Ecovative's Mushroom Tiny House

Edit: 12/20/24 - updated links to buy Ecovative kits.

How's your little mushroom house going to stand up to that kind of an attack?

From their MushroomTinyHouse.com website

Ecovative uses mycelium (mushroom “roots”) to bond together agricultural byproducts like corn stalks into a material that can replace plastic foam. We’ve been selling it for a few years as protective packaging, helping big companies replace thousands of Styrofoam (EPS), and other plastic foam packaging parts. We’re now working to develop new products for building materials.

Here’s how it works. Mushroom Insulation grows into wood forms over the course of a few days, forming an airtight seal. It dries over the next month (kind of like how concrete cures) and you are left with an airtight wall that is extremely strong. Best yet, it saves on material costs, as you don’t need any studs in the wall, and it gives you great thermal performance since it’s one continuous insulated wall assembly. The finished Mushroom® Insulation is also fire resistant and very environmentally friendly.

In all honesty, that's a pretty exciting swap - fiberglass insulation or styrofoam packaging material for mycelium. That's going to be a heck of a lot easier to dispose of at the end of the material's life.



This is the part that excites me most for a material science classroom. They offer grow-it-yourself kits to make the ecovative material at home.


The giy.ecovative.com link doesn't work anymore. Instead, try these links. Yes, but what if somebody comes at your house with a pizza oven and some pepperoni?