10/20
Species available now
10%
Of every sale to a cause
24hr
From harvest to your door
35mi
Fresh Delivery Zone
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Steady rotation. Great for medicinal extracts and weekend cooking.
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The sweet spot for most home cooks. A pound covers four to six meals.
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Today's harvest
Three for the table.
Three species running at peak right now. Each pound funds a different mission. That's how we eat fresh and give at the same time.
No. 01
No. 02
No. 03
Blue Oyster
Pleurotus ostreatus
Tastes like: Savory, woodsy, slightly anise.
$13.99 /lb
Fuels Alliance of Hope
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Chestnut
Pholiota adiposa
Tastes like: Nutty, slightly sweet.
$15.99 /lb
Fuels Staben House
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Elm Oyster
Hypsizygus ulmarius
Tastes like: Mild, sweet, with a meaty bite.
$13.99 /lb
Fuels Feed My Starving Children
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Want all 20? Filter by stock, by cause, or just browse the grid — every species harvested here, hand-delivered inside 35 miles, 10% to a partner non-profit.
Cook along
This week in the kitchen.
Fresh recipes from the MotorSpores test kitchen — real ingredients, 30-45 minutes, one technique worth learning per dish.
American Cordyceps
Cordyceps Chicken Tonic Soup
The Chinese tonic tradition done weeknight-fast. Whole chicken legs slow-simmered with dried Cordyceps, ginger, and goji berries — yields a clear, restorative golden broth and tender chicken to shred over rice.
Nameko
Hot Nameko Soba in Mushroom-Dashi Broth
Buckwheat soba noodles in a clear, deeply-savory broth thick with Nameko caps. The mushrooms' silky coating slightly thickens the broth around each strand. Quintessential 15-minute Japanese weeknight dinner.
Italian Oyster
Grilled Italian Oysters with Lemon, Herbs & Aleppo
Whole Italian Oyster clusters brushed with herb-garlic oil, grilled over high heat until charred at the petals, finished with lemon and Aleppo chili. Side dish that steals the meal.
Shiitake
Shiitake Hot & Sour Soup
The Chinese-American takeout classic, properly homemade. Shiitake's earthy depth is the backbone; vinegar and white pepper carry the heat-and-tang. Comes together in 20 minutes if you have the pantry stuff.
Why we farm
Every species fuels a cause.
Mushrooms are wired directly to a partner non-profit. 10% of every pound sold routes to them on a quarterly cycle. The math is public, every dollar accounted for on the Impact ledger.
LMJ's Lost Souls - Alzheimer's Fund
We will fight to END Alzheimer's.
$20.30
in 2026
1 species routes to this cause.
Alliance of Hope
If you have lost a loved one to suicide, you are not alone.
$15.65
in 2026
1 species routes to this cause.
Growing Healthy Veterans
Empowering Veterans! Nourishing Communities!
$9.10
in 2026
1 species routes to this cause.
Staben House
Waukegan Township Staben House provides transitional housing and community enrichment services to homeless women with children.
$8.48
in 2026
1 species routes to this cause.
Feed My Starving Children
Feeding kids. Feeding spirits. Empowering communities.
$7.21
in 2026
1 species routes to this cause.
Aid for Women
We are committed to assisting pregnant women and mothers with guidance, support, and resources.
$5.30
in 2026
1 species routes to this cause.
Keeping Families Covered
Hygiene Products for Every Age and Stage
$3.63
in 2026
1 species routes to this cause.
Mushroom 101
New to gourmet mushrooms? Start here.
Forget what you know about the button mushrooms at the grocery store. Gourmet mushrooms are closer to scallops, bacon, or steak than to the rubbery slices on a salad bar. Five to know:
01
Lion's Mane
Tastes like seafood
Slice into rounds, sear in butter. Texture is uncanny, somewhere between a sea scallop and lump crab. The neuroscience press loves it for nerve-growth research; you'll love it on a brioche bun.
Learn more →02
Pink Oyster
Tastes like bacon
Slice thin, crisp-fry in hot oil with smoked paprika. Bacon texture without the bacon. Outrageous pink color holds through cooking. The plant-based BLT you didn't know was possible.
Learn more →03
King Oyster
Tastes like scallops
Thick white stems sliced into rounds cook into something convincingly scallop-like. Sear hard in butter, baste with brown butter and thyme. Restaurant trick: score one side first.
Learn more →04
Reishi
For the cup, not the plate
Not culinary — this is tea. Simmer dried slices with ginger for an earthy, slightly bitter mug. Two thousand years of traditional use and modern research interest in the same cup.
Learn more →05
Cordyceps
For energy, not the plate
Also a brew, not a sauté. Cordyceps tea is the high-energy side of the cabinet — long history in traditional medicine, popular with the endurance crowd, deeply savory mug.
Learn more →01
Race-team precision
Our technology-driven farm features AI-controlled rooms to ensure the highest standards of quality and consistency.
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Hand-harvested
Harvested the morning it ships. No cold-chain delays. Most orders arrive days fresher than grocery store alternatives.
03
Mission-funded
10% of every species sale routes to a partner non-profit. Public ledger. Quarterly contributions. Eat well, give well.
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Fast-lane delivery
We deliver from Gurnee, IL. Fresh to your door. Outside the radius? Catch us at the farmers market or order dry products shipped nationwide.
In person
Catch us at the markets.
Outside our 35-mile coverage area? We're at farmers markets across Lake County, Cook County, and southern Wisconsin most weekends.
See the scheduleGrowing Fresh in Gurnee, IL
All of our mushrooms are grown using all natural substrates made of soybean hull, oak wood, oats and other grains. NO ANIMAL waste or animal by products are used in our farm.