The Menu: Ballyhoura mushrooms and Achill Lamb among tasty offers
Lucy Deegan and Mark Cribben of Ballyhoura Mushrooms in the Shitake mushroom growhouse. Picture: Dan Linehan
Ballyhoura Mushrooms, one of The Menu’s most favourite of all food producers and suppliers of magnificent Irish mushrooms, both cultivated and foraged from the wild, have just launched a most wonderful offer of 1kg of exquisite wild chanterelles delivered to your door anywhere in the country with post and packaging all-inclusive in the price tag of just €30 — a bargain for such a bounty. These are the very same mushrooms they also supply to some of the finest restaurants in the land including Michelin-starred Liath and Aimsir. But what really seals the deal for The Menu is the acorn of native Irish Sessile Oak included in each pack with customers encouraged to plant and nurture said acorn for two years after which Ballyhoura Mushrooms will invite the growers in autumn 2022 to come and transplant their adopted tree in a new native Irish forest development project which they currently have in tow. This is a most timely and telling rejoinder indeed to Coillte, the State’s purported national forestry management body, as it blindly pursues an ecologically destructive monoculture policy of mass-planting non-native conifers.
