Our story
I built a substrate company from a hospital bed.
Two years on a recovery bench turned into one obsession: substrate clean enough that a first-timer gets mushrooms, not mold. That formula won the Denver Cup. Now it ships in a bag you just add spores to.
Before
Mushrooms were already part of my life.
I'd been microdosing for a while, and growing a little of my own on the side. Nothing serious. The kind of hobby you tinker with on a weekend, just part of how you live up here. None of it was a plan yet.
The accident
Nine seconds that changed the plan.
A wreck, a helicopter, and a long stretch in a hospital bed. The only thing I could control from there was what I would build if I made it out.
The injury
Then I saw the scan.
Severe traumatic brain injury. A craniotomy to take the pressure off.
The doctors were honest about how bad it was. That scan is mine, and it reset everything about what came next.
The recovery
The walk back.
Two months in rehab, it was off the table. The day I got out, I came back to microdosing.
But I was in a vulnerable place, and it mattered more than ever to know exactly what I was putting in my body. I wanted my hands on every input before I used it.
The obsession
Wanting every input meant growing my own.
If I had to know exactly what was in it, I had to grow it myself. And that only works if the substrate is clean and the same every single time.
That need turned a weekend hobby into an obsession: ratios, pressure, timing, tested until the contamination stopped. Worm castings instead of manure. Every bag sterilized before it leaves the building.
I won't ship what I won't grow with myself.
Inside the operation
Every batch, by the same hands.
Grown in a cut-open water jug — no tent, no still-air box, no chamber. Proof the bag does the work, not the gear.
This is the bag he made
So I put it all in one bag.
Grain, substrate, and a self-healing injection port in one sealed, pre-sterilized bag.
No still-air box, no pressure cooker. You add a spore syringe and wait.
Just add spores. Fruit right in the bag, no extra equipment.
This is the substrate that won
Then the substrate took first place in Denver.
Six ingredients, sterilized at 123°C, worm castings instead of manure.
The same grow medium that took first place in a Denver growers competition, judged against the whole room. The exact bag you can buy.
Worm-castings substrate, ships hydrated. 3 to 5 flushes per setup. Contamination Free Guarantee.
Elk Mountains, Colorado
This all happens in the Elk Mountains.
Mixed, sterilized, and sealed in the Elk Mountains of Colorado. Grower-run. Every batch tested in our own grow before it ships to yours.
Why growers switch
The substrate does the hard part.
Worm castings, not manure
Cleaner nutrition and lower contamination risk than the composted-manure substrates everyone else ships.
Pre-sterilized. Skip the pressure cooker.
Autoclaved at 123°C for 90 minutes before it ships. No equipment, no guesswork.
Contamination Free Guarantee
Shows up contaminated or fails to colonize? We replace it. No argument.
3 to 5 flushes per bag
One setup keeps fruiting. Most growers pull mushrooms for weeks.
The lineup
Pick where you start.
First grow or scaling up. There is a bag for that.
I won't ship what I wouldn't grow with myself.
Jamo
Every bag carries the Contamination Free Guarantee.
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