Mushrooms have taken off in popularity in the past few years, and P.E.I.-based fungi forager René Lombard has seen it happen first-hand.
“I do more foraging walks and cultivation workshops, which is all outdoors,” said Lombard, who’s known on social media as The Red Island Mushroom Hunter.
But now, along with her friend Jon Zuccolo, Lombard has begun to branch out in a new direction. The duo are assembling and selling do-it-yourself mushroom-growing kits.
“It’s been a bit of a journey to get here. For me, this was not an immediate progression,” Lombard said. “Because of the boom and the interest in mushrooms at the moment,
