Fire Restoration & No-Till Garden Update!

We all know that really, every day is Earth Day, cliche as it may sound. However, last week was a special day to bring awareness around how we, as humans, are honoring our relationship with the Earth. At The Mushroom Farm, we believe that “right relationship” with the Earth must be regenerative at its core, meaning that our systems and practices encourage the renewal, restoration, and resilience of new life.

The Earth is our ultimate teacher of regeneration, showing us how even the most micro-mycelial networks are necessary to support macro-level impacts. Our efforts to observe and mimic these systems are imperative as we begin to shift the paradigm of extraction to one of regeneration. Let us care for the Earth the way she cares for us.

Fire Restoration Activation

As some of you may know, in October of last year we had a vegetation fire that burned 61 acres of land here at The Mushroom Farm. While fires often devastate ecosystems, they also ignite the opportunity for restoration, transformation, and conservation. The fire here left behind a blank canvas of rich biomass to reseed and paint a regenerative landscape of native California trees and wildflowers.

Many of YOU helped transform the landscape with us during our December Restoration Day! Four months later, a landscape that once was overtaken by invasive species is thriving. Today, native trees and shrubs like madrones and manzanitas and native wildflowers like California poppy, California buckwheat, blue eyed grass, phacelia, and monkey flower bloom and dazzle us with their colors.

Interested in joining future restoration efforts? Click here to make an impact.

No-Till Garden Update!

Spring has officially sprung in our no-till garden. The ladybugs are out, the greenhouse is full of sprouts, and we are feeling the growth all around. It brings us deep joy to have a greenhouse nursery filled with flowers, vegetables, and culinary and medicinal herbs that will soon be in the ground. We're enjoying plentiful beets, chard, borage, and calendula in our daily meals and are tending garlic, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, strawberries, burdock, and more.

We are celebrating the completion of a big irrigation project that has made way for a ten-fold expansion of our cultivated space. During these strange times, we are so grateful to be able to come back to the abundance of this land. We find comfort in knowing that the way we grow is medicine for the land, and what we grow is medicine for us.. and YOU!