About us
From the Farm. For the Farmer. For You.
Cultivating the Goodness of Nature, Fresh From Our Farm to Your Door
MycoHarvest is a sustainable mushroom farming startup ensuring consistency, safety,
and freshness through controlled indoor farming.
Activities
Est. Maharashtra, India
We started MycoHarvest in 2023 in a small village, Nandurkhi Bk, near Shirdi, Maharashtra. Not in a boardroom. Not with investors. In a farming family that had worked the land for generations and asked a simple question: what if the farm could do more?
That question became a company. And that company became a chain connecting farmers, consumers, and the earth in a way that wastes nothing and leaves everyone better off.
Where It All Began
Our founder grew up watching farmers like her own family pour everything into the land and still struggle. The income was seasonal, the margins thin, and there was one thing almost every farm had in abundance that nobody was using: straw.
Wheat straw, rice straw, and leftover crop waste piled up and, in most cases, was burned. She saw something different in it. A substrate. A growing medium. A starting point.
With a master's degree in botany (from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Department of Botany) and a deep understanding of how fungi grow, she began cultivating mushrooms on collected farm straw in Nandurkhi BK, a village in the Ahilyanagar district near Shirdi. What grew out of that first growing room wasn't just mushrooms; it was a model.
Straw collected from local farms. Used to grow premium mushrooms. Spent substrate composted using earthworms. Vermicompost and compost water are sold back to the same farmers. The waste of one becomes the input of another. Full circle. No burn. No loss.
We called it MycoHarvest. But the farmers around us called it something rarer, in sense.
THE CHAIN WE BUILT
A Farmer-First, Zero-Waste Model
Most food businesses start with a product. We started with a system.
Here's how the MycoHarvest chain works:
🌾 Step 1 - Straw Collection
We collect crop waste straw and agricultural residues directly from local farms in Ahilyanagar. Waste that would otherwise be burned. We pay farmers for it, keeping income flowing from the very first step.
🍄 Step 2 - Mushroom Cultivation
That straw becomes the substrate on which we grow our mushrooms Oyster, button, milky, and shiitake in a clean, controlled indoor environment. No pesticides where they aren't needed. Minimal chemical inputs. Maximum hygiene.
🪱 Step 3 - Vermicomposting
After harvest, the spent substrate doesn't go to waste. We process it using earthworms, producing rich vermicompost. The compost water liquid gold for soil is collected alongside it.
🌱 Step 4 - Back to the Farmers
The vermicompost, compost water, and earthworms go back to local farmers as affordable, high-quality soil inputs. The chain starts with a farmer. It ends with one too.
This is what we mean when we say farmer-first. It isn't a slogan. It's the architecture of the business.
WHAT WE GROW & MAKE
Our Products
Tony Fred
Chief Executive Officer
Founder and chief visionary, Tony is the driving force behind the company. He loves to keep his hands full by participating in the development of the software, marketing, and customer experience strategies for agricultural production.
Sarah Fields
Agricultural Production Officer
Sarah loves taking on challenges and has years of experience in the agricultural industry. She has helped our company grow and succeed in the agricultural production business.
Anna Fields
Chief Agricultural Officer
Meet our CTO, John Smith.
Iris Joe
Chief Operations Officer
Iris brings her international experience and professional acumen to our team, helping us drive success and take our company to the next level.