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Keep the Wild Close.

Wild foods, Headwater, mushroom education, guided forays, dinners, pop-ups, and weekends in the woods—all rooted in decades of real field experience.

Choose Your Path Into the Wild

Wild mushrooms and other wild foods on a table

Seasonal wild ingredients, specialty mushrooms, and curated field goods sourced through long-standing relationships across the country and the world.

Blueberry Chaga and Tangerine Lion’s Mane Headwater cans beside a mountain lake.

Lightly sparkling, fruit-forward, and caffeine-free with no mushroom taste. 22 calories and 2 g sugar per 12 oz can.

Fungal Academy: morel, chanterelle, maitake, and lobster mushroom identification courses, $29 each.

Four photo-rich online courses that teach mushroom identification with field-tested guidance from Mike Kempenich.

Participants walking through the woods on a guided Gentleman Forager mushroom foray.

Guided forays, seasonal dinners, classes, and gatherings that bring wild food knowledge to life.

For Chefs & Restaurants

Seasonal wild mushrooms and specialty foods for your kitchen. Tell us what you need, and we’ll talk availability, sourcing, and delivery.

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A smarter way to hydrate

Lightly sparkling and fruit-forward, with one certified-organic mushroom fruiting-body extract per variety, plus L-theanine and vitamin C. Caffeine-free, no mushroom taste, 22 calories, and 2 g sugar per 12 oz can.

Headwater Tangerine Lion’s Mane and Blueberry Chaga beverage cans with filled glasses

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Nationally Recognized Wild Food Expert.
 

Mike Kempenich brings more than 40 years of foraging experience and over 15 years of commercial mushroom cultivation and wild-food supply. He founded Gentleman Forager and Forest to Fork.

He has taught thousands of students, including mushroom identification courses at the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.

Mike has appeared on State Plate with Taylor Hicks, and his work has been featured in Bon Appétit, MarketWatch, Discover, and Outdoor Life.

The first wild foods grocer in the nation
Mike Kempenich teaching a mushroom class

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