Northwood Mushrooms
Organic Mushrooms Grown Onsite
Northwood Mushrooms is a certified organic mushroom farm growing 8–10 different varieties of mushrooms both outdoors on logs and indoors in carefully managed growing spaces. For the past 17 years, the farm has specialized in creating the right conditions for mushrooms to thrive — from choosing the right logs and growing mediums to managing temperature, humidity, and the surrounding environment.
A big part of mushroom farming is caring for the conditions around the mushrooms so they are happy enough to grow. No caves needed! At least not for the mushrooms grown at Northwoods Mushrooms. In addition to fresh mushrooms, the farm also creates value-added products from mushrooms that are not quite pretty enough to sell fresh, helping reduce waste while offering delicious and creative mushroom-based foods and goods.
Why Visit Northwood Mushrooms?
Many visitors have never seen mushrooms growing before. Northwood Mushrooms offers a rare chance to see how different varieties grow on logs and in indoor growing spaces.
Guided tours happen throughout the day. Visitors can join in when they arrive, learn how mushrooms are grown, and head out when they are ready.
With 17 years of mushroom-growing experience, Northwood Mushrooms loves teaching visitors how much care, time, and knowledge goes into farming mushrooms.
Visitors may find fresh, dried, and powdered mushrooms, mushroom brownies, log kits, mushroom compost, and possibly mushroom butters or pâtés.
These are the most kind, thoughtful, environmentally and socially conscious farmers I know 🙂
-Wendy Paulsen, Visitor at Northwood Mushrooms
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Visitor AmenitiesMeet Your Farmers
Jeremy and Aimee McAdams run Northwood Mushrooms, a farm northeast of the Twin Cities that provides log-grown shiitake and other culinary and medicinal mushrooms and mushroom products to markets, restaurants, vegetable CSAs, and stores in the Twin Cities and the upper midwest.
We started our first logs in our side yard in Minneapolis in 2009 and the farm has just grown and grown since then! Aimee has an off-farm job to support the farm and Jeremy works full time on the farm. When there is any free time, we enjoy watching the birds at our bird feeders, reading, watching movies, and snuggling with Spore, the farm cat.
-Jeremy & Aimee McAdams
Founder, Northwood Mushrooms