Before food, before fashion—we pioneered mycelium manufacturing. These products proved the platform and opened doors.
Grown in 7 days. Composts in 45.
Mushroom® Packaging uses agricultural waste and mycelium to create protective packaging that replaces petroleum-based foams. The material grows to shape in just 7 days and composts completely in 45 days—leaving nothing behind but soil nutrients.
This was Ecovative's first commercial product and the foundation that proved mycelium could be manufactured at scale. After years of development and global deployment, we open-sourced the core technology to accelerate adoption worldwide.
Building Materials for a Low-Carbon Future
Mycelium-based construction materials were Ecovative's founding vision. In 2007, Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre set out to replace petroleum-based insulation with something that could be grown from agricultural waste.
The result: fire-resistant, carbon-negative building materials that sequester carbon both during growth and throughout their installed lifetime.
Empowering Mycelium Creators
Grow.bio operations are currently suspended as we focus resources on commercial food production. The platform and community remain—seeds planted for future cultivation.
Grow.bio is our initiative to democratize mycelium technology. We provide the tools, knowledge, and community support for anyone to harness the power of mycelium—from backyard experimenters to design students to entrepreneurs prototyping new products.
The platform emerged from a core belief: the future of materials shouldn't be locked inside corporate labs.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Since 2018, Grow.bio has shipped kits to makers, designers, students, and researchers around the world. Projects spawned by our community have appeared in: