About Us
Hey I'm Conor
I started Forest Living as a way to add value to sawdust that was going to waste in my family business, and many other factories across the country. What started out as a way to reduce the amount of sawdust we were burning and disposing of, turned into a mission to produce high quality products from the sawdust of similar high quality pieces. I wanted it to be sustainable as a way to help the environment as much as I could, so that's why you'll see all of our sawdust products are bound together with mushroom roots and not harmful glues. Have a look at what we're making now and check back regularly as we are constantly adding new products to our range!
The Origin Story
Mycelium, which is the root structure of mushrooms, forms an incredibly intricate web like structure to extract nutrients and feed itself in order to produce the fruiting bodies (which would be referred to as mushrooms), where it then produces its spores allowing it to reproduce. We allow it to form the root like structure around our sawdust in moulds, but then kill it off with heat to stop the growth before it gets to the fruiting body stage. this allows us to use the mycelium as a binding agent, without the extra complexity involved in bringing it to fruit.