Forest Fungi

Forest Fungi is a mushroom cultivation supply and education business run by Will Borowski at Woodbridge in southern Tasmania. They sell grain spawn, inoculated and plain eucalyptus and birch dowels, inoculation tools and cultures, and run mushroom growing courses. Their published method is heat and mineral based: pressure cooking or steaming the substrate, supplementing with hardwood sawdust, oat chaff, bran and gypsum, pasteurising in a wood ash or hydrated lime bath, and sealing logs with beeswax or cheese wax rather than paraffin. They describe their approach as organic cultivation techniques, without holding a certification. There is no farm gate or shop – order online or book a course.