Our first bay bolete trees left the lab in March 2025, an exciting milestone for our mycoforestry work.
The bay bolete (Imleria badia) is a superb edible mushroom, which we are co-cultivating with Scots pine. This marks the world’s first field trials of its kind: our unique strain is already forming baby mushrooms in the lab, giving us strong confidence in its performance in the field.
We are currently supplying trees inoculated with a range of mushroom species to different locations across the UK.
In early December 2025, we travelled to England, where Professor Paul Thomas was working alongside Ruairi Hafferty Hay on his first PhD fieldwork. Slightly challenging in a storm, we collected numerous samples to support the monitoring of our newly out-planted mycoforestry trees.
Here is a link to some more details on our project. Get in touch if you are interested in starting your very own food forrest.