About Us

FOREST FLOOR™ - FOREST FLOOR LLC

In 1997, Daniel and Matt built their first mushroom-growing device. They didn’t know it then, but they were planting the seed for something much larger. Nearly three decades—and over 50 years of combined experience in design, engineering, and experimentation—have brought them full circle, back to the same question: How do we make mushrooms easier to grow, for everyone?

Forest Floor exists to answer that question. The Model 101 is our response: a new kind of home appliance—equal parts tool, environment, and collaborator. It’s designed not just to grow mushrooms, but to redefine how people interact with the living world around them. We believe the future will be built from the ground up, one grow at a time.

Our Founders

Matthew Flansburg, Co-Founder, Principal, & Product Wizard-in-Chief (CEO)

Matt sees the world like a puzzle worth solving—one made of patterns, symbols, and strange possibilities. Trained in physics but shaped just as much by art, loss, and late-night experiments, he’s spent his life building things that didn’t exist yet. The first mushroom box he built with Daniel in college was a prototype in more ways than one. Forest Floor is the continuation of that blueprint: a tool for growth, a quiet rebellion against centralized systems, and an invitation to think differently about what’s possible beneath our feet.

Daniel Billotte, Co-Founder & CTO

Raised by an engineer and an artist, Daniel has always lived between worlds—logic and intuition, science and spirit. He’s spent his life chasing questions that don’t have easy answers, building strange projects with people he trusts, and exploring the outer edges of consciousness and technology. Forest Floor is the long arc of a friendship, a question that wouldn’t go away, and the belief that mushrooms can change everything.