Our Story
Forest Origins started with a summer job.
Mushrooms have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My family has decades of experience with mushrooms, and the summer before my junior year of high school, I took my first job on a mushroom farm. Watching a crop grow from the inside sparked something that never left me: a love of growing and a fascination with the world of fungi.
In 2017, during my junior year of business school at San Jose State University, I turned that passion into a class project. The goal was simple: make it easy for anyone to experience the magic of growing gourmet mushrooms at home. That project became Forest Origins.
Small batches, on purpose
Today, Forest Origins is a small, family-rooted business devoted to indoor mushroom grow kits. Every kit is handmade in small weekly batches and quality-checked at every step before it ships to your door.
We keep our batches small on purpose. It lets us watch every block closely, catch problems before they ever reach you, and hold each kit to a standard built on decades of hands-on experience.
Why I do it
For me, this has never been just a business. It is a passion that started on that farm and has only grown since. When you open your kit and watch the first pins appear, I hope you feel the same wonder I felt the first time I saw a crop come in.
Mush love,
Alan M.
Founder, Forest Origins