The Growing Up Project Is Growing Up!
Having taken root from humble beginnings with many small hands at work, for the past 2 years, Founder, Tom Baxter, has welcomed children from 9 months to 19 years into the organic farm just outside Bristol.
With a fe**sh for fungi, this year The Growing Up Project is being reborn as The Bristol Fungarium, focusing on the finest quality, organic certified UK bred exotic mushrooms and handling the whole process from spores to sterile lab work, liquid mycelium cultivation and finally the fruiting blocks - with the help of Henry Jephson - lab guy, mushroom farmhand, and an all-round top bloke. The team is currently cropping over a ton of +12 strains of mushroom every month including maitake, shiitake, king oyster and 7 other strains of oyster mushroom, wine caps, lions mane, reishi, turkey tail, and cordyceps; and are soon to be launching the first UK grown organic certified range of medicinal mushroom powders and capsules as well as an innovative reishi coffee range, in partnership with a Bristol Roaster. True to name, The Bristol Fungarium will also be working on an initiative with the Fungarium at Kew (the preeminent mycological research institute in the UK) starting field trials for the first commercial production of puffballs and parasol mushrooms in the world.
