GroCycle: turning an empty office into a mushroom farm

By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture

I had the great honour the other day of formally opening the UK's first urban mushroom farm.

Grow your own mushrooms on straw

By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Collective

I’ve been experimenting recently with growing my own oyster mushrooms, and as you can see from the photos, I’ve met with some success. I was motivated to explore mushroom cultivation partly because I’m a vegetarian and want to produce my own high-protein alternatives to meat; but I was also interested in using so-called ‘dead space’ to grow food (either inside or down the shady side of the house). Oyster mushrooms tick both these boxes, and they are also ridiculously tasty.