Nameko has centuries of use in Japanese home cooking, where it's a fixture of miso soup and winter nabe. It carries the beta-glucans common to cultivated mushrooms, and the soluble fiber in that coating is the sort traditionally valued for digestive comfort. Low in calories, generous in minerals, and easy to eat often — which is really the point.

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The soup mushroom. Tiny amber caps that come in clusters under a natural glossy coating, and that slickness is the whole point, not a defect to rinse away. Wash it off and you've thrown out what makes nameko worth buying: it dissolves into stock and gives broth a silky body nothing else quite does. They cook in a minute or two, so add them at the end rather than building a dish on them. Classic with miso, dashi, soy, sake, and grated daikon; a knob of butter takes them somewhere else entirely.

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Nameko runs roughly 30 days from inoculation to harvest. Once cut, it's race-day fresh. Delivered or available for pickup within 48 hours.

The inventory feed is live from TurboBatch, our propietaty mushroom farm management application. The timer above shows the next expected harvest based on what's currently colonizing.

Home delivery: within 35 miles of Gurnee, IL (ZIP 60031). Free over $40, $5 otherwise.

Market pickup: grab your order from us at the farmers market. Free. See the Markets page for upcoming dates.

Outside the delivery zone? Fresh mushrooms only ship locally, but our extracts & powders ship anywhere in the US.