Grush
Riverside, California
Umbrella · four ventures

Fungi that work, watched by software that listens.

Grush is the umbrella. Underneath it, three ventures feed each other in a loop — research, biomass, data — and a fourth waits its turn.

Grush CBU’s sphere of control exchange potential CBU external · owner Lancer Farms the garden · site fungAI knows Fun Guy Fungi grows Grush software reads Lancer Farms deployment · live Cottages dormant Grush
venture venture + deployment gold — opens a site silver — outside Grush, no link dormant

fungAI learns what fungi can do. Fun Guy Fungi grows the organism it needs. Grush software records what the organism does — and that data feeds the research again. Each one needs the other two.

reads
venture

Grush software

Farm management software for growing sites. Staff log work by tapping, not typing; tasks age themselves; visitors get a read-only window into what the site is doing. Every deployment carries a live status panel.

owner Chad Pattengale type venture
Lancer Farmslancerfarms.com ↗ owner: Chad Pattengale · site: Lancer Farms & Gardens, owned by CBU
Live
Fun Guy Fungifunguyfungi.org ↗ owner: Chad Pattengale · site: none yet
In development

The deployments index grows as sites come online. Each one is listed with its owner, its site, and its honest status. The software is always Chad’s; the ground it runs on may not be.

grows
venture · deployment

Fun Guy Fungifunguyfungi.org ↗

A mobile container garden business growing specialty mushrooms. It has an owner, a species plan, and a floor plan. It does not have a home yet — the software ran ahead of the farm on purpose. Proof before land, bench before container.

owner Chad Pattengale site none yet status in development

Fun Guy Fungi is the only node that is both a venture and a Grush deployment. It grows the organism the research runs on, and it runs the software that watches it.

knows
venture

fungAI

The research branch. Fungi as instruments: reading the signals they propagate through their environment, and asking whether mycorrhizal networks can be monitored across large geography in response to stimulus.

  • Fungi as a sensor
  • Fungi as an environmental remediator
  • Fungi as a consumable — culinary
  • Fungi as a consumable — cosmetic
  • Fungi as a consumable — pharmaceutical
owner Chad Pattengale type venture

This work is theoretical. Nothing here is a finding — it is a set of questions being set up to be answered honestly, or not at all.

paused
venture

Cottages

A line of specialized container buildings, designed by applying the other three ventures to the buildings themselves. Downstream of the loop: it consumes what the others produce, so it waits until they produce something worth applying.

owner Chad Pattengale status dormant

Long-term. On the back burner by choice, not by neglect.