Our Values

We are committed to practicing regenerative agriculture to provide nourishing food while helping to heal the Earth and our connection to our planet and one another. Our vision is to become holistic stewards of our community and our land. We are practitioners of Permaculture as a hopeful example of the way forward for humanity. We strive to create regenerative agricultural systems that honor both the natural world and our inseparable connection to it.

Ethics

- Earth Care - People Care - Fair Share -

Principles

- Permaculture Principles - Living Systems Frameworks - Prosocial - Holistic Management -

Practices

- Sustainable - Regenerative - Permaculture

inquiry

- Living design process - Prosocial - Community engagement - Personal growth & discovery - Trauma Informed -

Our story

Cloud Cap Mushrooms is a small mom and pop mushroom farm owned and run by us, Emilia and Chris Ponti. We are multi-generation Oregonians working hard to be good stewards of our community and our land. Besides growing culinary mushrooms, raising our girls, and teaching handwork at Shining Star Waldorf School, Em is the founder of the citizen climate action group “Mothers for a Safe Columbia County”, and founder and Executive Director of “WildFlower Play Collective” a nonprofit indoor play space and family resource center in St. Helens,OR. She was born and raised in Portland, OR and has an activist and environmentalist heritage. Chris has a professional background in music as well as cannabis cultivation, and has been intently learning to grow mushrooms for the past 9 years. Chris’s family came here on the Oregon Trail to near what is now Roseburg in the mid 1800s. On his mother’s side his family immigrated from Italy in the early 1900s and settled what is still the family farm in Eastern Oregon near Walla Walla, WA. He grew up in the Willamette Valley in Stayton, OR.

Our passion for mushroom cultivation is rooted in our love for the Earth and our desire to create the world we wish for the future.