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The Mushroom Cap and The Growing Tree are two businesses within the same building at 114 W State Street in Kennett Square. The Mushroom Cap features Fresh Mushrooms, Gifts, Collectibles and a Mushroom Exhibit featuring the original Phillips Mushroom Museum pieces. The fresh mushrooms are in a cooler in the back room - please come in - we really do have fresh mushrooms - we also have great mushroom food products. We have Kennett Square dried shiitake, oyster and maitake mushrooms. We have a variety of mushroom powders that are prepared in house! We have Kennett Square Potpourri (what is that?) - a souvenir like no other! Cookbooks, jewelry, aprons, postcards, mugs, etc. Be sure to ask for your free pound of button mushrooms when you spend $10.

Tomorrow I will ship the April Mushroom of the Month Club feature - 2 lbs. of fresh maitake to four recipients. One to PA, one to DC and two to NY. Also shipping a 3 lb. box of large white mushrooms for stuffing to someone in Charlotsville, VA.

The Growing Tree features women's (street level) and children's (lower level) consignment clothing. We've just added the women's clothing and accessories two weeks ago. Inventory includes Vera Bradley, Coach, Liz, Ann Taylor Loft, Chicos, Dress Barn just to name a few. Several items have arrived New With Tags! See the red dress on the manequin? It sold yesterday - Ralph Lauren!

Hope to see you soon!

Easy marinated button mushrooms

Have you ever tried Garlic Expressions Salad Dressing on mushrooms?
Cloves of garlic await you. Cut the stems of several pounds of button mushrooms to make them perfect little buttons. Blanch (not sure how to do this? - search "how to blanch vegetables) them for about 1 minute - drain - place mushrooms in glass bowl - pour the whole bottle of Garlic Expressions over the mushrooms. Refrigerate. Quick and delicious way to serve white button mushrooms that are soooooo good for us! Vitamin D - white mushrooms and breast cancer, white mushrooms and prostate cancer - do your research. Mushrooms are the only plant life that have Vitamin D.

Too long to wait at Longwood Gardens

Had lots of visitors to The Mushroom Cap this weekend - From Columbia, MD, Baltimore, MD, Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA, York, PA, Media, PA and beyond.
Found it interesting that two people stopped by after having a bite to eat at one of Kennett Square's fine restaurants. They came to KSQ to eat! The Terrace Restaurant at Longwood Gardens had a 1 1/2 hour wait today. Does everyone know that downtown KSQ is only 2 miles from Longwood Gardens? Why wait to eat?
Too hot too soon? Not for those who wanted to grill marinated portabellas - had two guys come to town on motorcycles - stopped in for ports yesterday - were taking them back to Philadelphia for their dinner. This just reminded me of the four young people who came to The Mushroom Cap a few years ago. They arrived at Toughkenamon airport and hitched a ride to The Mushroom Cap to buy mushrooms to take back to Washington, DC for their dinner. How adventurous is that?

Morels arrived today

Morels are available - not let's see who is reading my blog! These are the best morels that I have ever had at The Mushroom Cap. Have you seen this t-shirt? Gotta love it!

More visitors from England today!

I am going to start taking pictures of our visitors - hopefully they will let me share them with you. Three young ladies from England visited The Mushroom Cap today and were in awe of being in a room filled with mushrooms! They will be in the area for 10 days - going to NYC for a few days - lucky them! They bought KSQ post cards to send back home.

At the end of the day someone came in to buy my fresh mushroom salad! She couldn't resist telling me about her niece going to Paris, France for a convention having to do with tourism where she was receiving an award. What she thought would be interesting to me was that on the menu at the dinner was a course serving: "world known Kennett Square, PA mushrooms". The niece couldn't resist telling her aunt! Gotta love it Kennett Square! We are on the map!

A peek - at mushroom picking!

Today I received a couple of pictures that were taken at The Mushroom Cap's mushroom exhibit over the weekend. The photographer was nice enough to send them to me. One was of our model of a mushroom growing facilty - the other is here. Isn't this a great picture? The mushroom tour starts here!

Today we had visitors from London on their way to Hershey, PA. They came via Philadelphia and decided that fresh mushrooms would be the perfect gift. Our 3 lb. mixed box (2 portabellas, medium whites, crimini, shiitake, oyster and 4 large white stuffing mushrooms)was the perfect choice. When I asked them to sign our guest book they were amazed at where from around the world people have come from - felt like they were our next door neighbors in comparison! Wow!

It's April, It's Spring - Eat Mushrooms!

For those of you who are following my blog - I've been doing facebook and twitter. Still have a lot to learn but I am amazed at how the networking works! I did invite Michelle Obama and her family to Kennett Square, PA to visit a mushroom farm. I commend her for having a garden at the White House but mushrooms cannot grow in her garden. The girls have learned to eat some veggies from seeing how they grow. Maybe they will come to the Annual Mushroom Festival in September and go on a farm tour! I hope they are eating mushrooms! I'll let you know if the Obama's come to town.

Today we had visitors from several different places - MI, NJ, DC, MD, WV, Western PA, Manhattan and Long Island NY, DE and beyond. Do you have morels? Maybe - will find out on Monday. How many would you like?

Now here is a story - today a mother and her son came to The Mushroom Cap looking for Maitake liquid. Just got an order in on Tuesday. The young man was just diagnosed with cancer of the salivary gland. Because his grandmother had stage 4 lung cancer, having gone through an operation, chemo, etc. and finally taking maitake and is in remission, Mom wanted to start her son on Maitake right away.
Do your own research. My husband and I take Maitake tablets every day hoping to keep the yin and the yang in our bodies balanced. Mushrooms were put on this earth for a reason! Be sure to eat them. Fresh maitake mushrooms are delicious. Just saute them in butter or olive oil with garlic.