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Please reach us at lucawgagliano@gmail.com or give us a call at 740-818-7793 if you cannot find an answer to your question. Feel free to text as well!
The Forest Fungi micro mushroom farm produces high quality fresh mushrooms in many varieties in Athens, Ohio and we also offer dehydrated, and freeze dried mushrooms for sale.
Forest Fungi also provides mycology consultancy and a range of in house lab services, including PCR fungal DNA barcoding and mushroom cloning. We operate two ultraclean vertical and horizontal laminar flow mycology lab production rooms (Laminar Flow Rooms 1 and 2), climate controlled mushroom growing and incubation rooms, and a USDA approved food processing facility, where we produce and package dried and powdered mushroom products.
Our lab has 200 liter and 50 liter autoclaves, commercial dehydrators, a freeze dryer, a lab grade moisture analyzer with printer, several types of specialty scales, stereo optical and digital microscopes, commercial grinding machines for creating powders from dried mushrooms and other ingredients, machines for creating and testing culinary solvent and water mushroom extracts and tinctures, several types of specialty commercial package sealing equipment for liquids and powders, and much more. Contact us at lucawgagliano@gmail.com or give us a call at 740-818-7793 for more details.
Over 50 kinds, with different fresh mushrooms available for delivery in the Athens Ohio area weekly. Dehydrated or freeze dried mushrooms are available for shipping anywhere in the USA. Contact us at lucawgagliano@gmail.com or give us a call at 740-818-7793 for more details.
All our mushrooms are grown and packaged in our USDA registered and inspected food processing facility in Athens, Ohio. Contact us at lucawgagliano@gmail.com or give us a call at 740-818-7793 for more details or to schedule a lab tour by appointment.
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For sterilizing lab equipment, grain, and growing media:
Grow Room 1
Laminar Flow Room 1
Laminar Flow Room 2
Food prep area for mushroom powders and freeze dried food
Forest Fungi is a company built around the skills, talents, and research objectives of our mycologist Luca Gagliano, who at 19 is deeply committed to finding new ways to provide nutritious mushrooms to at risk communities, to promoting the science of mushroom cultivation, and to his research objectives into mycelium/agricultural waste composite materials. Luca became fascinated by fungi and worked to buy his first autoclave in 10th grade to conduct his first nationally recognized research. He is currently a freshman with a focus on Environmental Science at Ohio University.
In 2022 Luca received an award for his mycelium composite research from the Ohio Academy of Science, and was selected to participate in the United States Virgin Islands Agricultural Summer internship program focused on alternative agriculture, received the Governor's Award for Excellence in Environmental Protection Research, the National Geographic That's Geography Cultivating Empathy for the Earth award, and was selected as a Regeneron International Science and Engineering Award finalist.
In addition to being an entrepreneur with his own successful mycology research lab, micro farm, and sales channels, in 2023 Luca was again honored to receive awards for his continuing mycelium composite research from the Ohio Academy of Science, the United States Agency for International Development Science Champion Award, the Ricoh Sustainable Development Award, and the Outstanding ASCENT Project Award.
In 2024 the Forest Fungi Micro Farm and Research Lab is growing fast, adding a new ultra clean laminar flow lab process room, fungal DNA tissue sampling and analysis lab equipment, and much more. Luca is pleased to be working again with our local high school in Athens, Ohio to do an educational program on mycology and mycelium composite materials with the kids, and has enjoyed developing the lesson plan in cooperation with master teachers who really care about their students, and science! There has been international interest in the high school mycology lesson plan, so Luca is looking forward to sharing notes for what works well after incorporating feedback from working with students and teachers. So far the reaction from everyone has been very positive as he gets the program going!