How It Works

How It’s Made Grown

We actually grow Mushroom® Packaging using mycelium, a fungal network of threadlike cells. This mycelium grows around agricultural by-products like buckwheat husks, oat hulls, or cotton burrs to any shape we make. In 5 – 7 days, in the dark, with no watering, and no petrochemical inputs, the mycelium envelops the by-products, binding them into a strong and beautiful packaging part. Inside every cubic inch of packaging, there’s a matrix of 8 miles of tiny mycelial fibers! At the end of the process, we treat Restore with heat to stop the growth so there will never be any spores.

Want the Ten Minute Explanation?

Watch CEO Eben Bayer’s TED talk on the invention of these materials.