Swamp Fox Fungi empowers people to grow with fungi. Through Education, Cultivation assistance, and a thriving community.
Meet Cole - Owner, Swamp Fox Fungi
“Swamp Fox”
Swamp Fox Fungi helps people grow mushrooms, understand fungi, and bring fungal systems into their homes, gardens, and communities.
I’m Cole, a self-taught mycologist with a B.S. in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, working out of Jacksonville, Florida. This brand is part lab, part garden, part classroom, and part community — built to make fungi easier to understand and easier to work with.
Swamp Fox Fungi began with roots in Maine and is now growing in Jacksonville, Florida. I’m newer to this region, but I’m treating that as part of the work.
Florida is not a copy-and-paste mushroom environment. The heat, rain, bugs, humidity, sandy soil, and suburban sprawl all shape how fungi behave here. Swamp Fox Fungi is building a regional field lab around those realities: testing new species, grow methods, garden systems, and ways fungi can help people reconnect with food and soil.
“Swamp Fox” has two roots for me:
Historically, Francis Marion’s legacy of leading people through The Swamps in The American Revolution constantly evading the British and giving them hell with early Guerilla Warfare techniques.
(I don’t condone war at all; I want to lead us into a Ecologically Powered Revolution)
To me though, my Grandfather is the TRUE Swamp Fox. An Army Veteran, and professional Semi-Truck Driver, he was nicknamed Swamp Fox by his peers for his abilities to navigate the roads anywhere along the East Coast, but especially around/below The Mason Dixon Line. He still is my biggest inspiration , his steady, quiet leadership and wisdom shaped how I work today. He is the one who got my hands in soil and believing in myself.
With these two guiding points, and my desire to teach everyone I can how to grow fungi and connect to the natural world. Spore by spore the future becomes more Fungal where we can eat better, create better soils, create better building materials, run true ecologically sustainably growing systems, and more than anything creating a more Diverse and Sustaining Future for those who come after US.
Because whether We as People are here or not, the Fungi will continue.
What Does the Logo Mean?
From the description of Swamp Fox Fungi, you can see where I got the Fox.
The 9 Tails? Looking into the Kitsune Fox, a Japanese Folklore Fox that is capable of growing up to 9 tails. With each they garner a new supernatural/magical ability. They get these tails over time and gained wisdom. I took that and gave them Mushrooms because with each new species you can cultivate, identify, work with, is like developing a new supernatural power of independence, delicious food and improved systems.
The colors? These are pretty simple. I am a Ginger, so Orange is naturally my favorite color. Blue; because there’s a magical mushroom that produces Blue colors that changes lots of peoples minds or gets them into Fungi/different ways of life.
Myceliate Tomorrow
To “Myceliate”
is to form deep, supportive connections that evolve over time like mycelium does in nature. By connecting now, growing and evolving together with Mycelium, we can shape a better more resilient, Tomorrow.
fungal Focused Future
It’s clear the world is in need of some added assistance whether it comes to health, food, soils, remediation, building supplies, or just community!
So lets Grow Together, and Myceliate Tomorrow
Proven Process, Flexible Execution
We are not here to tell you one way is the only way. Not to tell you something Can’t Be Done.
Cultivation and Fungi are flexible arts once you can understand the fundamentals. Let your local environment, ecosystems, wastes, etc lead your Fungal adventures.
I am not going to promise mushrooms are going to Save the World or Any Lives.
But, if we work together and incorporate our Fungal Allies to our lives, systems and downfalls? We can improve our Day-to-Day lives and overcome more challenges! As well as We have a better chance at a Stronger, More Resilient future for many, many more generations to come!