The grow shed at Brook Farm, racked floor to ceiling
Grown in Essex, England

We grow every mushroom
in this bottle.

British Lion's Mane, fruiting body only, grown on our own farm and encapsulated in small batches.

Fruiting body only| UK lab tested| Grown on our own farm
Pure Pantry Lion's Mane on the worktop
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From spore to bottle

One building, start to finish.

The mushrooms are grown, harvested, dried and encapsulated by us. We control everything on our own farm to ensure the highest grade and quality is within your capsules.

We're filming the whole process — unedited and unnarrated, so you can judge it for yourself. It will live here as soon as it's cut.

1farm, one ingredient
6steps, all done here
0added fillers or flow agents
The process

Six steps, one building.

Every stage happens on the farm. Nothing is sent out for processing and nothing arrives as powder.

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Liquid culture jars on the shelf at Brook Farm

01Inoculate

Sterilised substrate is inoculated with Lion's Mane spawn.

Substrate blocks on racking in the fruiting room

02Fruit

Blocks move to the fruiting room. Humidity and airflow held steady for roughly 2 weeks.

A mature Lion's Mane fruiting body ready to pick

03Harvest

Picked by hand at full maturity. Fruiting bodies only — the substrate never goes into the bottle.

Harvested Lion's Mane on the drying racks

04Dry

We have a special way of drying our mushrooms to make sure your capsules are the highest quality. Then straight to the mill.

The encapsulator filling a capsule plate

05Mill & fill

Milled to a fine powder and filled into vegan capsules. One ingredient in, one ingredient out.

The finished Lion's Mane bottle, sealed and labelled

06Bottle

Sealed, batch-numbered, sampled and sent to you.

Buying well

Four questions worth asking any brand.

Lion's Mane is sold in very different forms at similar prices. Here's what separates them and our answer to each. Ask us anything we haven't covered.

Fruiting body, or mycelium on grain?

Lion's Mane is sold both ways. Where mycelium is grown on grain, the two are milled together and the grain ends up in the capsule.

Ours: fruiting body only

Grown where, exactly?

"Made in the UK" can describe powder grown elsewhere and packed here. Where it grew and where it was packed are separate questions.

Ours: grown on our own farm in Essex

What else is in the capsule?

Flow agents, bulking agents and anti-caking agents are common, and rarely prominent on the label.

Ours: mushroom, and the capsule

Who tests it, and how often?

Some brands test once and quote it for years. Growing conditions change batch to batch, so testing should too.

Ours: a UK lab tests every batch
How a subscription works

No surprises, and no small print.

01

You subscribe

One bottle a month, guaranteed. Two months minimum, then cancel whenever you like.

02

We set yours aside

When a batch comes out of the fruiting room, subscriber bottles are put by before it goes on general sale.

03

It ships, free

Subscribers get their bottle shipped for free.

The honest bit

We can only make so much of it.

That's a growing cycle, not a policy. The fruiting rooms hold what they hold, and mushrooms take the time they take. We're building more capacity, but it comes online slowly and we will never buy in powder to fill a gap.

That is the whole reason a subscription exists here. Subscribers are set aside from each batch first — not as a perk, but because it's the only way we can promise you a bottle while we're this size.

Racking in the fruiting room at Brook Farm
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Sixty capsules either way. The only difference is whether we put one by for you.

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£30.00/ 60 capsules

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  • Standard UK delivery plus shipping fee
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“Finally a nutritional company that you can trust and know where it comes from. I find the capsules are working well and looking forward to see new products launched”
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There aren't many reviews yet — Pure Pantry started in 2025. Rather than borrow credibility from somewhere else, we'd rather show you the fruiting rooms and let the mushroom make the case.

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