Small-batch gourmet — est. fresh, not frozen

Specialty mushrooms,
pure-culture spawn,
and kits that grow.

Specialty gourmet mushrooms, pure-culture spawn, and ready-to-grow kits for cultivators and chefs. Run from a working mycologist's lab — Lion's Mane, Pink and Blue Oyster, Chestnut, Maitake and Cordyceps — sold fresh at the farmers market and shipped as ready-to-grow kits.

See this week’s flushBrowse the strain index

In-store at the local farmers market · ship-ready kits year-round

Materials —Substrate:Hardwood pellets (oak & walnut)Spawn:Sterilized grain · sawdust · liquid cultureKits:Monotub & grow-bag, kitchen-counter sizedGuides:Photo-rich, no flow hood needed

Strain index

Six strains grocery stores
rarely carry.

Pick by the dish you're cooking, not the aisle. Every strain is a fresh, in-season flush — there is no "bulk SKU" coming out of this shop.

Browse all strains

For cultivators

Substrate, spawn, and a guide
you can read on a kitchen counter.

Walnut- and oak-based hardwood pellets. Sterilized grain and sawdust spawn. Liquid-culture syringes. Monotub and grow-bag kits — sized for one pair of hands — each shipping with a photo-rich guide so a first flush lands without a flow hood or rented lab space.

Open the order formSee the strain index
  1. 01

    You tell us what you cook.

    A chef calling for Maitake before service gets a different answer than a home grower stocking a monotub.

  2. 02

    Small batches, not SKU sprawl.

    Six strains. Hardwood-based pellets and sterilized grain. One grow-bag, one monotub. No fifty-product catalog.

  3. 03

    A culture you can read.

    Pure-culture spawn on grain, in syringes, or already pre-loaded into kits — matched to a photo-rich guide so a first flush is achievable.

For chefs

Small-batch, fresh, and priced for a menu — not a market stall.

Held for chefs that order ahead. Pick the strain by Tuesday and we'll have it on the pass by Friday. The farm also stocks functional species — Cordyceps militaris — for tea service, broths and tonics, within cultivated gourmet only.

  • Direct line

    A working mycologist, not a call centre.

  • Lead time

    48-hour pick & pack to most ZIPs.

  • Variety

    Six strains beyond what supermarkets stock.

  • Records

    Picked, weighed, dated — kitchen-ready.

Cultivator newsletter

Weekly growing tips
+ seasonal harvest updates.

One short Sunday read — what’s fruiting in the lab this week, what to start from spawn, and what to skip. Sent by the mycologist, never bought or brokered.

One short Sunday read — what’s fruiting, what to start, and what to skip.

An honest stand-alone shop

Mushroom culture, raised by hand,
ruled only by what grows.

A direct challenge to the North Spore / Midwest Grow Kits / Out-Grow catalog model: small-batch freshness, harder-to-source specialty strains, plus the bulk substrates, spawn and educational content the serious grower or working chef actually needs. Pure culture is pure culture — there's no catalog-shop on the other end of your kit.

Talk to the mycologist

Volume, lead time, a custom strain request — drop a line.

pinbloom-2@polsia.app