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Madcap Mushrooms

Agricultural Season
“Madcap means amusingly eccentric which is exactly what mushrooms are, and we bring this same energy to the market! We have an enthusiasm for our product that gets people excited about eating mushrooms.”
— Blake and Lindsey Goldberg, Madcap Mushrooms
A dense flush of oyster mushrooms erupting from an open Madcap Mushrooms grow-your-own kit box on a kitchen table.
A grow-your-own kit in full flush. The boxes fruit within days of opening.

What You’ll Find at Our Booth

Fresh and dried gourmet mushrooms — oysters in several strains, including king blue, black pearl king and mother of pearl, plus lion's mane, shiitake, enoki and chestnut. They also sell grow-your-own kits that fruit on a kitchen counter within days of opening, and Madcap shirts.

Gourmet mushrooms grown year-round including oyster, lion's mane, and other specialty varieties. Also offers mushroom grow bags for home cultivation, branded merchandise, and a Winter CSA program delivering fresh mushrooms weekly for 12 weeks from January through April. Hosts workshops on gourmet mushroom growing.

About

Blake and Lindsey Goldberg have been growing gourmet mushrooms since 2021, when the whole operation lived inside a 400-square-foot tiny home. It didn't stay that size for long — as Blake puts it, the house belonged to the mushrooms and they were just paying the rent. After he retired from the Air Force in 2022 the couple settled in Vermont, and Madcap Mushrooms LLC followed in January 2024. They now grow at Micro Myco Farm in North Ferrisburgh, and run a twelve-week winter CSA and hands-on growing workshops alongside the market booth.

Adapted from madcapmushroom.com

Lindsey Goldberg at the Madcap Mushrooms market booth, beside painted toadstool decorations and the farm banner.
Lindsey Goldberg at the booth

People

Blake and Lindsey Goldberg, Owners and operators

Location

North Ferrisburgh, Vermont

At the market since

First season

Website

madcapmushroom.com

Follow

@madcapmushrooms

More from Madcap Mushrooms

A large lion's mane mushroom held up outdoors, its white spines catching the sun.
Lion’s mane, fresh cut.
Blake Goldberg looking over a wooden crate of mushrooms with handwritten variety labels: King Blue Oyster, Black Pearl King Oyster, Mother of Pearl Oyster and Lion's Mane.
Blake with the week’s varieties.
Oyster mushrooms fruiting from substrate blocks on wire shelving, beside a Madcap Mushrooms T-shirt.
Oysters fruiting on the shelf.
An opened grow-your-own kit showing the colonised substrate block inside, with fruiting instructions printed in the lid.
The same kit on day one, with fruiting instructions in the lid.
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