Seaside MushroomsThe family behind it
We eat our own harvest, every day.
Welcome to Seaside Mushrooms, where a passion for mycology meets the restorative salt air of Flagler Beach, Florida. We are a small-batch, family-run farm founded on a simple belief: the best mushrooms are grown with love, harvested by hand, and shared with the community.
We are not just growers — we are mushroom enthusiasts, constantly amazed by these fungi. As a small, hands-on team, you will usually find us in the grow room or at the local farmers’ market.
Meet the team
Two people, one obsession with doing it right.
Morrigan McDonald
Resident Grower · Author
Morrigan keeps the grow room humming and the harvests on schedule — the steady hands that turn cultures into clusters. She is the reason the day-to-day runs, and the anchor that keeps the whole operation grounded. Her first novel, Survival Is Buoyancy — Book One of The Great Thaw — is out now under the name Morrigan B. McDonald.
Scott McDonald
Resident Mycologist
Scott is the science behind our spores. He nerds out on the biology — ensuring every culture is vigorous, every strain is potent, and every harvest is the highest quality possible. Twenty years as a security architect before this, and he still writes down everything he learns.
Everything we do
One farm, three things growing.
The mushrooms came first. The books, the software and the failover work all grew out of running the farm — and every one of them borrows its vocabulary from the grow room.
Seaside Mushrooms
Lion’s mane, reishi and cordyceps grown here, chaga wild-harvested — capsules, dual-extract drops, gummies and coffee, plus fresh clusters at the weekend market.
Shop →Paracoding Press
Our own imprint, run off this farm. Morrigan’s fiction and Scott’s field records, built from a single source so the paperback, hardcover and ebook can never disagree.
paracoding.com →Paracoding.AI
An open-source agentic control plane — strains, substrate, subculture, sterile technique. The farm’s vocabulary, pointed at software. Apache-2.0.
paracoding.ai →
In print
Books grown on this farm.
Morrigan B. McDonald’s Survival Is Buoyancy, and Scott’s PARACODING series. Four titles so far, all published through our own imprint.
Paracoding Press →Come say hi — or shop fresh.
Small-batch gourmet & functional mushrooms, grown by hand on the Florida coast.