About Our Mushrooms
MindFuel was born at our kitchen table—and built in between practices, road trips, late-night conversations, and long weekends on the road.
We’re Casey, Lia, Riley, Peter and Loung Lou (Uncle in Thai). We’re a close-knit family that believes food matters, effort matters, and showing up for each other matters most. Our family is more than blood, it's the people and the community who give us joy and happiness.
Lia and Riley are our athletes through and through. They play hockey, softball, and soccer—but hockey has our hearts. It also has us living out of rink bags, coolers, and hotel breakfasts for six-plus months every year. If you’ve ever spent every weekend chasing early morning puck drops and late-night games, you get it. Those long weekends were a big part of why MindFuel exists.
The spark for Lion’s Mane Jerky came while Lou was harvesting mushrooms with us for local farmers markets. Standing there, hands full of fresh Lion’s Mane, he asked a simple question: Why isn’t there a savory, portable snack that actually uses functional mushrooms and tastes great? Lou didn’t just ask the question; he went to work finding the answer. He took his chef's intuition into the kitchen, experimenting with textures and flavors, spending countless hours at the stove perfecting the original recipe for our Lion's Mane Jerky; unlocking a flavor that was savory, satisfying, and completely unique.
That moment turned into an idea—and that idea turned into MindFuel.
We wanted snacks that could keep up with real life—clean, functional, and genuinely nourishing. Food we felt great handing to our kids between games and grabbing ourselves somewhere between the rink, the car, and the next town. No junk. No shortcuts. No pretending.
So we built MindFuel together. As a family, we read labels. We debate flavors (sometimes passionately). We test everything. We care deeply about ingredients, sourcing, and how our food is made—because our kids are watching, and because integrity matters.
MindFuel is more than a snack brand. It’s a reflection of how we live:
- Fuel your body for the long haul
- Feed your brain, not just your cravings
- Stay curious, stay active
- And do it all together.
If you’re here, chances are you’re juggling a full life too. We’re really glad you found us—and we hope MindFuel becomes part of your family’s journey, just like it is ours.
Born out of a passion for quality & commitment to the land
MindFuel Snacks was founded by a group of individuals with extensive backgrounds in farming and business.
Together we are committed to a vision of cultivating the highest quality produce while continuing the tradition to protect the earth.
This led to the purchase of the 118-acre historical farm where MindFuel Snacks are created and Timberwoods Farm produce are grown.
The land is old, but the crops are new
The three of us, the founders of MindFuel Snacks and Timberwoods Farm, are continually impressed with the beauty and peacefulness of our new home. Each of us has embraced the unspoken covenant to protect, to enhance, to share the preciousness embodied in this land.
We are, of course, a business, and our goal is to be a long-lived business, but we will do so in as gentle a way as possible. We envision the cultivation of our organic, natural produce as a vehicle to preserve the integrity of this land. Old Land, Storied History – New Future to Preserve the Old.
A 200+ Year Old Historical Estate in New England
Timberwoods Farm, the farm that supports MindFuel Snacks, itself is a long-established name, dating all the way back to 1826, when the farm was settled in S. Paris, Maine. We have successfully retrofitted the now 200-year-old barn to be our state-of-the-art indoor grow facility. Currently our grow rooms use radiant heat supplied by our outdoor furnace using timber from trees that have reached the end of their lives. Our industrial kitchen is where we take our home grown lion's mane and turn it into small batch, hand torn Lion's Mane Jerky.
The original farmhouse dates from 1826, approximately 30 years after the incorporation of S. Paris, ME, the small town in which it is located. The barn and other additions were completed no later than 1832, so our facility is housed in almost two-hundred-year-old digs. We are currently retrofitting the barn to house our indoor growing rooms, and the amount of work we have undertaken is extensive. New insulation, new wiring, irrigation, state-of-the-art lighting, and tables. Very little expense has been spared, as our goal is to produce the highest quality, organic and holistic products available in the State of Maine.