With limited supplies in supermarkets, and unlimited time to spend indoors, now’s the time to take up gardening and to start growing your own, no matter the space you have. It’s no surprise that interest in gardening has soared in recent weeks. As well as being a potential food source, many people are taking up […]
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Growing for Good
It’s hard to believe that eight years ago Robbie, Jon and I started out as a group of coffee-drinking food lovers determined to bring you the best in fresh, local and sustainable produce. We were fresh out of Uni and juggling a few different jobs when we were first inspired by Gunter Pauli’s Blue Economy […]
Raymond Blanc Gardening School – Grow Your Own Mushrooms Course at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
Since we met Raymond Blanc back in August 2014 during the filming of Kew on a Plate, we’ve been helping the gardening team at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons with oyster mushrooms for their Valle aux Champignons. This Autumn, the gardening team are running a fantastic programme of gardening courses including Autumn Vegetables, Edible Flowers and […]
Send to friends – with your Christmas Card
We haven’t even been on Summer Holiday yet, so completely agree it feels a bit early to be talking about Christmas – but we had this idea that will appeal to the more organised (or super last-minute) amongst us, so wanted to share with you now. We offer Gift Wrapping on our mushroom kits, and […]
My Grow Your Own Mushroom Experience: The Beauty of Fungi
January is a special time of year for us as we get to see hundreds of photos of your Kitchen Garden mushroom kits that have been grown since Christmas. Take a look at our Instagram, Twitter and Facebook pages to have a gander. We loved watching Valentina’s mushroom updates on her fantastic Instagram page and […]
International Deliveries – all over the world!
We’re delighted to let you know we have now expanded our delivery service to enable us to offer shipments to Europe and many other countries around the world. In the UK, we offer free delivery for all orders over £15 as standard, but for Europe and other international countries we’ve had to add a postage […]
Our favourite moments of 2014
We’re already looking forward to 2015; a few new products in the pipeline and we’re looking forward to you seeing what happened when we met Jamie Oliver, Jimmy Doherty, and Raymond Blanc – but that’s all top secret for now… Looking back, 2014 has been a pretty epic year for us as well. As is […]
Valentines Gift – Say it with Mushrooms!
Valentines Day! Hasn’t it just been Christmas? That’s what we thought too – but the demand for exciting Valentines gifts that are more original than a box of chocolates or bunch of roses is such that we wanted to let you know about our Say It With Mushrooms Valentines offer – a novel way for […]
Win Cafédirect coffee and cafetiere
We’re delighted to be partnering with Cafédirect this month – and we hope that as people who love good food, care about where it comes from, and want to indulge your taste buds while supporting an independent enterprise you’ll appreciate this too. Like us, Cafédirect believe things that are made better taste better – which […]
Sam’s Espresso Mushroom and Scotch Beef Fillet Stroganoff
We love this oyster mushroom recipe from chef Sam Metcalfe. Sam runs the award winning Sam’s of Brighton bistro that serve up exceptional British dishes in Brighton. In fact, Sam’s of Brighton was the first restaurant to serve our mushrooms in March last year – doesn’t time fly! They do a great Sunday lunch and […]
