You want your food to be local, so shouldn’t your compost?

Compost that builds your mycelial networks, adds beneficial bacteria, and nature’s slow alchemy of wood breaking down into humus.

Good for growing your garden, great for healing your soil.

A living compost and closed loop project from The Velveteen Bean + The Fungi Farms

You may have picked up a free mushroom block or a scoop of hot compost from a local event, garden pop-up, or the Plant Library. Wondering who and why is this?

What You're Holding

(See how-to guide for mushrooms, from The Fungi Farm)

After the gorgeous mushrooms are harvested at The Fungi Farms, and brought to their many farmers’ market locations in the Bay Area, the leftover blocks, still full of life, are:
→ shared with neighbors like you to grow a second, even third flush of mushrooms at home. Low risk, low-waste, high reward. Mushrooms to the people!
→ or turned into Forest Floor, a fungi-rich compost. It’s available via monthly batches. Sign up here to be notified, no commitment.

Together, we’re creating a local, circular system that keeps food waste out of landfills and puts microbial magic back into the ground.

What Makes It Special

Forest Floor is made from spent mushroom spawn, including oak sawdust and soy hulls, plus our OG Hareloom Compost Kindling mix; fine pine sawdust, bunny manure, and coffee byproduct. The combo mimics the conditions of a cozy forest floor, where mycelial networks, slow-decomposing wood, and rich microbial life feed plants from the bottom up. Yes, we have a vegan batch too!

It’s made fresh. It’s teeming with life. It can’t be shelf-stabilized or shipped, and that’s a good thing.

Why are the mushroom blocks, plants, seeds, etc free?

We want you raptured by mushrooms & obsessed with compost, that’s it! Access to nature, gardening, soil care, mushrooms, home-grown food, and compost education shouldn't be a luxury. This collaboration is about sharing resources, closing loops, and helping each other grow.

Cook for people you know or are getting to know. Start your own upcycled compost, or just know you’ve helped keep waste out of the landfill and put it back into the local ecosystem.

Made by hand in the East Bay. Grown in collaboration.

Like what you got? Want to see the Plant Library in more locations?

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Soil Magic ✨

Most store-bought compost is bagged, sterilized, and lifeless by the time it hits your garden. Add back the magic, invite local (microbe) guests.

Available in a Vegan version—a fully plant-powered compost for those avoiding bunny manure.

📍 Available in East Bay Area, CA + surprise local pop-ups.
Join the compost list → mention "Forest Floor” or “Vegan Forest Floor”