Malama Mushrooms is a family owned, superfood mushroom company based in Kona, Hawaiʻi. Mālama first started in 2015 on a small farm. Ben produced his first mushrooms while living there in a mango-tree house. He utilized an underground cave to cultivate his first mushrooms. Today,he has wrangled in his family and friends to help his mushroom mission of creating & sharing fung-tional superfood mushroom products that integrate easily into daily routines. Additionally, he has formed a non-profit, the Hawaii Fungi Project, devoted to studying & characterizing the rare native mushrooms of Hawaii before they're lost due to climate change or invasive species.