About Lone Star Mushrooms

Big enough to serve you. Small enough to know what goes into every bottle.

Lone Star Mushrooms is a family-owned mushroom fa

rm and extraction company based in Texas. What started as a small farmers market experiment has grown into one of the leading specialty mushroom producers in the region — supplying fresh gourmet mushrooms and premium mushroom extracts to customers across the country.

Unlike many mushroom brands, we don’t outsource our process overseas or rely on mystery ingredients. We grow, extract, and bottle our products ourselves right here in Texas so we can control quality from start to finish.

Every extract we produce is made using real fruiting bodies only — never grain-filled mycelium powders — and carefully dual extracted to maximize beneficial compounds like beta-glucans and triterpenoids.

The Family Behind the Farm

Lone Star Mushrooms was founded by three brothers: Ben, John, and Michael Frederick.

Originally from Pennsylvania and now proudly based in Texas, we each bring very different personalities and strengths to the business. Those differences have helped us navigate everything from building grow rooms by hand to surviving COVID disruptions and scaling production while staying true to our roots.

At the end of the day, we’re still a family business that cares deeply about the products we make and the people who trust us enough to put them into their daily routine.

How It All Started

Ironically, Lone Star Mushrooms started because Michael didn’t even like mushrooms.

Before mushrooms, he chased one business idea after another — organic chicken feed, hydroponic lettuce, lavender farming, college book flipping, even fly deterrents for picnic tables. Entrepreneurship was always the goal. The product just hadn’t revealed itself yet.

That changed during a visit to a local farmers market.

Michael approached the market manager about selling hydroponic lettuce and herbs. Her response was simple:

“We already have enough lettuce vendors. You should grow mushrooms.”

His immediate answer:

“I don’t even like mushrooms.”

Then she added:

“We have one mushroom vendor who comes once a month and sells out in about 45 minutes.”

That was all it took.

On March 2, 2019, we attended our very first farmers market with roughly 8 pounds of mushrooms and sold about $125 worth. It wasn’t glamorous, but it proved one important thing:

People wanted high-quality mushrooms.

Soon after, the garage became a miniature mushroom farm. By the fall of 2019, that small space was producing around 120 pounds per week. In January 2020, we moved into our first commercial facility. Since then, Lone Star Mushrooms has continued to expand production, extraction capabilities, and product offerings while staying committed to quality over shortcuts.

And yes — Michael eventually discovered he actually loved mushrooms. Just not the plain white button mushrooms he grew up avoiding.

This is a photo of out first farmers market. It was far from pretty but we made it work! 

Where We Are Today

What started in a garage has grown into a full-scale mushroom farming and extraction operation.

Today, Lone Star Mushrooms operates out of a 6,000 square foot commercial facility in Texas where we grow gourmet mushrooms, produce functional mushroom extracts, and continue expanding our capabilities to meet growing demand nationwide.

Over the years, we’ve gone from selling a few pounds of mushrooms at local farmers markets to producing thousands of pounds of mushrooms and extracts for customers who care deeply about quality, transparency, and potency.

But despite the growth, our approach remains the same:
focus on quality first and never cut corners.

We still believe the best products come from people who are directly involved in every step of the process — from cultivation and extraction to bottling and fulfillment.

That hands-on approach is what allows us to maintain the standards that built our reputation in the first place.

The Family at the new farm

Our Philosophy

We believe mushrooms should be:

• Potent
• Transparent
• Clean
• Properly extracted
• Made from real fruiting bodies
• Grown and processed with care

That’s why we focus on producing extracts we would confidently give to our own family every single day.

No gimmicks.
No inflated claims.
No hiding behind proprietary blends.

Just carefully crafted mushroom products designed to help people support focus, energy, recovery, immune health, and overall wellness naturally.

Our Mission

Our mission is simple:

To produce the highest-quality mushroom products possible while helping more people experience the benefits of functional mushrooms through honest education, transparency, and uncompromising quality.