Sussex Grown · Est. 2020
Grow gourmet mushrooms at home, the way Sussex farmers do it.
Caley Brothers is a family grow-house on Applesham Farm supplying oyster, native and specialty mushroom kits, fresh spawn and hands-on workshops — RHS Chelsea gold-medal winning, and built for total beginners.
Why Growers Choose Us
Everything you need to grow with confidence, nothing you don't.
Beginner-proof kits
Every kit is tested on people who've never grown anything before. If it doesn't fruit in three weeks, we replace it.
Grown, not imported
Substrate is mixed and inoculated in our own barn at Applesham Farm — not shipped in from a supplier three counties away.
Real people on the phone
Ring us with a growing problem and you'll speak to someone who grew that exact variety this week.
Native & specialty varieties
Coral tooth, tarragon oyster, pioppino — species most growers can't get outside a handful of UK farms.
Workshops, not just kits
Learn the whole process in person at the farm, then keep growing long after the first kit runs out.
Trade & wholesale ready
Restaurants, farm shops and event caterers order fresh punnets and bulk spawn direct from the grow-house.
What We Do
From your kitchen counter to the farmers' market stall.
Three ways to work with Caley Brothers, depending on how deep you want to go.
Growing Kits
Ready-to-fruit buckets of oyster, lion's mane and native varieties. Mist twice a day, harvest within three weeks.
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Workshops
Small-group sessions at Applesham Farm and online, covering inoculation, fruiting and troubleshooting.
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Wholesale & Spawn
Fresh punnets, bulk substrate and grain spawn for farm shops, restaurants and other growers.
Enquire about trade →Grower Feedback
Three weeks from bucket to breakfast.
Mushrooms forming within days — I've never grown anything successfully before this.
The kids' kit turned my nephews into mushroom evangelists overnight.
Our farm shop now sells out of Caley Brothers punnets every Saturday.
Our Story
Started by two sisters, in a barn, during lockdown.
Caley Brothers began as a family grocery-delivery name passed down from a grandparent and uncle — revived on Applesham Farm to grow mushrooms most UK kitchens had never tried.
Since then we've taken our grow-at-home kits to RHS Chelsea, Hampton Court and Gardeners' World Live, and taught thousands of first-time growers that mushrooms are as easy as planting a broad bean.