little moments in between things!

But don’t you worry, we’ll be back next week bright & early at Dubuque farmers market 7 AM to noon…..with our new Stone Hollow Mushroom Trio & Single 🍄‍🟫 Science/Stem Kits, Medicinal 🍄‍🟫Teas & Extracts, 🍄‍🟫 Seasoning blends, Several Varieties of Fresh Harvested🍄‍🟫 Organically grown Mushrooms, Deliciously Dried🍄‍🟫Mushrooms, Sparrow & Esmae’s Organically made Pink and Old-Fashioned Lemonades, Mississippi Agates, time tumbled River stones and so much more….

So enjoy your weekend and we’ll see y’all next Saturday rain or shine at Iowa’s Oldest Farmers Market…. Dubuque farmers market!
😉🍒🪴🍋🍄‍🟫🌿☕️🍉👊

07/30/2026

-NEW PRODUCT & OFFERING ALERT-

Wanted to thank our amazing community and tribe for another amazing market…. As well as a big old fashion thank you to all you busy Ragbrai riders who rolled through Market last Saturday!

Also wanted to talk about one of the reasons why I personally and all of us here at Stone Hollow Homestead started doing farmers market as a vendor…..

For us here at Stone Hollow, Dubuque Farmers' Market has always been the best opportunity for us to teach people about the most amazing and resilient world of 🍄‍🟫fungi🍄‍🟫 (edible or not edible),
to teach all the amazing people in our community about the resiliency, beauty and the overall necessity of fungi and mycelium when it comes to soil, growing food as well as the importance of mushrooms and Mycorrhizal mycelium’s presence in our forests……

This has always been my personal favorite things when it comes to every Saturday morning we get to relay our love for and teach our world and the people around us about one of the most important parts of our ecology……🍄‍🟫MUSHROOMS🍄‍🟫…..

Without mushroom mycelium on a mycorrhizal level and its very existence in our soil, land and forests none of it works….. and nothing grows!

So long story short, All of the above and the every week opportunity to teach people as well as our amazing community all about the beauty and importance of fungi in our ecology, has led to an amazing idea as well as a new offering/product from all of us here at Stone Hollow!

Through trial and error, about 11 months of experimentation a whole Lotta work and gratitude……

-NEW PRODUCT & OFFERING ALERT-
(more like a DYI at home family workshop)

We would like to introduce our
Mushroom Trio & Single Science/Stem kits for Families, Mushroom Education & beyond….

Our Easy low tech Science/Stem
Grow Your Own Mushroom Kits
Which include the following
NON-GMO & Organically sourced components……

The
Mushroom(Trio)Science/Stem kit

-3 Large 🍄‍🟫 grow bags w/filter patch-
-3 zip ties- (use a vacuum sealer to seal🍄‍🟫bag if you have one on hand)
-3 bags of pre-weighed dehydrated 🍄‍🟫Mushroom substrate-(an amazing proprietary blend of Mindfully & Organically sourced dehydrated Grains & Hardwoods)
-3 pre-weighed bags of calcium dioxide-
(for 🍄‍🟫 substrate pasteurization)
-3 separate fully colonized bags of Grain or Sawdust Spawn that contain 3 different delicious Oyster Mushroom 🍄‍🟫 strains for inoculation-
-1 pair of Nitrile rubber gloves-
-1 set of easy to follow how to directions-

The
Mushroom(Single)Science/Stem Kit

-1 Large 🍄‍🟫 grow bag w/filter patch-
-1 zip tie- (use a vacuum sealer to seal bag if you have one on hand)
-1 pre-weighed bag of dehydrated 🍄‍🟫 mushroom substrate- (an amazing proprietary blend of mindfully & Organically sourced dehydrated Grains & Hardwoods)
-1 pre-weighed bag of calcium dioxide-
(for 🍄‍🟫 substrate pasteurization)
-1 separate fully colonized bag of Grain or Sawdust Spawn that contains 1 delicious Oyster Mushroom 🍄‍🟫 strain for inoculation-
-1 pair of Nitrile rubber gloves-
-1 set of easy to follow How to directions-

Using our easy to follow directions as well as our methodology to create each huge 5 1/2 pound 🍄‍🟫 kit….The whole process takes about 10 minutes to create each fully inoculated 5 1/2 pound kit !

Each mushroom trio kit includes all the ingredients you’ll need to create 3 x 5 1/2 pound fully inoculated grow your own mushroom kits…. And our Stone Hollow mushroom single contains all the ingredients you’ll need to Create One 5 1/2 pound fully inoculated Grow Your Own Mushrooms Kit….

Easy Peezy…. All you need is a a 6-7 cups (per kit)of cold water, a little bit of rubbing alcohol to sterilize, a container to hydrate then mix your substrate in and something to stir it all up.….
🎉🎉🎉😉🍄‍🟫👊🎉🎉🎉

Where you and the whole family get to experience from creation to harvest
The entire lifecycle’s of 1 or 3 different delicious mushroom strains for yourself…. Just like we do here on the Homestead.

Each of these easy to create 5 1/2 pound kits Take around 10 minutes each to create, about 7 - 8 1/2 weeks to incubate, completely colonize, Initiate the 🍄‍🟫 fruiting process….And before you know it…….your delicious culinary Mushrooms
are Ready to harvest….

Each kit produces several flushes of delicious Oyster Mushrooms for your culinary enjoyment…. Where you get to watch the entire life cycle of these beautifully amazing and delicious culinary fungi from beginning to end….in about 7-8 weeks You also get to eat what you grow.

Also wanted to remind y’all that me “The Papa” and the girls are taking a week off from Market to embrace each other, the love we share and the life we live….

But don’t worry we’ll return next Saturday on The 8th of August….. where we’ll have several Stone Hollow Mushroom Trio & Single
Science/Stem kits Available among our many Market offerings For y’all To procure & gander at….. also let us know what you think of this idea…. We are always in a place where your opinion as our amazing community and tribe matters most…….couldn’t do any of what we do without ya!

We’ll see you bright and early next Saturday morning at friends….😉🍋🍄‍🟫🌿☕️🫐🪴🍒🍄‍🟫🍉👊

Until then be well and try to remember to embrace those all important 🥰 little moments in between things….

07/24/2026

After an amazing weekend and market spent with the girls Last week….. A Monday to Friday slow roll of a week…..Was spent with a little bit of time each day in between things in full rest mode for the Papa and a Somewhat medically compromising start to our week dealing with the many post treatment symptoms and repercussions of what things look like now after three years of aggressive ☢️ therapy and everything that it took to not just fight but survive this battle with the Big C…….

Rest rest rest….. and an every day roll spent catching up in between things preparing for this weeks Dubuque Farmers' Market !

The Lemon’s 🍋 have been squeezed, the cherries 🍒 and raspberries have been freshly pressed, the watermelon 🍉 and blueberries 🫐 have been juiced….. and although Sparrow Lee and Mae Mae Moon are on their family vacation with their mama I promised to rock there stand “ Little Bird & Mae Mae’s Riverstones and Oddities” in their absence…… so let’s show them a bit of support….Stop by and grab a glass of ice cold old-fashioned lemonade with a twist…..
Best lemonade in pink lemonade this side of the Mississippi (not just saying that because I’m The Papa😉🥰👊) let’s show them the love even though they’re not there…. all proceeds from lemonade sales are 100% Sparrow And Esmae’s every time! 😉🫐🍋🍉🍒👊

On the Stone Hollow side of things….. The plants have been watered, the Medical tea’s, Tinctures & Extracts have been carefully crafted and restocked, the 🍄‍🟫seasoning blends have been bottled, Delicious🍄‍🟫mushrooms have been dried then Bagged…..
😉🌿☕️🍄‍🟫🪴🍄‍🟫🌱👊

And most importantly The Mushrooms have been Freshly harvested & boxed….. several beyond beautiful varieties to choose from this week…. Wild crafted Chicken Of The Woods on the wild side & deliciously gorgeous Snow Flake Shiitake mushrooms, Cold Blue, Golden, Florida, and black Pearl oyster mushrooms as well as a Plethora of Baby & Jumbo(1/4 lb😳) Portobello Caps Available for your cook’n & grill’n needs….
We’ll also have several containers of our deliciously beautiful and 100% Organically grown 🍄‍🟫’s available in our unique 1/2 lb. Stonehollow 🍄‍🟫 Mushroom Trio boxes So y’all can get a taste of everything that we have to offer 🎉😉🍄‍🟫🤤🍄‍🟫👊🎉!

Trying to stock up by grab’n your mushrooms and everything you need for cook’n this week….. I’ll be taking next week off with the girls….. the doctors are really wanting me to step back and rest more than I am…. Also Living a life where me and the girls get to see each other for a couple days every two weeks….
So trying to use that time wisely where we could really use a week where the only thing on our plate is my two beautiful Girls Sparrow & Mae Mae Moon, Rest, a couple paddle boards and a lake to wander….. I hope y’all understand but sometimes especially in our lives….. the most important thing is to embrace each other, the love we share, what we have and that all important Rest…Rest…Rest… In between things!

But don’t worry friends we’ll for sure be back on Saturday August 8th rocking those canopies at !

07/18/2026

Well folks after a hot as all get out kind of week here at Stone Hollow Homestead….more than a few epic mushroom harvests from the Shroom shack all 🍄‍🟫’s 100% organically grown and ethically produced…… a nice sized catch of wild Chicken Of The Woods was Gratefully WildCrafted out of local timber……A little bit of lemonade and pink lemonade magic in between things created by the girls…… also 100% organically created as far as all the ingredients used, a little bit of that love & pride Sparrow and little Miss Mae Mae adds to every freshly made batch of some of the tastiest, lemonades and pink lemonades this side of the Mississippi….

And just like that, We’re back to Friday early evening putting the last-minute touches on our offerings for this mornings Dubuque Farmers' Market 😉🍄‍🟫🍋🍒🌱🪴🌿🍉🍄‍🟫🫐👊

We’ll be rolling in Homestead heavy with with an absolute abundance of 100% Organically Homegrown and ethically produced Mushrooms 🍄‍🟫…..
Wild and Fresh Picked Chicken Of The Woods, delicious Homegrown Baby and Jumbo Grill’n Portobello’s, Mushroom Trio & Combo packs filled with a Delicious handpicked assortment of….Baby🍄‍🟫Portobello, Lions Mane, Shiitake, Pink, Grey Dove, Pearl, Black king and Florida Oyster Mushrooms…..

As well as Potted flowers, herbs🪴 and assorted yard plants…..Stone Hollow Mushroom seasoning blends, Belly brew & Stone Hollow wellness blend, Loose leaf teas, a large assortment of deliciously dried🍄‍🟫mushrooms, a wide assortment of Stone Hollows own Medicinal Mushroom extracts & Tinctures…. And more.

And saving the very best for last “ Little Bird & Mae Mae’s Oddities & RiverStones” Time tumbled Mississippi agates and 100% fresh squeezed and organically made Lemonade, Cherry🍒/Red Raspberry Pink🍋Lemonade and their flavor of the week Freshly Pressed & Squeezed Blueberry🫐/Watermelon 🍉 Pink lemonade this week…. 100% of the proceeds made at their little booth within a booth Go to Sparrow and Esmae….. this little growing lemonade and whatever they come up with stand is 100% theirs to run as they please….. incredibly proud🥰Papa🥹over here…. So show them a little bit of support.
Stop down and grab a glass of Ice Cold Pink lemonade……

We’ll See you bright & shiny this morning at Dubuque farmers market 7 AM to noon. It’s gonna be hot today folks!

07/10/2026

A beautiful and beyond amazing weekend and week spent adventuring and exploring the creeks, lakes and tributaries of Iowa….camping, Swimming, paddle boarding, wood, wandering and more with my most amazing beautiful girls Sparrow Lee & Mae Mae Moon…..

After an amazing week well spent with my beautiful not so little Girls…..We spent time in between things preparing for this week’s Dubuque Farmers' Market as well as the ongoing rebuild Stone Hollow Homestead as we’ve come to know it….

Preparing, pasteurizing and inoculating 40+ (Cold blue Oyster this time) 🍄‍🟫 Grow bags and ready to fruit grow your own 🍄‍🟫 Kits all 100% Stone Hollow made and organically created then placed directly in incubation….. bringing our total incubating 🍄‍🟫 bag number up to 260+ grow bags and ready to fruit🍄‍🟫kits sitting cozy in incubation for cultivation here at Stone Hollow, Dubuque Farmers Market and beyond…..

Worked on a few market related side projects with the girls….. more on that soon… a Somewhat late Thursday night spent with Sparrow…. Pressing 🍒’s and squeezing 🍋’s For some of the best tasting Lemonade and Cherry & Razz Pink lemonade this side of the Mississippi….Yep, Super proud of my little girls in order to diversify and add to their market offerings Look out for a few more seasonal flavors all ingredients fresh, real, and organically made amongst their offerings on the weekly throughout the rest of
the season 🎉😉🍒🍋🍇🫐👊🎉!

Last but not least we made an epic harvest
In the constantly improving 🍄‍🟫 cultivation room known as the “Shroom Shack”…..look for Golden, Phoenix, Pink, Black Pearl, Black King Oyster mushrooms accompanied by
a heavy pick’n of Baby Portabella & Jumbo grilling portobello plus so much
more among our offerings this week !
😉🍋🍒🥤🍄‍🟫🌱🌼🧅🌿🧄🪴🍄‍🟫👊

We’ll see you tomorrow morning bright and early, same space, same big blue canopies at Dubuque farmers market 7 AM to noon with bells on!

07/03/2026

Well folks, we’re gonna do it…..It’s been decided with much discussion in between things, that Sparrow Lee, Mae Mae Moon and the Papa are taking the weekend off to celebrate the 4th of July as well as our Independence Day……
our first real day off in over 10 years!
🎉🎉😉🎆🔥🏕️🎣🌲🏊‍♀️🛶👊🎉🎉

A much needed and well-deserved weekend off spent embracing and celebrating each other after the longest and most precarious 2 1/2 years of our lives a weekend off for this here Papa and my beautiful girls To make room for more than a bit of as I said much needed and well-deserved adventuring , fireworks 🎆 camping 🏕️ paddle boarding swimming🏊‍♀️ and more along the turkey river….. here in Dubuque and beyond…… don’t worry we’ll see you next week folks bright and early Saturday morning under the canopies at Dubuque Farmers' Market….. but this weekend we’re going to be wrapped up in celebration of each other as a family, my survival and fight against the Big C……and most of all Embracing the Beautiful LIFE that we share together!

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22786 Mud Lake Road
Dubuque, IA
52001

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