Robin Mercy

Robin Mercy grows gourmet and medicinal organic mushrooms in Kaslo, BC. As founder and sole proprietor of Mr. Mercy’s Mushrooms, he supplies restaurants, retailers and herbalists throughout the West Kootenays. In his work he combines high and low tech approaches to cultivation, doing both sterile lab work and creating outdoor fungal landscapes. He is inspired by the local ecosystem, foraging for wild mushrooms and identifying new candidates for cultivation. He has studied mushroom growing with Ja Schindler at Fungi for the People in Oregon and Brian Callow at What the Fungus in Summerland.