OUR MUSHROOMS

eat more mushrooms!

the food of the future.

At Ground Culture, our vision is to provide locally-grown, high-quality edible and medicinal mushrooms to our community. We are dedicated to growing all of our mushrooms using Earth-honoring and regenerative practices. Ground Culture’s mushrooms are available through our CSM shares and at select apothecaries in Portland, Oregon.

 

TRY OUR MUSHROOMS

Ground Culture’s upcoming CSM (Community Supported Mushrooms) shares will be packed with these powerhouse mushrooms, which make delicious and nutritious meals and medicine! CSM shares can be purchased through our online store. Pick-up locations will be available in Portland, Oregon.

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GROW YOUR OWN MUSHROOMS

We also offer low-tech mushroom cultivation classes, so you can grow your very own mushrooms at home! Sign up for our email newsletter for more information about our upcoming classes.

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GROW WITH US

Ground Culture is a community-supported endeavor of loving and listening to the fungi. Come to a work party or event, meet fellow friends of the fungi, and get to know the astounding ancestral beings of the Fungal Queendom! Sign up for our email newsletter for more information about our upcoming events.

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Reishi - Ganoderma lucidum


Royal Revitalizer

Reishi is the wise, regal Queen of the mushrooms. As elder and guide of restoration and resilience, Reishi transmits longevity and grounded wisdom. Regal Reishi has a lasting legacy as a potent medicinal used for over 4000 years in medicine traditions of China and Japan. In China, this mushroom is called “Ling Zhi,” meaning “Spirit Plant,” “Plant of Immortality,” and “Herb of Spiritual Potency.”

Some health benefits of reishi mushrooms:

  • Boosts immune system

  • Balances hormones

  • Lowers cholesterol and blood pressure

  • Improves seasonal allergies

  • Stabilizes blood sugar

  • Shields from UV radiation

  • Suppresses cough, expectorant

  • Soothes insomnia, anxiety, and nervousness

  • Relaxes muscle

  • Decreases inflammation

  • Protects the liver

Oysters — Pleurotus spp.

GLORIOUS GENERALISTS

If mushrooms were bees, oysters would be the worker bees. They are the delicious and nutritious mushroom of the people. According to ancient Chinese poetry, oysters are “the mushroom of flower heaven.” At Ground Culture, we believe oysters can change the world! We grow a variety of types of oyster mushrooms — pink, golden, white elm, king, and blue. Oysters are easy to cultivate and have great potential for mycoremediation projects that can help heal the toxic environmental impacts of industrialization with the power of fungi!

Health benefits of oyster mushrooms include:

  • High in protein, iron and B vitamins

  • Lowers cholesterol

  • Strengthens veins

  • Relaxes muscles and tendons

  • Builds blood

  • Helps regulate sleep

  • Improves mood

  • Inhibits tumor growth

  • Fades freckles and sunspots

 

Shittake — Lenitula edodes

Spirit Stabilizer

Shittake guides us towards stability within the flow of life - adaptability. Shittake is a stabilizer of body and spirit in uncertain and shifting times. This mushroom teaches us to embody a grounded adaptability that leads to an abundance of energy. Over 900 years ago, Shittake was the first mushroom to be cultivated on logs. Today, it is one of the most commonly cultivated mushrooms worldwide and prized for being high in antioxidants, B vitamins, magnesium, potassium, and vitamin D. Along with a plethora of medicinal benefits, Shiitake has great potential for mycoremediation projects that can help heal the toxic environmental impacts of industrialization with the power of fungi!

Some health benefits of Shittake mushrooms:

  • Stimulates immune system

  • Increases energy

  • Decreases inflammation

  • Improves blood circulation

  • Lowers cholesterol

  • Fights infections and viruses

  • Supports liver and detoxification

Lion’s Mane— Hericum ericareus

Brain Booster

Lion’s Mane is a mind-body connector, an experienced integrator. The energetic networking of Lion’s Mane helps connect the spirt’s knowing, to the mind’s knowing, to the body’s knowing through a cyclical cascade of connections. Lion’s Mane combines a graceful and gentle spirit with an alert and focused determination, transmitting its potent resiliency to our bodies and minds. Lion’s Mane is a delightful delicacy with a lobster flavor. It is the most protein rich of all cultivated mushrooms and is packed with free-radical fighting antioxidants.

Some health benefits of Lion’s Mane mushrooms :

  • Improves memory and concentration

  • Repairs and regenerates neurons

  • Neuroprotective

  • Reverses effects of neurological diseases

  • Reduces anxiety

  • Improves sleep

  • Digestive tonic

  • Prevents gastric ulcers

  • Stimulates immune system

For more info on mushrooms and their health benefits, check out these great references:

  • The Fungal Pharmacy (Robert Rogers)

  • Radical Mycology (Peter McCoy)

  • Healing Mushrooms (Tero Isokauppila)

  • Medicinal Mushrooms (Christopher Hobbs)