As a well-known gourmet and medicinal mushroom farm in Kankakee IL, we offer a variety of fresh, healthy, and tasty mushrooms, which offer medicinal benefits.
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As a well-known gourmet and medicinal mushroom farm in Kankakee IL, we offer a variety of fresh, healthy, and tasty mushrooms, which offer medicinal benefits.
We also produce organic grain spawn bags and ship them throughout the country for small and large mushroom farmers. Since day one, we’ve worked tirelessly to expand the quality of our products and supply our customers with the fastest colonizing spawn bags yielding a high volume of fruiting bodies.
We work hard to expand our products: we have medicinal mushroom tinctures that we make using the dual extraction method, and we have organic lion’s mane mushroom coffee, which you can buy online here on our website or you can come to our farm and meet us at our storefront.
Our Story
My wife and I are first-generation immigrants in the United States and second-generation mushroom cultivators. We have two kids Abigail and John and with their presence in our lives, building our own business and leaving a legacy for our kids became a priority for us and fueled us to find a way to start our local small business.
My wife and I always had entrepreneurial spirits and wanted to have a business where we were in control of our own products to grow them in a responsible way. However, life got in our way and we both had jobs and had to work to provide for our family. Then Covid hit and I lost my job. Sometimes an ending is a beginning.
My father-in-law who is a biologist in Turkey who started growing mushrooms in the ’80s taught me from scratch how to grow them in a manual setting over the years. I have truly fallen in love with everything exotic mushrooms have to offer from the taste, texture, and many health benefits. As an avid reader, I read many articles that talked about the growing evidence that mushrooms can help the environment such as absorbing carbon.
We built our own local business “Thrive Mushrooms”. We sell our mushrooms in select farmers’ markets. We are located in the south suburbs and currently looking for opportunities to further expand our business in different parts of the city to introduce our local mushrooms to different communities and teach people all the wonderful benefits mushrooms offer.
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MEDICINAL MUSHROOM TINCTURES
We apply the dual extraction method when we prepare our medicinal mushroom tinctures. These tincture bottles contain around 35% grain alcohol, distilled water, and the medicinal mushroom’s dehydrated powder.
GRAIN SPAWN
We are here to help our grower friends
Take your mushroom growing to the next level by choosing our organic grain spawn bags. Providing vigorous selection of quality and healthy mycelium, and very fast shipping service, we will always do our best to ensure you grow exactly what you have in your tent or greenhouse. Check out our collection today.