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Grow
Lion’s Mane is cultivated on-site on Australian red gum hardwood substrate, in clean, climate-controlled grow rooms. [CONFIRM: growing time]
Our Farm & Process
Where your Lion’s Mane comes from.
We grow Lion’s Mane on Australian red gum hardwood at our farm in Thomastown, Victoria, hand-pick it at peak density and freeze-dry it into extract powder. Every batch is grown, dried and extracted under one roof.
Grow → Harvest → Freeze-dry → Extract → Test
From farm to finished powder.
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Harvest
Every flush is hand-picked at peak density and graded. Only the fruiting bodies are used. No mycelium or grain goes into the powder.
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Freeze-dry
Fresh mushroom is sliced and freeze-dried at −82 °C within hours of harvest.
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Extract
Freeze-dried material is milled and put through a hot-water + ethanol dual extraction, at 10:1, 12:1 or 15:1. About 4 kg of fresh Lion’s Mane makes 100 g of extract powder.
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Test
Our powder has been analysed by AEGIC Analytical Services (beta-glucans, heavy metals, nutrition, 2024) and screened for E. coli and coliforms by RMIT University researchers (2025). See the lab results
The people
Who grows it.
We’re a Melbourne-based functional mushroom farm specialising in Lion’s Mane. [CONFIRM: approved founder and team copy]
Research partner
We work with researchers at RMIT University’s School of Science, led by Dr Tien Huynh, on analysis of our Lion’s Mane. Their work includes a peer-reviewed study in Foods (2025) and hericenone reference standards, which are still in progress. [CONFIRM: RMIT approval of this wording]
See what the lab found.
The process ends in testing. Read the specification, the results, the labs and the dates.