The Red Island Mushroom Hunter

15/11/2024

This is the second large flush of oyster mushrooms from this bucket 😁🍄
Next season I'll workshop these buckets again and also have them available for purchase for those prefer to just have their mushrooms and eat them 🍄😜

24/10/2024

Any of my mushroomers from Eastern PEI willing to chat to a journalist from the Eastern Graphic about all the mushrooms that have been popping up this Fall?
Send me a message or comment on this post 🍄😁

14/10/2024

After sharing a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with friends I decided to swing past the monster Shaggy Mane patch in Charlottetown.
Shaggy manes (Coprinus comatus) are a super easy to identify edible that fruits in October, usually during rainy season. They grow on lawns and have an interesting way of dispersing their spores - by deliquescing - that's a fancy way of saying they turn into liquid ink!
Some might have some concerns over lawn chemicals, so confirm before eating. I foraged these to make ink so I'm not concerned about impact of ingesting lawn chemicals. I also wanna add that we really need to stop using toxic chemicals on lawns in the world today, poisoning our planet for aesthetics with how much we know now does not seem smart or responsible.
Follow me at The Red Island Mushroom Hunter to learn more 😁

13/10/2024

Still time to place orders for your wood chips, we'll have everyone's orders ready for end of October.
Please fill in the form in PEI Tiny Timbers post below 👇

Hardwood chips for mushroom garden maintenance

07/10/2024

Short video on how to prepare your mushroom patch for winter 🍄🩷

07/10/2024

Place your orders for wood chips for maintaining your mushroom patches over winter using the link in PEI Tiny Timbers post below 🍄

Hardwood chips for mushroom garden maintenance

06/10/2024

Time for winter maintenance of your mushroom patches 🍄🍄🍄
Place your orders for wood chips in the link below 🍄🩷

Hardwood chips for mushroom garden maintenance

19/09/2024

Mushroom growing on the island is about to go next level!
Yesterday Sukriti and I headed to Belfast to pick up hardwood chips to feed my own mushroom beds and to chat to Omair from PEI Tiny Timbers about a special price on wood chips for my mushroom workshop participants 😁 We ended up sitting outside on the deck drinking tea and musing about how much we love island life and it was time to head back to Grand Tracadie too soon. We all agreed that there's definitely something about this island that brings people together, a very strong sense of community 🩷

PEI Tiny Timbers will be supplying wood chips for my future mushroom cultivation workshops and for existing mushroom growers to feed their gardens 🍄

I'll be taking orders for winter mushroom garden feeding chips soon, watch this space! Orders through my page get a special price and pick up spots will be arranged at a few locations across the island!

15/09/2024

Beautiful day for my first Fall workshop where we made oyster mushroom buckets! Lots of fun and laughs were had and Balto enjoyed all the company 🍄🩷
Sukriti's food was hearty and delicious, shared over interesting conversations.
Next oyster mushroom bucket workshop and meal is next week Sunday, 22 September at 2:30pm. I still have a few spots left if you'd like to join the fun, send me a message to register 🍄😁

07/09/2024

What a show of beautiful colors! Chrome-foot bolete - almost neon yellow at the base of the stem, the color is so vivid that it's hard to believe it's a color that exists in nature! Topped off with a rosy pink cap and scabers (little scales) on the stem.
Just love it when pretty mushrooms are edible!