At Sporadical City Mushrooms we are passionate about cultivating delicious seasonal fungi for you, chemical free.
We work with local chefs around Naarm to provide the freshest local mushrooms you can find and sell direct to the public at farmers markets every weekend. We eliminate food waste from our farm and other local growers by working all excess produce into the plant-based mushroom products you love.
We offer delectable fresh medleys of seasonal oyster mushrooms wholesale and retail all year round along with richly flavoured Shiitake & sweet Lion’s Mane mushrooms. Our vegan OM XO Sauce and OMG Confit Mushrooms are firm favourites at markets and part of a growing range of gourmet SCM delicacies that you’ll love.
Small-scale & modular farming
Cultivating in modular farm units in an urban area means that we can build our farm incrementally, growing high yields of gourmet fungi in under-utilised spaces with a small footprint.
Low-food-mile
With our production based in Naarm (Melbourne), we offer a farm-to-fork option for our local community. Reducing excess CO2, packaging & cutting out the middle man, our mushrooms are picked fresh & for purpose.
Building food security
Cultivating a variety of edible fungus for our community in controlled spaces means that we can have a steady yield , ensuring a highly nutritious food source is available all-year-round.
Shared knowledge
We believe in education & skill sharing. Sharing knowledge around fungi helps connect communities to agriculture, their local ecology and build an open learning culture. See our range of workshops here
Circular Economy Solutions through Collaboration
Our ‘towards zero waste’ philosophy has helped shape our business and continues to lead us to exciting collaborations which promote a healthier business through circular solutions, benefiting our community and planet. Are you a chef or business interested in working with our mushrooms? Contact us for more information.
Sporadical City Mushrooms was founded by Julia Laidlaw in a little inner city rental in Naarm (Melbourne) back in 2018.
Over the past 6 years the business has grown thanks to Julia’s tenacity & creative collaborations with local chefs, food businesses and ecologists. Grounded by our towards zero waste ethic we now cultivate from a purpose built modular farm in repurposed shipping containers on the banks of the Darebin creek at Alphington.
From servicing only restaurants for the first few years we are now also at local farmers’ markets every weekend & are one of the best quality and most reliable sources of local seasonal gourmet mushrooms you can find. We enjoy offering fun fungi cultivation workshops and opportunities for people to learn more about fungi and their role in our local ecology in our Fungus Amongst Us walking workshops with Fungi4Land.
In addition to the immense fungi cultivation knowledge of Julia, our small but passionate team of fungi-lovers and creatives keeps the fungi blooming all year round, lovingly cultivating the growth of Sporadical City Mushrooms (like a bunch of legends) one mushroom at a time.
