About us – Essex Mushrooms

You found our ‘about us’ page – the one nobody usually reads! So, as you want to know, we’re a small friends and family-run business based in Essex. As is often the case with other suppliers, we started out as hobby mushroom growers. The more we learned, the more we got involved and the more we grew. Our main business is growing and selling mushrooms and growing supplies to local customers, but we decided to expand and offer growing supplies to online customers too.

Speaking to other people interested in growing mushrooms at home, we realised we could quite easily increase our stocks and start to supply other people wanting to start cultivating mushrooms.

Initially we plan to offer a fairly compact range of items and things like home grow kits, but we’ll expand our product line up over time and according to demand. Once we’ve built up sufficient spare stocks we’ll be adding things like liquid culture, colonised agar and any other items we think you might need to get going.

Setting up to grow on a larger scale?

If you’ve decided you want to start growing mushrooms on a larger scale to supply local demand, or even to sell online, we can offer help for those interested in bulk orders for grain and substrates. Products for bulk orders are generally processed on a per-order basis and not supplied from stock, so bulk orders will usually take a little longer to supply than simple orders, generally 3-4 days from time of order.

More than Essex Mushrooms

From chatting to friends and customers, we discovered that one or two had gone online at various times to read more about mushroom cultivation and ended up thoroughly confused by what they found. As well as professional advice they came across all sorts of varying suggestions (sometimes dubious) on the public forums many people confuse with sources of useful information. So, we helped to set up a simple advice website – www.growingmushrooms.co.uk which aims to provide information for mushroom growers, as well as this websitep. We hope you find it useful.