At the Roots of Aloha Medicinals

Aloha Medicinals started out on the island of Maui by a group of scientists and health care experts interested in growing Reishi, Cordyceps, and other medicinally important mushroom species. With our first lab built in the spring of 1999 in Haiku, Maui, Aloha Medicinals was focused on producing organic cordyceps and medicinal mushrooms of the highest quality right from the beginning. This approach quickly paid off with customer demand. In the Spring of 2002, the company moved to Santa Cruz, California, where we took over the Sunrise Spawn Company, which had originally been the Stoller Research Laboratory.

Dr. Benjamin Stoller, who started Stoller Research in Santa Cruz back in 1955, was one of the pioneers in the field of Mushroom cultivation, especially the cultivation of button mushrooms. When Aloha Medicinals took over the research facility we gained a fully qualified staff, manufacturing equipment, and we also inherited all of Dr. Stoller’s original research material on mushrooms.