07/31/2024
August 15 I’ll be presenting a zoom webinar and you’re all invited to hear the ins and outs of mushrooms and wildlife!
Join us Thursday August 15th to hear Matt Williams, owner of MycoHabitat, speak about-The Mycophagy of Whitetail Deer.
Join us as he delves into the depths of the secret world of deer and the mushrooms they consume; as well as their interconnectedness to fungi on many levels. Additionally we'll look at wildlife management implications in relation to a new understanding of our fungivore neighbors.
A little bit about Matt-
Matt runs a family business located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula just outside the Northeastern Wisconsin border. His family has owned a mushroom company for about ten years, and has extensive knowledge in growing mushrooms, organic gardening, and deer behavior. They focus on building mushroom food plots to help their customers meet their property management goals.
***WMS hosts monthly zoom lectures on the 3rd Thursday of each month for members. iNaturalist discussion begins at 6:30 pm. Featured presentations begin at 7:00 pm followed by Q&A. You must be a WMS member to get the link for the lecture. Not a member? Join here: https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/membership.html
06/01/2024
You may have noticed I have not posted foraging classes this year and if you attended the market this morning you didn’t see us. I’m gonna level with you, my body can’t take it anymore. Mushroom farming is extremely physically demanding and at 44, well I’m not as up to the task I was in my younger years. Beyond this, I have paid an awful toll from tick borne illnesses and every year is the worst tick year yet as a forager. Additionally, I have no infrastructure or utilities at the new property and my poor old truck can’t haul water anymore. So to be blunt, I’m retiring from mushroom farming and foraging for market.
Thank you all so very much for the many wonderful years and memories, our family will miss your smiling faces.
As for me (Matt), I have been increasingly busy with MycoHabitat I pray that continues to grow. Beyond that, I’m looking forward to weekends without markets and a more “normal” life with my family.
God bless you all, thank you again so very much.
05/20/2024
Hi gang, many of you know already that I’ve been working with wildlife and fungi more and more over the last few years. I’m happy to share this article and podcast with you all. Thank you all for the many years of supporting our family farm. Matt
Mushrooms Are a Deer's Secret Favorite Food. Here's How to Grow an Easy Mushroom Food Plot
Mushroom food plots prepared with wine cap mushrooms are surprisingly attractive to whitetail deer, turkeys, and other wildlife. Here's how to plant one.
05/18/2024
We’re behind Antonio’s in Iron mountain until 2 for the 4th grade lemonade day! Everything is 1$, please support our future entrepreneurs.
04/01/2024
After years of request we are finally selling shrooms. That’s right we will now be selling magic trippy mushrooms at the farmers market.
03/05/2024
If you’re searching for Mushrooms and Deer. Please go to the MycoHabitat page. Matt
Home of the Mushroom Food Plot
We've worked long and hard to finally say we own land to study and perfect mushroom food plots. We combine years of organic farming, mushroom farming, and whitetail deer observations to study this fascinating area.
02/14/2024
Happy v day gang!
Happy Valetines day to you all from Matt's Wild Foods!
01/10/2024
This has been many years in the making.
No more farming leased ground for us!
It’s official, the new farm is ours!
Thank you lord.
11/22/2023
Always, always, always be positive or do not consume your pickings! Be safe gang.
Foraging? Mushroom Poisonings on the Rise
With parts of the U.S. seeing an uptick in poisonings from foraged mushrooms, a UH doctor advises people to get their mushrooms from the grocery store.
11/12/2023
Congratulations Bobcats!
BREAKING: Florence County School District football takes down Thorp Cardinals HS Football 32-30 to win their first state championship in school history.
10/31/2023
We’re proud to be nominated in the “farmers market vendor” category of Iron Mountain’s best of the best list! We would appreciate your votes now through November 12th.
Check out Shiitake Creek.
Daily through November 12!
10/23/2023
Hmmmm, which ones best on a bratwurst?
Wisconsin is choosing a Wisconsin State Mushroom! Lawmakers currently have a selection, but we want to know YOUR thoughts. Our neighbor Minnesota already has Morchella Escuelenta as their state mushroom, so... as much as we love morels, perhaps we can do something different than every other state around us. Along with that you may look at the entire State Mushroom List here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_mushrooms
You will find Cantharellus are also very popular. We would like to find something that is edible, common, not going to make people sick, and a mushroom Wisconsin can be proud of. Something that nobody else has picked, and a mushroom that makes us DISTINCTIVE, because as Wisconsinites, we are truly unique.
Vote Here NOW!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBkVpjLiV09G9kgyLT41VcW177ZmIpNm73AY8SYRsVPG_tqQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
10/16/2023
I was blessed to take my fungal soapbox to the Rooted Wisconsin studio recently and chat with Brad Zima. Be sure to head over and smash the like button on their content gang!
Matt Williams - Mushroom Food Plots, Fungi, and Mycology | Rooted Wisconsin Podcast | Ep.#5
Matt Williams is a mushroom expert, organic farmer, business owner, hunter, and an adventure sports guide. His excitement about his new business, creating mu...
10/13/2023
This is it, the last Iron Mountain Downtown Farmers & Artisans Market of the season. Of course we’ll have some amazing mushrooms with us for the fair well ending. See ya soon
10/12/2023
To all of you, who like us, work in the elements regardless of them, slave away long and grueling hours and despite the ups and downs keep on going long after any reasonable person would quit. Thank you for the food that sustains us all! God bless our farm friends and neighbors.
Thank You Farmers!
We appreciate You! 👩🌾
10/07/2023
Chestnuts are back! Matt will be attending the Iron Mountain Downtown Farmers & Artisans Market with a diverse offering from the farm. Shiitake, nameko, combstooth and… mukitake aka olive oysterling which has a chicken of the woods texture and a divine umami flavor.
09/26/2023
Autumn is the mush-roomiest season of all! Here’s a few of the beautiful mushrooms we’ll have this weekend for you at the Iron Mountain Downtown Farmers & Artisans Market. Olive oysterling aka mukitake, this mushroom from Asia is very much like chicken of the woods in texture and tastes divine! Nameko is still ticking along and the highest quality shiitake known as cold weather strains are beginning to appear too. The next big rain will likely pop the mother lode of all of these delights.
09/20/2023
If you’re local you know Jason Asselin. If you follow us, you know he’s a part of our farm family and the local mushroom community.
He’s also, an incredibly wonderful friend, who has a great heart and goes out of the way to help folks. Well, he helped us in a huge way recently! Here’s the link to the video.
Giving Away & Review $1,000+ YOLANESS SAPY 1600 Portable Power Plant & Solar Panel! | Jason Asselin
When Yolaness reached out to me about reviewing one of their portable power plants I knew what I needed to do.. GIVE IT AWAY to someone who really needed one...
09/20/2023
Nameko (pronounced Nahm-ah-ko) is the cornerstone of Miso soup, the natural viscous gel on the caps give this dish it’s signature viscosity. Beyond miso, this mushroom is worshipped in South-Eastern Asia and prized as an equal to or more desirable fungi than truffles and morels. This mushroom is at home in nearly every soup, in every stir fry, curry or Thai dish. And yes it’s equally as good sautéed and served with a protein!
We will have this beautiful fungus with us this weekend for you. See ya Saturday!
09/16/2023
We’re here at the Iron Mountain Downtown Farmers & Artisans Market this morning until noon or we sell out with some absolutely gorgeous fresh mushrooms. Hope to see you here! 🍄❤️
09/14/2023
Jason Asselin has been helping us for a decade plus at the farm. He was there in the produce days at Wisber Farm, he’s been at Shiitake Creek since day 1, and he’s been at MycoHabitat from day 1 too.
He’s so much more than a farm helper, he’s a great human and an amazing friend.
A few days ago he asked me to help him review a portable power supply he was given from Yolaness. So we unboxed it and took it out to the new logyard to see how it works and then he says “glad you like it, this one is yours…”
He’s been borrowing me one all year to use, without it I could not produce mushrooms out there….
Now it just got a whole lot more doable!!
Thank you so much J and Yolaness. This is truly incredible and we’re so thankful.
God bless you
I spent the day with Matt from MycoHabitat testing and reviewing this new Yolaness Sapy 1600 Portable Power Plant along with the 280w solar panel. After completing the review which consisted of making a pot of coffee in the woods, pumping water using 2 pumps at the same time and also using the solar panels I told Matt they were his..
Yes I GAVE AWAY my brand new Yolaness power plant and the solar panel to help Matt on his mushroom farm! You should have seen his face.. He won't have to borrow my other units anymore.
You'll have to watch for that video soon posted on my YouTube channel! I'll be sure to share a link here.
09/02/2023
We’re here at the Iron Mountain Downtown Farmers & Artisans Market with plenty of the delicious chicken of the woods. We came with more variety but the early birds sold us out this morning! We’ll be downtown across the street from the library until 12 or we sell out.
08/31/2023
Listen to Dr. John’s advice! Join us and all of these wonderful local vendors at our markets. Eat local and brush your choppers.
Want to eat healthy AND benefit your smile? 🦷 These produce items are excellent for vitamins and minerals, packed with anti-oxidents, anti-fungal, anti-microbial, anti-bacterial, and/or anti-viral properties! 💥 Take this list with you to shop your local farmers market and stock up! Not sure where your local market is held? There's
🛒 Iron Mountain Downtown Farmers & Artisans Market on Saturday mornings across from the Dickinson County Library and Moose Jackson...We know Shiitake Creek can definitely help you with the mushrooms!
🛒 Aurora, WI Farmers Market on Thursday mornings out by the Aurora City Hall and NWTC...or take a drive to F***h for
🛒 Slagle's Family Farm is open Wednesdays 3-7pm and Saturdays 10am-4pm.
🛒 Anyone have recommendation for other markets going on in the area?
08/28/2023
Welcome to the new Shiitake Creek logyard at the MycoHabitat research farm site.
It’s been a ton of work to get to this starting again point, but we’ve finally completed the move.
08/17/2023
As always, we'll be at the Iron Mountain farmers market this Saturday with the freshest and most delicious cultivated and wild mushrooms you can buy.
We still have room for adventurous guests in our foray this Saturday from 1-4 in Iron Mountain, but our September dates are filling quickly. Register here: https://myco-habitat.com/products/august-19th-2023-wild-mushroom-foray?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard&utm_medium=product-links&utm_content=web
Thank you as always for your never ending support of our small business!
August 19th, 2023 Wild Mushroom Foray
Come join us for our wild mushroom foray scheduled for Saturday August 19th from 1-4 in the Iron Mountain area. Matt will lead you through the forest and show the tips and tricks to identify and find in season edible wild mushrooms. The best part, you get to keep what you find on mother nature's tre...
08/11/2023
Even though Italian fest will be happening in downtown Iron Mountain tomorrow, the market is still on! We will be there as usual with plenty of mushrooms and smiles.
We had so much fun last weekend on our first foray with such a great group. We're constantly impressed by the interesting, curious, and fun people that choose to attend our forays. The foray scheduled for tomorrow is sold out, but there is still plenty of availability for next Saturday the 19th from 1-4 as well as the remaining forays. Registration can be done here: https://myco-habitat.com/products/august-19th-2023-wild-mushroom-foray
Mush Love!
August 19th, 2023 Wild Mushroom Foray
Come join us for our wild mushroom foray scheduled for Saturday August 19th from 1-4 in the Iron Mountain area. Matt will lead you through the forest and show the tips and tricks to identify and find in season edible wild mushrooms. The best part, you get to keep what you find on mother nature's tre...
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