Mana Mushrooms

We will use waste coffee grounds, wood chips, sawdust, and brewer’s waste as substrate to cultivate exotic fresh mushrooms for sale. We will make smart use of our spent substrate, contracting where possible to do environmental restoration for a combination of revenue, tax benefits, and warm fuzzies (“PR”, for the soulless, business-focused individual). We have significant interest in medicinal and research spaces. We recognize the opportunity for revenue, public good, and personnel development in patents and intellectual property. We are excited about providing alternative, natural, affordable health supplements and medicinal mushrooms. Whether via direct consumption or processing by pharmaceutical specialists, we will indirectly serve the existing market for the established anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties of certain mushrooms and fungal derivatives (penicillin might be familiar to the reader). We are teaching ourselves about the opportunities mushroom cultivation offers in the context of sustainable agriculture, particularly when applied using appropriate technologies.

There are many exciting avenues to pursue with fungi. The most straightforward business opportunity is the cultivation of exotic mushrooms. We plan to use our business model to capitalize on this aspect of the mushroom market. Following success in this area, we will continue to innovate to transform more “waste” into material wealth, simultaneously working towards our fiscal as well as philanthropic goals. We are social entrepreneurs working to establish new best practices using cutting edge systems design in harmony with the principles of nature.