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MycoPunks 2025 Christmas Roundup

Merry Christmas everyone -  or a happy Hannukah, cool Kwanzaa, or zesty Zarathosht Diso if that’s your preferred type of Sky Daddy. 2025 is a-drawin’ to a close, so we thought we’d round it off with a nice, heartwarming little blogarillo. Seemed appropriate. MycoPunks continues to be a cool place to work at. The customers continue to be cool customers. Mycology in general continues to be, and will always be, fucking super cool. We’d like to just take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you, for helping us to be able to keep running what we consider is a company that sells cool stuff, and does it in a non-exploitative way. You haven’t got to cut corners in either products, or the way you treat your staff in order to be successful, and the one thing we really want for Christmas is a new xbox is more companies to get on board with this way of thinking. Here’s a brief little recap of some things what we done did this year: Sponsor my nuts off We were the main sponsors of the amazing All Things Fungi festival, and ran the Community Mycology Tent, where we had a whole load of amazing guest speakers, and helped people to learn more about all facets of mycology, from creating bioluminescent nightlights to the challenges faced in running a company in this particular space! We also sponsored Pilzfestspiele in Austria, which is a seven day mushroom festival celebrating everything to do with mycology - from people using mycomaterials to build cool stuff, photographers, growers, the whole shebang. We sponsored the amazingly named Fungi Town which happens in Hay on Wye and is basically the entire town getting taken over by mushroom-related events - it’s damned cool, and you can have a look at their instagram here, if you like! We are also supporting various individuals through our Mycology partnership Programme, by supplying whatever bits and pieces they need, if they provide a logical project plan for us to have a look at - sounds good? Send an email to support@mycopunks.com and let’s chat! It’s for not for starting a business with, it’s for any mycology project with a defined spec - from research to growing mushrooms for community food, science experiments, whatever, we’d love to help you do something cool as long as it’s not-for-profit. Big ones and small ones We launched our new Flow units - and just to make sure everyone was spoiled for choice, we introduced brand new huge ones, and brand new smaller ones! When we started our own mycology journey, getting hold of an affordable flow unit was stupidly hard, so one of our main missions was to sort that out for everyone, and here we are - mission accomplished! Grow Academy We’ve helped Grow Academy to teach the young ‘uns how to grow mushrooms by providing a flow unit, grain, substrate, liquid cultures, all the stuff that we’re good at. This enables the kids to learn to grow a whole variety of mushrooms using different techniques, which is just the goddamned nicest thing ever to be able to do. Imagine if you’d had the opportunity to do something like this when you were a kid, would’ve been rad, right? We’re all still European We managed to finally sort out how to get shipping running again to our lovely fellow Europeans. This was yet another fun consequence of Brexit that literally everybody saw coming apart from the people that voted for it, so, uhhhh, thanks for all the extra work I guess, ya dingbats. Passports look shit now too you fuckers, but at least the NHS is fully-funded! What? What’s that? It was a lie? Oh fuck. Unicorn bags’ unicorn bags We became the exclusive UK distributor of Unicorn Bags! A partnership made in mushroom-growing heaven, your favourite bags and your favourite punks all together, saving you having to bother with all the bullshit customs charges. Goddamn, we’re good to ya. Back to basics We also released our own take on the ol’ Tesco blue-stripe value range with MycoPunks Basics, except unlike Tesco we actually pay our staff properly and Chris doesn’t get £10m a year in salary. We wanted to make sure we had a way of including as many people as possible in mycology because that’s kinda the whole point, and one of the easiest ways of doing that was to knock a bit of cash off. Every little (thing that you steal from Tesco) helps! So yeah, we’ve somehow achieved the impossible, become even more amazing, and the best bit is that next year we’re going to get even more fucking amazing because that’s who we are and what we do. Thanks so much for being part of it all, couldn’t have done it without ya. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year from all at MycoPunks!