About Us
Sophie & Sam in 2022 at one of their first ever shows
About Mindfull Mycology
Small Batch · Farm-Grown & Wild-Foraged · Third-Party Tested
The Problem We Started With
The dark secret of the medicinal mushroom industry isn't pretty. When people spend their hard-earned money on medicinal mushroom supplements, what they often receive is little more than an overpriced container of powdered cereal grains or an over-diluted liquid extract.
Why? It's profitable.
At Mindfull Mycology, we do things differently, because our "why" is different.
Our Story
Before Mindfull Mycology was even a twinkle in our founder Sam's eye, he was making batches of Lion's Mane and Reishi medicinal mushroom extracts with one goal: to make the most potent extract possible. Making a profit never even crossed his mind.
Why not? Profit was never the purpose. When you concerned about your family's cognitive health and trying to recover from professional burnout, you aren't looking to cut corners or make a buck — you're looking to make a high-quality medicinal mushroom extract that actually works.
That, in a nutshell, is the reason Mindfull Mycology exists.
The Proof
Well-crafted words are all nice and rosy, but the proof is in the pudding. So here's ours:
Our reviews. We haven't had a single one come in below 5 stars, and every review is third-party verified so only actual customers can leave one.
Our ratio. Every extract we make is 1g:3mL — every 3mL dose is packed with 1,000mg of dried, ultrasonically extracted mushroom. That's 2 to 5x more mushroom than most competing extracts on the market.
Our testing. We send our extracts to independent, third-party labs to confirm they contains clinically relevant doses of the bioactive compounds you're paying for. You can view every Certificate of Analysis (COA) on our [Lab Results page].
Our Learn page. Head over to our Meet Your Mushrooms, Extraction Science, Monthly Newsletters and Third Party Lab Reports blog pages to find all the information you need to make an educated decision about what medicinal mushrooms can do for you and how you can properly incorporate medicinal mushroom extracts into your daily routine.
Our Process
We strive to be radically open about our sourcing, production, and extraction processes — something that still makes us a bit unusual in this industry. When you grow, forage, and extract practically everything yourself, transparency is the easy part.
We extract using a Hielscher Ultrasonic Processor, engineered in Germany. Ultrasonic-assisted extraction lets us pull medicinal compounds from the mushroom at very low temperatures, which means we don't degrade the heat-sensitive compounds found in mushrooms like Cordyceps and Lion's Mane — while still extracting at the concentration our 1g:4mL ratio requires.
Our Lion's Mane, Reishi, and Cordyceps are grown on our own farm, which is Certified Naturally Grown.
Our Turkey Tail and Chaga are wild-foraged across the U.S. (and Canada, for Chaga) and USDA Certified Organic.
Our Maitake is cultivated by growers in Minnesota, also USDA Certified Organic.
No grains, fillers, mycelium, or imported mushrooms are ever put into our products.
Want the deeper dive? [Read more about our extraction process and equipment →]
Meet Sam & Sophie
For now, Mindfull Mycology is mostly a two-person operation, run day-to-day by Sam.
Sam is a former award-winning investigative journalist turned Fungi Academy teacher, with more than eight years of mushroom cultivation and medicinal mushroom extraction experience. He grows, forages, harvests, processes, extracts, batches, and bottles practically everything we sell from our state & FDA licensed facility in the southern Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia.
The love of his life, Sophie — an engineer, natural builder, and ecological landscape designer — helps out whenever she can.
Our Promise
Thank you for visiting our site, considering our products, and supporting our mission to provide medicinal mushroom extracts that are potent, powerful, transparently produced, and affordable. At the end of the day, we just want to help people.
Consider helping us help you: browse our products, head to our blog to read more about the science behind medicinal mushroom extracts and what they can do for you, and consider leaving us a review if you're a fan!
Mush love,
Sam & Sophie