Grow-at-home kits
Everything needed to grow gourmet mushrooms indoors, made in small batches on the farm.
About our kitsWest Sussex mushroom farm
Grow mushrooms at home. Learn from a working Sussex farm.
Caley Brothers is a small mushroom farm at Applesham Farm, near Lancing, run by sisters Jodie Bryan and Lorraine Caley. We make grow-at-home kits, run workshops in person and online, and supply fresh mushrooms and kits to markets and wholesalers.
- Exhibitors at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, BBC Gardeners’ World Live and RHS Hampton Court
- Over eight gold and platinum medals for mushroom exhibits*
- Collaborations with Kew Gardens, the Tate Modern and the RHS*
- Authors of the book Project Mushroom
Why people choose us
Grown on a farm, taught by the people who grow them.
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Grown in a controlled room
Our mushrooms are grown in bags in a purpose-built barn room at Applesham Farm, where light, humidity and airflow are controlled.
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Kits for indoors and outdoors
Grow-at-home kits come in a range of varieties, including oyster, lion’s mane, shiitake and coral tooth.
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Learn the process
We run mushroom-growing workshops in person and online, plus seasonal masterclasses.
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Circular economy thinking
We work with natural waste streams, turning them into growing substrates and giving materials a second life.
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Made for shops and schools
Boxed kits for retailers, plus school and community packages for classroom and group projects.
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Family roots
The name comes from a grocery delivery business run by the sisters’ grandparents and uncle Bill.
*As stated by Caley Brothers on its own website.
What we do
Three ways to start.
Whether you want to grow, learn or stock mushrooms, there is a route in.
Workshops and masterclasses
Learn how mushrooms grow, in person at the farm or online with us.
About workshopsTrade and wholesale
Retail-ready boxed kits and fresh mushrooms for shops, markets and wholesalers.
About tradeOur story
Two sisters, a barn, and a family name.
Jodie and Lorraine grew up in Surrey surrounded by home-grown food. They bought mushroom spawn, started growing, and when lockdown happened began developing grow-at-home kits and moved the business to Lancing.
The sisters are the Caley Brothers because their grandparents and uncle Bill ran a grocery delivery business under that name, and the sisters kept it as a nod to that food-growing legacy.
Read our story