Do you know that eating mushrooms can lower your cholesterol? And mushrooms have anti-aging, slimming properties and can also enhance your brain power? Well this is what I learnt when I visit Myco Mushroom Farm @ Seletar Farmway West last Sun.

My parents love to eat mushrooms and had been wanting to visit this mushroom farm for a long time. Decided to bring them there on Sunday to see how mushrooms are grown locally and also to buy some fresh mushrooms from the farm.

Everbloom mushroom farm used to occupy the current site where Myco Farm is. Everbloom had cease operations and had invested a 25% stake in Myco. One of the staff brought us and 2 other families on a tour around the farm. FOC tours are conducted on every sat and sun on a hourly basis from 10 am to 4 pm.

The mushrooms were stored in these barn-like air-conditioned and humility controlled buildings there.

The mushrooms are grow on these logs that are packed with sawdust and some sort of nutrients and placed on shelves in these barn

Mushrooms had medicinal properties. This is the Monkey Head Mushroom. It helps to improve one’s brain power when taken.

Rows of Monkey Head Mushrooms growing from logs on the shelves

We walked out of this barn and entered another one where Shitake Mushrooms are cultivated. Shi means Pine and Take means Mushrooms in Japanese. Shitake mushrooms were grown on pine logs in Japan. That’s how the name shitake comes about.

The white ’spots’ you see on the shitake mushrooms are not mould. It’s the mushroom spores which are very good for your body.

Freshly plucked mushrooms are best consumed within 7 days. Afterwhich, the good nutrients and stuff died and what you are eating are just fibre.

Shitake mushrooms have anti-aging properties. It also helps to tones up one’s muscle and burns away fats (these are what the staff there told us lah)

The 3rd barn we went into is where white and black oyster mushrooms are cultivated

Here’s some White Oysters Mushrooms

The staff had just harvest baskets and baskets full of White Oysters Mushrooms

These are the Black Oysters Mushrooms… Aren’t they pretty to look at?

Rows of Black Oysters Mushrooms

Close up of a bunch of Black Oysters Mushrooms

Black and White Oysters Mushrooms growing side by side They looked lovely

And I think they looked like bunches of flowers to me

Little White Oyster Mushrooms sprouting out of these man-made ‘logs’

Mushrooms (shown below) which sprout from the sides of these man-made ‘logs’ are considered as second grade mushrooms. They are used as ingredients for soup bases.

These are called Willow Mushrooms. One of its medicinal properties is it reduce water retention and swelling in the body. It also aid the recovery of bruises. Those mushrooms that are covered in white below had mould growing on it. And such mushrooms are not edible.

We went back to their packing room where all the mushrooms are packed and ready to be delivered to the supermarkets. The staff told us that mushrooms sold at the supermarkets are at least 2 days old due to transportation and logistics matters. So if we want fresh mushrooms, we can buy directly from them at the farm. Best time to get it is at before 2-3 pm daily where all the freshly harvested mushrooms are packed.

I bought 150gm of Monkey Head Mushrooms ($4.50) and 500gm of Shitake Mushrooms ($9). My parents bought the 3-in-1 Mushroom pack (comprising of Black and White Oyster Mushrooms and Willow Mushrooms - $10/pack)

eh they dun have any eatery or cafe there at all... but they do charge $2/pax if you want them to organise group tours. And a cooking demo would be included where everyone can have a taste of the mushrooms cooked onsite

Ah! I went there once on a school outing years ago. The air is kept at 15 degree celsius if my memory didn't failed me. Once a mushroom with mould growing on it is spotted, won't it spread to the neighbouring mushrooms? The workers there do not get rid of it

9 Seletar West Farmway 5
Singapore 798057

Phone: 65. 6773 0377
Fax: 65. 6773 1766

it's super ulu... i din even know such a place existed until we drove into seletar farmway west... lotsa farms there... mainly orchid farms and this animal farm resort... it's a totally diff place once you are inside this area.... it's like being transported to a diff country or world ... the mushroom farm dun have any shuttle service at all. And it's not easy to spot this farm too. It's a maze of roads and farms once you are in Seletar Farmway West....

yup.. we also 'dropped' in after our visit to that animal resort... but FOC tours are only conducted on Sat & Sun from 10 am to 4 pm at the hour eg 10am, 11 am, 12 noon ... so if you arrive at 10.25 you have to wait till 11 am for the next tour.... the staff there are very very friendly

yeh.. and you can couple it in with a visit to the animal resort too which is nearby

yeh.. still processing the pics... will be posting them later... there is a home-styled cafe run onsite at the animal resort... there are goats, turkeys, swan, ducks, rabbits, hamsters, dogs, cats, peacocks, some other type of birds which I dunno their name... and fishes... my mom said it reminds her of her childhood days when she was still staying in a kampong...