LOW-TECH MUSHROOM GROWER TRAINING
Teaches you how to grow specialty mushrooms using a low-tech approach
Teaches you general mycology lab techniques including spawn making
Teaches you how to start a small-scale mushroom farm and market your mushrooms
Teaches you the basics of the mushroom farming business
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Low-tech Mushroom Growing
- What you need to know before starting out with mushroom growing;
- What's the proper mushroom technique for the mushrooms you want to grow;
- How to pair the mushrooms you want to grow with the right substrate -how to fromulate mushroom grow recipes;
- How to grow different types of mushrooms (mushrooms that require simple substrates/supplemented substrates/casing layer);
- How to grow mushrooms using the hydrated lime method
- Sustainable mushroom cultivation - the 0% waste model and the integration of mushrooms in a permaculture design model;;
- How to start a mushroom patch outdoors and how to grow mushrooms in the garden;
- How to grow mushrooms on logs and stumps.
- Shows you how to build a small capacity grow chamber important in offering your mushrooms the climate conditions they need (suitable for home growers)
- General information on some of the commercial and medicinal grown mushrooms;
- How to differentiate between good and bad spawn, where to purchase and how to work with mushroom spawn;
- You'll learn even more through experimental projects and the quizzes included in this course
Small-scale Mushroom Farming
- How to set up a small-scale mushroom farm using low investment (=low-tech)
- Mushroom farm development stages to give you an idea on how to grow your mushroom farming business
- You'll learn about low-tech and professional equipments used in mushroom farming
- How to build a low-rpessure unit to disinfect nutritious substrates used in growing shiitake, lion's mane, chestnut mushrooms and others
- How to build a humidification system
- How to insulate your growroom to cut heating costs
- How to get several consistent mushroom flushes
- How to run growth trials to find reliable mushroom strains for your production line
- Environmental factors shape your mushroom fruitbodies, you'll learn about lack of fruiting, distorted fruitbodies, and more. Causes and how to fix such issues
- What are the most common molds, why they pop in mushroom grow substrates and how to reduce their impact
- Flies and other pests like mites or nematodes are commonly found on farms, you'll learn how to decrease their impact on your mushroom crop
- What's the smart way of starting a mushroom grow business and what's the mushroom industry potential
- You'll discover what's the market value of specialty mushrooms, and how to market them
- You'll learn how to ensure a healthy growth of your mushroom business (key factors for success)
- You'll get inspiration from watching the inside of a low-tech mushroom farm
- Just in case you want to start growing mushrooms with just $100 in your pocket, you'll get guidance on how to take your journey from stage 0 to stage 1 - and sell your first pack of mushrooms
Spawn Lab Training
- How to make quality mushroom grain spawn using low-tech technology
- How to make quality mushroom sawdust spawn
- You'll learn all you need to know about effcient spawn storage
- About food requirement of fungi and factors influencing fungus growth - essential to give your strains what they need
- The step-by-step process of preparing Agar-based media
- How to make liquid media so you can cut processing time when you want to colonize substrate bags
- The step-by-step process of cloning wild and grown mushroom strains
- How to make spore prints, germinate spores to get new fungus strains
- How to perform correct fungus tissue transfers under the flow-hood
- How to set up a pure culture bank, how to organize your fungi and how to store them
- You'll learn what are the common competitor organisms, affecting spawn and fungus cultures, causes and solutions on how to decrease their impact
Mushroom Business Basics
- Gives you an outline of what's the business potential of mushroom growing starting with low investment. Teaches you how to start the smart way
- Teaches the market value of specialty mushrooms depending on various features (texture, color, caps size, shelf life, consistency, flavor, etc). Discusses both, production and market demand of mushrooms,
- Explains what you need to pay attention to in order to ensure successful mushroom farming. You'll be learning how to set up a roadmap, how to configure your company, how to balance production and demand, key factors for success
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- 50 + Training Modules
- Knowledge Test Quizzes
- Experimental Projects
- Selected Resources
LEVEL: Beginner
‘Trust me, it is worth it if you’re serious about the quality of the information you want to learn from. Don’t waste your time going anywhere else, stick with Dr. T!!!
Thank you SO MUCH for putting this together!!
-Regina’
SO..WHAT'S THIS KNOWLEDGE GOING TO GET YOU
- First of all you won't need to score the entire internet for bits of information of questionable quality -so by this you'll earn time, energy and won't loose funds on materials that you'll use in your challenging beginner mushroom grow journey.
- This knowldege comes with practical projects that you may start if you want and they are meant to build you with the necessary experience for you to understand what's beyond the mushroom growing process. You'll also be able to check your knowledge on the way via quizzes.
- The training was designed to get you through different stages on your mushroom journey from beginner to intermediate and then master mushroom grower able to make his own spawn, grow different mushroom varieties and set up a mushroom farm; however, you may start with the stage you want
- The entire training follows a low-tech approach and focuses on both needs, for the home mushroom grower and for the entrepreneur wanting to grow mushrooms for profit.
Meet Your Instructor
I’m Dr T and I grow mushrooms since 2005. I started my consultant career in 2014 when I worked with several startups and mushroom farms as an advisor -this was part of my job with a company selling mushroom spawn and medicinal mushrooms. At the same company I worked as instructor in clean room techniques and mushroom growing, and instructed many national and international students. In 2015 I had the chance to visit multiple farms located on the US West Coast. In 2017 I started to consult with a startup mushroom farm in Barbados then, with several others across California, doing both online and on site consulting. Find out more about me.
Why Low-Tech?
Mushrooms don’t need fancy equipment to grow, what they need is for you to provide them conditions for proper development which may be achieved by using low-tech equipment. Low-Tech means low-cost which is the ideal state for every beginner grower wanting to start a mushroom farm for self sufficiency, or business. This also involves fun projects, and requires growers to have a certain degree of creativity.
Here's What Others Have To Say About The Help They Got
“Although I’m not a mushroom cultivation beginner I found Daniel’s overview on mushroom cultivation captivating and with some novel details. He uses simple terminology, the material is easy to follow, and I felt indrawn in his story. Excellent base to begin with! Maybe I am too much into mushrooms, however, there is always something to learn and Daniel has real experience in this field and the passion to show and share it! Thank you, Daniel” – Jovana V., PhD in mushroom science, Serbia
Having completed the first lesson (week 1) there is the feeling that growing mushrooms is a bit like paint by numbers with a “But”. That but is that while it is easy to get started BUT, it is not that easy to get it all right first go. Dr T sets the scene for what will ultimately, I think, prove to be a worth white course. Even if I can increase my yield by a kilo, It has paid for the course. – Paul F., Australia
“Dr Tura’s Online class really helped me round out my knowledge of basic mushroom cultivation. I learned the fundamentals to a functional and clean workspace, the why’s, how’s, and what’s to spawn production, and even how to build an affordable laminar flow hood. The program is designed for the curious mycophile starting out or for that hobby grower that needs to re-evaluate their processes.” Michael Heim – Boulder, CO
I love Your courses very informative. -Reiner K., Austria
“I just wanted to show you what we cooked up. Thanks for the course, it really helped a lot.
Yeah she took a lot of effort, very stoked with the outcome (and the 3m filters doing what they are supposed to).”
Byron, South Africa
COMMON BEGINNER MISTAKES WHEN THERE'S NO GUIDANCE
That’s what I saw while visiting a startup mushroom farm. The owner didn’t know what’s going on whit his oyster mushroom columns. Many beginner mushroom growers out there get into such issues
- You might pick a weak strain that gets you poor results and gets you discouraged
- You purchase bad spawn from an unreliable source -this will mess up your mushroom grow project
- There are several mushroom grow methods out there and you might pick one that doesn't work for you
- There are different types of containers out there but you pick one that doesn't suit your project
- You don't exactly know how to set up your small growroom
- You run into issues like molds or bacteria taking over 20% or more of your substrate
- You got your project going and you realize that you lost time, energy and materials because it didn't work as expected
- You've got mushrooms but they are very few and small
- Your mushrooms look kinda funky and you don't know why
- You've got other mushrooms instead of what you wanted
- Your mushrooms popped but dried up
- You have fly and other pest issues but don't know how to control them, etc.
- Your bags look kinda funky and didn't fruit
Low-Tech Mushroom Grower Training
FAQs
Once you enroll you get instant access to all training modules
No, you just get access to them in order to learn from them
The info includes the following: video presentations (power point and in front of the blackboard presentations -80%), step-by-step instructional video, text & pictures, and quizzes.
For answers to your questions please contact me via the contact form
STUDENT REVIEWS
Expert knowledge from top to bottom!
This is designed to be useful to any and everyone! I considered the monthly subscription but decided to purchase The Starter Base Pack instead since I currently have a lot of time to dedicate to learning the material. I am beyond happy with this decision and I feel very grateful to have access to so much knowledge and wisdom. This is an amazing opportunity and I strongly encourage anyone who is undecided to just take the jump and get this!
There’s projects if you’re a hands-on learner, videos if you’re a visual learner, in-depth instructions if you’re more suited to reading, and it’s all very down-to-earth and entirely within anyone’s reach to comprehend. I look forward to purchasing the rest of the courses when I’m ready and just feel very lucky to have found this at all. Trust me, it is worth it if you’re serious about the quality of the information you want to learn from. Don’t waste your time going anywhere else, stick with Dr. T!!!
Thank you SO MUCH for putting this together!!
Captivating!
Although I’m not a mushroom cultivation beginner, I found Daniel’s overview on mushroom cultivation captivating and with some novel details. He uses simple terminology, the material is easy to follow, and I felt drawn into his story. Excellent base to begin with! Maybe I am too much into mushrooms, however, there is always something to learn and Daniel has real experience in this field and the passion to show and share it. Thank you Daniel!
East as paint by numbers but with a but of a challenge
Having completed the first lesson (week 1) there is the feeling that growing mushrooms is a bit like paint by numbers with a “But”. That but is that while it is easy to get started BUT, it is not that easy to get it all right first go. Dr T sets the scene for what will ultimately, I think, prove to be a worth white course. Even if I can increase my yield by a kilo, It has paid for the course.
Having has some initial difficulty logging in, the quick response and goo advice had me learning very quickly
how to start your mushroom farm
Start with easiest way of growing mushroom and learn from there, get to know step by step, and so on until you get ready for the next step. love what you do and you will get it back soon.