Mushroom Masters Australia seeks to be a sustainable and eco-friendly entity. While we have to use some forms of energy that we would prefer to obtain from more sustainable sources, for the moment we are looking to scale our business towards a smaller carbon footprint and therefore, a more ecologically viable and globally safer operation.

However, one of the best aspects of our industry, is that we can offer our ‘waste,’ which is solidified sawdust and mycelium, to the wider community for use in gardens, veggie patches and even around trees, shrubs and bushes. We literally use about 100 blocks a week in our mushroom production and by the time we have finished fruiting them, the blocks are still powerfully full of nutrients and goodness essential for gardens, trees and other plants to thrive in our sandy and unwelcoming soil.

Basically, mycelium is the carbon carrying and communication network of our trees, plants and guess what else??? BEES! Read this: Paul Stamets and Bees

Bees eat mycelium to replace and control gut bacteria, boost immunity and a host of other benefits, it is also mixed into the fluids some beekeepers provide their hives to ensure the bees are healthy. While we are not experts in this field, please feel free to look up this amazing fact on your browser and enjoy the feeling of satisfaction we get, every time we recycle one of our blocks into a compost heap, soil, potting mix and other gardening applications.

If you have bought one of our home grow kits, make sure you break up the block when it is finished flushing and spread it around your veggie garden bed. We did this and without replanting (we were waiting for Spring) tomato plants we had two years prior, sprung back up and are going great guns!

We offer these blocks for a reasonable price (minimum purchase 40 blocks) and we can make them available most days to collect (except weekends before 2:00pm). We can deliver for a fee.

So how about giving your garden a supercharge from nature and helping us to reduce our throw-away waste? Send us a message via our Contact Us page and we will reach out to you.

As a footnote: We send all the plastic used for growing to a recycle depot to be used in making new plastic items. As soon as we are able, we have an idea for a revolutionary plastic free way to fruit our mushrooms, but it’s all hush-hush for now…