About Classic City Gourmet Mushrooms

Before there was a Classic City Gourmet Mushrooms, there was a garden. Before there was a gardener, there was a soldier yearning for life in all its complexity.

I am Sara Skinner and I am a mushroom farmer. Once upon a time I wore a uniform and spent years traveling to places nice and not so nice. After returning home from the desert for the last time all I wanted was to sink my feet and hands into rich brown dirt and be surrounded by living and growing things. I nurtured one unruly garden after another over the years and learned to find joy in all the forms of life that move in when you make space. Frogs, toads, snakes, dragonflies, bees, wasps, spiders, birds, bats, worms, ladybugs, fruit, flowers, weeds, and of course the mushrooms.

Mushrooms are wonderous things. Not plants, not animals, but a wholly separate thing. They arrive after a rain and are gone almost as fast as you notice their presence. They come in strange and delicious varieties that go far beyond what can be found in the produce aisle. My farm is very small and I am very much a mushroom student. But I hope to share what I learn as well as what I grow.

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