Hillside Gardens: Farm & Market

11/08/2025

We are now offering seasonal Polar White Oyster Mushrooms, grown in Newton County Mo 🍄🍄‍🟫

11/08/2025

Looking forward to tomorrow, we were blessed with both Shiitake mushrooms and some Oyster mushrooms, should be a lovely autumnal day in Webb City.

10/31/2025

Come stop by and see us!

10/31/2025

We look forward to serving the Webb City community for our first Saturday Market tomorrow, come see us from 9-12 :)

10/27/2025

This is cool!

In Denmark, a surprising and sustainable innovation is turning food waste and unused urban space into a thriving source of nutrition — mobile “mushroom kitchens” housed in retrofitted trucks. These parked vehicles operate in city neighborhoods and gather forest byproducts like wood chips, bark, and organic waste from sawmills or parks, using them as substrate to grow gourmet and medicinal fungi inside climate-controlled grow chambers.

Each mobile unit is fitted with humidity regulation, ventilation fans, and insulated interiors powered by solar panels on the truck’s roof. The interiors are designed like miniature vertical farms, stacked with trays or bags of inoculated substrate. Mycelium spreads through the medium, and within days or weeks, mushrooms like oyster, shiitake, or lion’s mane begin to fruit — all without synthetic chemicals or soil.

The mushrooms are then distributed to local restaurants, schools, or food co-ops, often within walking distance of the truck’s parking location. Community members are sometimes invited to workshops on cultivation, fermentation, or cooking, transforming the truck into a roving classroom and food lab.

Because the mobile mushroom kitchens are decentralized, they avoid the energy demands of large-scale farms and make use of Denmark’s circular economy goals — repurposing both space and waste. Beyond nutrition, they create urban jobs, reduce food transport emissions, and spark curiosity about fungi’s role in sustainable living.

These rolling fungi farms prove that in cities of the future, healthy food might just grow from the back of a truck — powered by the forest, driven by innovation.

10/15/2025

Loving Autumn’s slow progression 🍄‍🟫🍂

09/28/2025

Yum! It’s always fun to see what people create!

09/19/2025

09/16/2025

See you in Webb City tomorrow!

09/08/2025

We look forward to returning to Webb City Farmers Market tomorrow from 11-2 p.m!

09/06/2025

We had some little 🍄‍🟫 helpers today, thanks to everyone who came by today while at the for our first Saturday market!
We will be back in Webb City this coming Tuesday Sept 9 for the and look forward to introducing more 🍄‍🟫 to the area!

09/05/2025

We are excited to bring locally grown Shiitakes 🍄‍🟫 to tomorrow Saturday Sept 6th from 9 to noon :)