Ingredients

Five things make a Mabberley's mushroom: English oak, barley straw, chalk-filtered water, cool valley air, and time. Nothing else gets in.

Ingredients

Five things make a Mabberley's mushroom: English oak, barley straw, chalk-filtered water, cool valley air, and time. Nothing else gets in.

English oak

Hardwood substrate from managed English woodland — slow food for slow mushrooms.

Barley straw

Clean English straw, pasteurised in-house before every grow.

Chalk-filtered water

Drawn from the same downs that feed the River Lambourn.

Cool valley air

Grown slowly at low temperature for dense, heavy flesh.

Time

Nothing forced. Each crown takes the weeks it takes.

What we don’t use

Accelerants

Synthetic substrate

Long-haul refrigeration

Plastic punnets

Cargo holds

Cold storage

Air freight

Middlemen

Six-day-old stock

Notes from the valley

A short letter when the seasons turn — what’s fruiting, and which kitchens are serving it.

Notes from the valley

A short letter when the seasons turn — what’s fruiting, and which kitchens are serving it.

Notes from the valley

A short letter when the seasons turn — what’s fruiting, and which kitchens are serving it.