NEW CSA: MUSHROOMS
Posted by Kate | Filed under News, Spring 2.0
Pink Oyster Mushrooms
Next year we will be incorporating oyster mushrooms into some of our vegetable CSAs. In the meanwhile, we have organised a once-off mushroom add-on to our existing vegetable CSA, next week.
Theo Oldjohn, who works for SEED (Schools Environmental Education and Development), has a small business he runs with a partner, cultivating different types of oyster mushrooms in Eerste Rivier. He grows them organically (non-certified), and grows King, pink and blue oyster mushrooms, as well as making a range of home preserves.
He is selling us a bulk order of pink and blue oyster mushrooms, and a mushroom chutney he makes (the mushrooms used are organic, but the other ingredients are not), at wholesale prices. We have split this into ’shares’, with each share consisting of 200g pink oyster mushrooms, 200g blue oyster mushrooms and one small jar of mushroom chutney. Each share costs R40, which is half to a quarter of what you would pay in the shops. The mushrooms will be available for pick-up at Jaqui Daya Food Store in Newlands next Tuesday. You do not have to be a member of the existing CSA to participate.
If you would like to buy a share (or shares!), please send us an email at kate@slowfoodcsa.co.za as soon as possible. Payment will be by EFT.
Otherwise, look forward to seeing the mushrooms in your CSA bag next year!
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