About me
Steve has been involved in specialty agriculture and organic food production systems for his entire professional life. He has been active in various aspects of mycology and mushroom production for over 30 years. His initial focus was on the production of specialty, gourmet mushrooms for fresh produce markets. He has been involved in the planning, startup and operation of several mushroom farms and has served as a consultant and mushroom equipment broker to mushroom farms all over the world. He has commercially produced many mushroom species as fresh produce items including Oyster, Enoki, Maitake, Shiitake, King Trumpet and Beech mushrooms. Starting in 2007, his focus turned to the production and processing of select species of medicinal, functional mushrooms for use as functional foods and dietary supplement ingredients. These medicinal mushrooms are produced utilizing a proprietary Solid State Fermentation process that under defined and controlled conditions consistently produces high-quality mushroom powders that are sold under the brand names OM Mushrooms Superfoods and Mushroom Matrix in the San Diego area. The mushroom powders are also sold as wholesale bulk ingredients to product formulators. Development of this process and selection of the mushroom species and substrate materials for production involved multiple trips to Japan, Taiwan and Europe as well as consultation and cooperation with many mycological colleagues.
