Hernshaw Farms – Mushbox Subscription

What's in the box: Each box is built around a ready-to-grow gourmet mushroom kit, such as Lion's Mane, Shiitake or King Oyster, that you can fruit at home.

Hernshaw Farms is a small mushroom farm in West Virginia that sells home grow kits, dried mushrooms and growing supplies. Its Mushbox subscription builds on that grow kit range. The single kits include Lion's Mane, Black Pearl King Oyster, Shiitake and a Mystery kit, each listed at $39.99. The Lion's Mane kit has a good number of customer reviews. The kits are made for beginners who want to grow mushrooms in their own kitchen, and the site offers growing instructions and recipes to help. The site's main pages do not explain how the subscription works. Delivery frequency, subscription pricing, which varieties rotate through and how to pause or cancel are not spelled out, so read the product page carefully before you sign up. The farm's story is a real draw. It describes a small team turning former mine land into farmland and using spent growing material to rebuild soil on old mine sites. If you care about where your money goes, you may like supporting that work. Free shipping applies to orders over $61, which one kit does not reach on its own. Overall the kits look solid and well reviewed, but the subscription terms are less clear than we would like.