SHROOM TOWN
GET READY FOR FALL FUN WITH FUNGI!
The crackle of fall air has officially entered our midst. Word on the ridgelines is this season has had a most impressive early flush of wild mushrooms, chief among them Lady Chanterelle. This week we celebrate all things mycelial. The duff is calling. Without mushrooms we would all be swimming in the accumulation of biomatter! If you haven’t read Cool Dark Places by Amber Autumn Leaves Huntsman, published by our local luminary and poet laureate Conner Bouchard-Roberts of Winter Texts, the time is nigh. Perhaps curled up next to a fire with a bowl of mushroom soup. The mycelia of our coniferous forests would be proud of you for doing so. Read on for the Fungus Amongus…
EARTHLY DELIGHTS - Fungi on the Porch
WA GROWN ORGANIC CASE DEALS - Apples & Pears
YOU BUTTER BELIEVE IT - Vital Farms Butter
LOCAL STEAK HOLDERS - New York & Ribeye
CHAGA RAGA - Calming Cacao
BLUE ANGEL - Bacon Blue Cheese Potato Salad
COMPOST SALE & MYCOMANIA - Cedar Grove Savings
OLY PEN FUNGI FESTIVAL - Meet a Fun Guy?
EARTHLY DELIGHTS
For the best locally foraged chanterelles, look no further than our very own produce porch. We have been getting consistent deliveries of fresh Chanterelles since Labor Day (!) this year, and the season is still in its stride! For locally cultivated mushrooms we have Lion’s Mane and various Oysters from Black Dog Mushrooms in Port Hadlock. We also stock plentiful Shiitakes from Organically Grown Company and Puget Sound Food Hub. If you need some dried options, we carry a “Wild Forest” mushroom melange and Organic Porcini mushrooms from Terra Dolce out of Eugene. We at the Corner are always reminding ourselves how amazing it is to be a part of this biome, where spectacular fungi abound.
WA GROWN ORGANIC CASE DEALS
APPLES
Ruby Jonathan - $25
Cortland - $25
Gala - $25
Macoun - $30
Snow Sweet - $30
McIntosh- $30
Red Ruben - $37.50
Idared - $31.50
Spartan - $31.50
Ambrosia - $31.50
Mountain Rose (pink-flesh!) - $56.25
Liberty (Solstice Farm) - $48
PEARS
Red/Green Bartlett - $6/5#
Hosui Asian Pear - $25/11#
Red/Green Bartlett - $26/25#
YOU BUTTER BELIEVE IT
For the month of October, take advantage of steep savings on Vital Farms grass-fed pasture-raised butter.
Did you know that Vital Farms is actually a collection of 300 smaller family farms? With all these mushrooms around you are going to need a fine medium for greasing your skillet! Or perhaps a nice pad to grace the top of your Chimacum Valley Grainery slice? The choice is yours.
Here are some more of our best savings this month:
And it doesn’t stop there!
This is just a collection of some of our favorite offers. Come by the store soon to see the full line-up of October deals.
LOCAL STEAK HOLDERS
For a real cadillac Sunday Dinner vibe, head to the locally pastured meat zone of our display freezer for choice cuts from Westbrook Angus and One Straw Ranch. Whether you pick up a New York Strip from Chuck and Julie, or a Ribeye from Charlotte and Martin, rest assured you are putting top quality, sensibly raised local meats on your plate. Lay some wild-foraged chanterelles alongside those steaks and live like the northwest junior general that you are. Perhaps even a dab or two of Karam’s garlic sauce to really turn the flavors up another notch!
CHAGA RAGA
Billed as “Hot Cocoa of Another Stripe,” get your Chaga on with the “Cocoa Raccoon” drink mix from Goodness Tea Farm out of Sequim. With Fair-Trade Cocoa, mesquite, maca, and cinnamon, this earthy elixir is sure to warm your belly on an autumn eve. Be sure to check out Shaelee’s other tea blends and healthy treats as well!
BLUE ANGEL
New from our astute Kitchen Team is a Bacon Blue Cheese Potato Salad.
Hearty and delectable, this red potato and bacon-based salad is packed with flavor from the addition of the earthy Blue Cheese. The perfect lunch side on a crisp full-sun fall day. Look for it on the shelve of the deli case today!
COMPOST SALE & MYCOMANIA
Now is the time to load your soil with a nice fall top-dressing of our line of composts! On sale now, Cedar Grove compost is buy two bags, get one free. For the creme de la creme, the biodynamic compost from Seacoast Compost is now on sale for buy one get one half off. It is ideal to apply compost to your garden in the fall, to give time for the new organic matter to be engaged with your existing soil ecology.
No gardener’s workshed is complete without a bag or can of a mycorrhizal product. New perennials (or annuals) planted with a sprinkle of mycorrhizae (and other beneficial soil microbes) in their new plot work together to create stronger root systems. We have small packs and also one pound cans of the granular mycorrhizae amendment from Plant Success Organics out in the greenhouse. We also have one-pound bags of ultrafine mycorrhizal inoculant from MycoApply. These products can also be incorporated into soil mixes for growing your own transplants in the spring. Unlock the symbiotic power of mycorrhizae to achieve new levels of lushness in your gardens!
Also, keep your eyes peeled for an End-of-Season Plant Sale in the Corner Nursery. Discounts will be individually marked on pots.
OLY PEN FUNGI FESTIVAL
A newsletter about mushrooms would be remiss not to mention the upcoming Oly Pen Fungi Festival, happening October 17-20 at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles.
Join a gathering of mycological enthusiasts to learn from cutting-edge figures in the field of mycology and partake in experiences surrounding the appreciation and awareness of fungi. Also, there is a great slate of fungi vendors tabling at the event all weekend! Tickets on sale now!
