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About Bristol Fungarium

Our mission is to cultivate, process and provide the best medicinal mushroom products available here in the UK - with the least negative impact on our local environment, while inspiring and educating people about the history, science and healing opportunities of the mushrooms we grow and love. We strive to do things differently by offering native strains, organically grown, comprehensively extracted, and packed under a single roof. We want to be the first to not only make the whole supply chain short and transparent - but potentially the only company who knows exactly where our mushroom's originated in the wild! We do this by carefully foraging for interesting species, bringing them back to our lab at the farm, and cloning them on plates of agar before fruiting them on myceliated blocks we create with sustainably sourced sawdust and organic wheat bran. By prioritising strains that are native to the land we live on, we are avoiding the spread of hundreds of billions of spores from commercial mushroom strains that have been selected specifically for their ability to grow fast and fruit heavily, and will therefore easily outcompete a lot of the mushroom strains we are so lucky to have around the farm. Furthermore - it turns out after recent tests that our native strains have a much higher content of betaglucans, over 36% higher in fact than the commercial strains we tested! Our ultimate goal is to give back to the land we're so lucky to be based on, by utilising the “spent” (leftover) substrate from our mushroom blocks to spearhead mycoremediation projects in our local community, as well as "re-mushrooming" woodlands across the South West with native strains (- which has already begun). Bristol Fungarium is a developing story, and this is only the beginning...