FUN! WOW! NEW MUSKOKA MUSHROOM & PLANT STORE WILL ALSO SELL FORAGED CRAFT GOODS, FISHING RODS AND MORE SKOKI BOYS WEAR
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
GRAVENHURST — Mike Eddy wants to get one thing straight first.
His new Muskoka Mushroom & Plant Store is not another pot shop.
“It’s got nothing to do with that.
“I’m selling gourmet mushrooms” — not magic mushrooms — next to one of several cannabis shops in town.
“No, it’s just sort of an odd thing,” which startled passers-by when his sign went up ahead of a May 1 Muskoka Road South planned opening.
“Gourmet mushrooms” is just one of his products that caught people’s eye — and garnered media attention.
“I’ll also have foraged items and things. Some merch, like Skoki Boys and stuff. Maybe a little bit of antiques as well,” says the 26-year-old.
“I’m a local guy from the Washago area. I just sell on my website. I’ve never had a storefront. I just sell from home and whatnot.”
Now he’s going from online to on main street.
His is the latest addition to the ever-evolving downtown Gravenhurst business landscape. A dearth of rental spaces forced his hand here.
“I’ve always wanted a storefront to put all my ideas in to one place for a while, yes. And Orillia isn’t my location, so I wouldn’t want to be there. But Washago, I would like to, but the lack of storefronts had me focus more on Gravenhurst.”
He already runs Gravenhurst Home and Cottage Cleaning, offering air B’n’B turnovers, cottage and carpet cleaning and his handyman services.
While a big sign in his window says he sells mushrooms, that’s only part of his story.
For about eight years he’s also run his fishing guide business from his home in Sparrow Lake, just south of Gravenhurst. Summer on the lakes and huts on the ice in winter.
“I make fishing videos and outdoor stuff and sell merchandise — Skoki Boys clothing, sweaters, hoodies and t-shirts.”
He’ll also have a few rods and bit of tackle for sale, he said in his latest Youtube video this week.
For the past three or four years, Eddy has added organic mushroom growing and selling from home and to restaurants, he added. But he didn’t want to say who his commercial customers were.
“I’ve been selling gourmet mushrooms for years, yeah.”
Eddy will be getting some help from some vendors, and like a friend who he said will also help supply him with mushrooms.
He’ll also sell tree branches, birch bark, pine cones and other non-consumable and “whatnots” meant for craft use, which he forages from “friends with property.”
Check out his latest Skoki Boys Youtube video announcing his “huge news.”
You can also reach him at 705-828-3688 or visit his website at https://muskokamushroomstore.ca/
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