Frequently Asked Questions!
23 Tingley Rd. in Mendham Township NJ. If you you GPS, type in 23 Tingley Rd. Morristown, NJ 07960
Most varieties of mushrooms when grown in Nature only fruit in the perfect conditions once or twice a year. We harvest when they fruit and dry 60% of our harvest of each mushroom. The rest we sell as fresh. Much of our fresh mushrooms sell directly at our farmstand within 48 hours to local residents. Much of the balance we ship to regular customers.
There are two draw backs to growing mushrooms 100% naturally. The first is of course the seasonality. The second is the insects. When mushrooms are fully mature they are a great source of natural protiens. Insects love some mushroom varieties. We protect our mushrooms from insects in two ways; 1. we pick them daily during the fruiting cycle. 2. is our 100 hen strong insect patrol. Our hens keep the insects to a minimum. Despite all this, it is suggested that you fully cook fresh mushrooms just in case.
Lots of animals eat mushrooms. Mammals in particular love mushrooms and eat them in quantity. Deer, Bear, Racoons, Squirrels, Opossums and Ground hogs love to eat our mushrooms. That is why Ajax and Levi (see our team) patrol the farm every day chasing critters away from our crops.
There are three reasons. The first is that Micorrhizal mushrooms need symbiotic relationships with specific trees to exchange nutrients and can only be grown in the forest. The second is that Saprophytic mushrooms create more nutrients and active ingredients when in contact with beneficial bacteria and grown on hardwood logs and mulch harvested in fall and winter (when there is the most nutrients stored in the trees). Growing mushrooms in soft wood sawdust, cardboard or gypsum doesn’t cut it for us. The third reason is because we want to preserve our hardwood forests. Farming by cutting down trees and tilling the soil is killing our planet.
Dietary Bundles are the best way for us to sell to people who suffer from an illness that our mushrooms can help treat. It is a box with several bags of dried mushrooms that help with that specific illness. We discount these bundles heavily to make them affordable for people who need to eat them on a regular basis.
Yes. We have been a micro organic farm for 12 years growing vegetables, honey bees, chestnuts, pears, blackberries and fiddlehead ferns. we also have a flock of 100 laying hens. In 2019 we started farming mushrooms in our woods and have been expanding it every year since.
Yes. Regular customers that have opened an account can place advance orders to insure that they are the first allocation of each harvest.