About Us


  • Wildcap Fungi started with a fascination of how mushrooms grow and how they fit into our natural ecosystems. What was once a small experiment quickly turned into a passion for growing high quality gourmet mushrooms for friends, family, & the community. By keeping our small batch production hands-on and local, we’re able to offer mushrooms that are fresh, thoughtfully cultivated, and grown with transparency. Wildcap Fungi is proud to serve our local community and beyond, helping make high-quality gourmet and medicinal mushrooms more accessible and encouraging people to explore everything these unique fungi have to offer.

Fresh & Unique Mushrooms

We specialize in unique small batch cultivars all grown in house in Chicago. With extreme attention put into quality at every stage of the grow, our goal is to provide high quality mushrooms that chefs love to cook with, home cooks are excited to experiment with, and customers feel good about supporting. Our mushrooms are not just great on the plate either! We produce a variety of functional cultivars valued for their health-supporting properties available fresh, dried, or in tincture format (available soon).

  • Fresh Mushrooms

    We offer many unique varieties of well known gourmet mushrooms species. These are available to purchase fresh to customers in the Chicago area. Available by signing up for weekly/monthly CSA pick-up (Available Soon) or visiting our stand at one of your local farmers markets in the Chicago area. If you are a store or restaurant looking to sell or use our mushrooms in your dishes, please reach out to us via the contact link at the top of the site.

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  • Dried Mushrooms

    Most varieties we grow are also offered in dried format. Dried mushrooms provide vastly longer shelf lives and can be utilized to make a variety of dishes & remedies. From adding depth to soups or making teas with health supporting benefits, dried mushrooms offer a wide range of uses to consumers. Some recommended use cases for each variety of dried mushroom we sell can be found within each listing in our catalog.

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  • Tinctures

    Tinctures are the most concentrated easy to use form of our medicinal mushroom varieties. Offering convenience along with fast acting effects. All made entirely in house with mushrooms grown by us.

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Looking To Grow your Own?

We Offer the Supplies you need (COMING SOON)

  • Sterilized Grain & Substrait

    We offer autoclave sterilized grain and substrate bags available in 3lb, 5lb, & 10lb sizes. These bags are the same bags we use for cultivating our mushrooms. With organic white milo used in our grain bags and a 50/50 mix of soy hulls and oak sawdust utilized in our substrate bags.

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  • Liquid Cultures

    We offer sterile liquid culture syringes of most cultivars we grow in house. Found a particular variety you really enjoyed? Try growing it yourself! We offer growing advice/customer support to anyone who purchases our liquid cultures or other growing supplies.

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  • Growing Supplies

    Get everything you need to grow your own mushrooms at home all in one place! With sterile petri dishes, liquid culture jars, monotub kits, and everything in between all available directly from us.

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