Our story

I built a substrate company from a hospital bed.

Two months in a recovery bed turned into one thing I couldn't put down: a substrate clean enough that a first-timer gets mushrooms, not mold.

It later took first place in a Denver growing competition.

Now it ships in a bag you just add spores to.

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Contamination Free Guarantee Grower-run · Elk Mountains, Colorado

Jamo, in his own words

Backed by our Contamination Free Guarantee. No risk, no runaround. Contamination Free Guarantee. If it fails, we replace it free. Every bag guaranteed. Contamination? Replaced at no cost. Backed by our Contamination Free Guarantee. No risk, no runaround. Contamination Free Guarantee. If it fails, we replace it free. Every bag guaranteed. Contamination? Replaced at no cost.

Before

Mushrooms were already part of my life.

I'd been microdosing for about nine months before the accident. I had one guy I could get them from. A good source, but not a reliable one.

I just wanted to know I had reliable access, and to know exactly what was going into my body.

Growing my own answered both. It started as a hobby, not a plan.

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. They took the whole skull plate off because it got infected.

So for two months I had no skull plate. Just a divot where my skull was supposed to be. That scan is mine.

The recovery

Coming back.

I couldn't go back to work yet. I still couldn't really talk. I'd stammer, and sometimes even when I knew the word, I couldn't get it out of my mouth.

Meditation got me through it. I was up on the mountainside by myself, working. If I got frustrated I could just stop. Sit on the porch, look at the mountains, come back to it.

No pressure to interface with anybody. That was a gift.

The obsession

I had to become an expert.

This was early days. No decriminalization movement, no good information, no reliable product to just go buy.

If I wanted to grow my own, I had to figure it out myself.

The first rig, figured out in the garage.

My first grow was a BRF cake. Brown rice flour, gypsum and vermiculite in a jar, autoclaved, then inoculated and moved to a tub.

It went well, but a cake is basically one flush. I needed real volume, so I moved into tub tech, grain and substrate together.

Then I started trying every company's inputs, and that's when the contaminations started.

The other guys were cooking with exotic animal dung, rhino, zebra, camel, and it smelled awful.

So I built my own. Worm castings instead of manure, broken down so fine it looks like dirt, with coco coir that fights off contamination. A few iterations later, that was HB4.

My first mix with worm castings. Many iterations to come.

I only started selling once it was dialed in. I had leftovers, so I set friends up with tubs, and most of them contaminated because they weren't careful.

That's when it clicked: people need a product they can rely on.

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 I 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.

$32.00

Inside the operation today

Every batch, by the same hands.

Substrate mixed fresh, every batch.
Heat-treated in-house before it ships.
The finished substrate and spawn, ready to ship.
Loaded up and out the door.

This is the substrate I built

Six ingredients. Worm castings instead of manure.

Clean nutrition from worm castings, contamination resistance from coco coir, all of it tuned to colonize fast and come back flush after flush.

It's the same grow medium that took first place in a Denver growing competition. The exact bag you can buy.

Worm-castings substrate, ships hydrated. 3 to 5 flushes per setup. Contamination Free Guarantee.

$28.00

Elk Mountains, Colorado

This all happens in the Elk Mountains.

Mixed, heat-treated, 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 substrate everyone else uses.

Heat-treated. Skip the pressure cooker.

We run the autoclave for about 2.5 to 3 hours before it ships. No equipment, no guesswork.

Contamination Free Guarantee*

In the unlikely case it 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.

*Worm castings are invertebrate manure, not ungulate (hoofed-animal) manure. *Every bag is inspected before it ships; full terms on the Contamination Free Guarantee page.