When Jonas, Ora’s Founder, started wild harvesting mushrooms and decocting teas in his kitchen, he was appalled that he couldn’t find the same level of quality on the market.

Unfortunately, in the supplements industry, you’ll mostly find mushroom powders that come from mushroom mycelium instead of the fruiting body. The Mycelium are grown in grain substrates like rice or oats and half of what you get is actually the grain filler and not the mushrooms, which significantly decreases their potency. This disappointing reality led him down a rabbit hole to find a mushroom source with the quality and potency of wild harvested mushrooms.

Finally, he found our organic mushroom suppliers in the mountains of China, where mushrooms have been cultivated since the 12th century. Every crop of mushrooms starts with selected strains, cultivars that have been developed over the course of centuries.

Beyond organic, the mushrooms are grown on specially selected nutritious natural materials native to each particular mushroom, that are generally similar if not the same as what these mushrooms would grow on in the wild. In some cases, this is protein enriched sawdust, in others, buried hardwood logs. These natural substrates contain precursors that guarantee the production of important medicinal compounds.

The mushroom crops are produced in greenhouses and shade-houses with a constant flow of fresh air and freshwater from deep wells, in natural conditions of temperature, light, and humidity. Natural sunlight provides the stimulus for proper mushroom formation, and the mushrooms are harvested by hand and sun-dried or air-dried in a dehydrator.

Because of the level of care that goes into cultivation, Mystic Mushrooms are able to deliver maximum potency and maintain the wild essence of the mushroom.