Two sisters, a barn on Applesham Farm, and a grandparent's grocery name.
Caley Brothers grows oyster, native and specialty mushrooms in Lancing, West Sussex — and teaches everyone from first-time cooks to trade buyers how to grow their own.
Our Background
From a family grocery round to a purpose-built grow room.
The Caley Bros name comes from a grocery-delivery business our grandparents and uncle ran generations ago. When lockdown gave us the time to build something new, we brought the name back — this time growing the food ourselves, in a purpose-built room at Applesham Farm where light, humidity and airflow are all controlled by hand.
What started as bags of substrate in a Sussex barn has grown into a full grow-house supplying kits, fresh punnets and workshops across the country, without ever leaving the farm.
Mission & Vision
Make growing your own food feel achievable, not intimidating.
Teach by doing
Every kit and workshop is built so a total beginner succeeds on the first try — no jargon, no guesswork.
Native mushrooms, mainstream
We're pushing UK-native varieties like coral tooth and pioppino into home kitchens, not just tasting menus.
Small farm, honest answers
We grow what we sell, so when you call with a growing problem, you're speaking to someone who's solved it themselves.
What Makes Us Different
We're growers first — the shop came second.
Most kits sold in the UK are relabelled from a handful of large suppliers. Ours are inoculated and grown on-site at Applesham Farm, so we control quality from spawn to harvest — and can grow native varieties larger suppliers don't bother with.
We also show up: RHS Chelsea Flower Show, BBC Gardeners' World Live and RHS Hampton Court have all featured our edible growing displays, built alongside gardener Arit Anderson.