Who's behind this
Sam started with one log and a lot of questions
What began as weekend surveys along San Antonio's creek bottoms turned into a cultivation room, a lab-testing habit, and a calendar full of walks.
My name is Samuel McChesney aka SamtheFungi. I was born and raised in Central Texas and have always been an outdoorsy person. I started really delving into the seemingly endless depths of fungi around 2017/2018 and gathering with the Central Texas Mycological Society, helping out at the research station at Circle Acres in partnership with Ecology Action to remediate a brownfield using spent mushroom blocks. That's where the fungi started flowing and the hyphae-nation consolidated within me.
My mission as SamtheFungi, human inspired mycelium, is to end Mycophobia, transform Mycostigma, and connect people to the power of Mycelium! Whoohoo!
My-self-ium currently runs a small farm on 13 acres out in Harwood, Texas where I'm working on a foundation of Fungi to approach land care holistically through the lens of Mycelium. I also work with the land regeneration specialists at SymbiosisTx.com designing and installing food forests and water infiltration structures for generations to come.
Sam the Fungi LLC exists because I got tired of reading supplement labels that told me nothing. Too many bottles are milled grain with a mushroom drawing on the front. So I built the opposite: fruiting body only, dual extracted, one lot at a time, with a lab report published for each release.
Mycology practice, not marketing
Every batch starts with strain selection and a hardwood substrate, gets harvested at peak fruiting, and is dried low and slow before extraction. I run a hot-water pass and an alcohol pass on each lot, then recombine them and send a sample to an independent lab for active-compound potency testing (hericenones) before anything gets labeled.
The Central Texas Mycological Society partnership
I lead field walks and identification sessions in collaboration with the Central Texas Mycological Society. Observations logged on our Geeky Gallops walks get shared back into regional records, which means a Saturday morning with a hand lens actually contributes something to what we know about Texas fungi.
If you'd rather learn in the woods than from a label, that's the door I'd point you toward first.
How we work
Third-party lab tested
Active-compound potency (hericenones) verified by an independent lab — COA available.
Small-batch, fruiting body
Dual-extracted from mushroom fruiting bodies. No grain filler, ever.
Made in Texas
Grown, extracted, and bottled by hand in San Antonio.
Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.