Small-Scale Mushroom Farming -Starter Guide
Launch into success with low-tech mushroom growing!
- video presentations: 6 hours and 33 minutes
- instructional videos: 34 minutes
- Q&A support
About This Course
Beginner mushroom grower’s biggest challenge is substrates being taken over by pests such as molds, bacteria, yeasts, viruses, or various insects. In some cases beginner grower’s loose up to 50% of their entire mushroom crop and this discourages many beginners. This is learning the hard way and usually comes with effort and expenses. To get to the level of knowledge and experience required to grow mushrooms in a decent way is a long process.
This course is meant to ease your path towards transformation from beginner to advanced. It will show you how to set up your mushroom farm, how to set or build your equipment to ensure proper climate for your mushrooms, ways to get good yields, how to get rid of contamination and pests or how to market your mushrooms – all in one just to help you start you mushroom farming journey.
Who is this for?
- Dedicated to all of those with minimal or intermediate mushroom grow knowledge wanting to start a small-scale low-tech mushroom farm to make profit from selling mushrooms
- Beginner mushroom growers having problems with molds taking over their substrates or other related issues
Why enroll into this?
- To learn how to set up your mushroom farm the right way
- To learn and gain low-tech mushroom growing knowledge so you can avoid the trouble that every beginner gets through when starting a mushroom grow journey without guidance.
- To learn how to get more mushrooms than most beginner growers do
- To understand why molds, bacteria or pests take over and ruin your mushroom production plans
- To learn how to market your mushrooms
- To discover how you can take your mushroom farming experience from stage 0 to stage 1
THE SMALL-SCALE MUSHROOM FARM STARTER PACK CONTENTS
Teaches you how to efficiently set up a small scale mushroom farm using low-tech technology. Explains how a mushroom farm is compartmented, the necessary equipment, and what are the processes done in different areas. It also discusses farm development stages.
Shows what climate systems are being used by startup and professional farms. Explains how to build a low-pressure heat disinfection unit -used for mushroom substrate disinfection; and how to build a humidification system. Also discusses Farm building material advantages and disadvantages
Teaches you how to twist your grow methodology to get several consistent mushroom flushes. Explains you how to run grow trials in order to select competitive mushroom strains.
Discusses what are the common molds taking over the mushroom grow substrates, mold contamination causes, and solutions to avoid, and treat mold related issues
Mites, nematodes or flies are commonly found when growing mushrooms, especially flies. You’ll be learning about causes and solutions meant to decrease their number
Explains you what are the most common fruiting problems and ways to avoid or fix such issues. Fruiting issues discussed: caused by environmental factors, bacteria, viral, and fungus presence.
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
Bonus Modules
Most mushroom farmers don’t allow visitors on their farms just because they want to avoid competition or because they don’t want you to contaminate their farm with molds or bacteria (humans represent vectors for such things). Some will allow you to visit but won’t allow you to take pictures, This makes it hard for a startup grower to get inspiration. This show is about low-tech small-scale mushroom farm that I had the chance to visit. You’ll be able to see and get some inspiration to help you in setting up your own production line,
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.
Launching a small-scale low-tech mushroom production line without proper guidance can be challenging – this will show you how with low investment of only $100 you can start and take your mushroom farming journey from stage 0 to stage 1.
Whether you’ll start to grow mushrooms with $100 or more in your pocket you’ll need to put up a plan. This explains you how in 5 basic steps you can get some mushroom blocks going, how to ensure them proper climate for optimal development, and how to run growth trials to find suitable strains.
Once you got through these 5 steps you’ll be able to sell your first mushrooms at the farmer’s market or local restaurants.
About Your Instructor
I grow mushrooms since 2005. I created this course to share my experience with you and to help you start the right way. When I first started out with growing mushrooms I did it the hard way and I lost a lot of time doing extensive research on how to grow mushrooms, I lost energy and funds in trials that got contaminated with bacteria and molds and many times I got disappointed. I had nobody to guide me but the internet and some books. I lost a lot of time and energy on the internet just browsing through fragmented information that in most cases wasn’t quality information, so I felt like I was playing puzzle and it took me a long time to understand what’s all about with mushroom growing or spawn making. I ran into random issues: molds would take over half of my mushroom blocks, other mushrooms popping instead of the expected mushrooms, weird looking fruitbodies..you name it. For me it was an adventure but honestly, I wouldn’t do it again.
Later, many of the farms I’ve visited were struggling out there to get the results they wanted to get but had no clear guidance. Some were doing much better than others and that’s the moment when I realized what means mentorship. Growing mushrooms is an art and to find the right path requires knowledge and experience. Find out more about me.
Here's What You'll Learn
- 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
READY TO GET STARTED?
JOIN THE CLUB FOR..
$32/month
- Low-tech Mushroom Growing - starter pack
- Spawn Lab Training
- Small-scale Mushroom Farming
- Wild Mushroom Hunting
Training Modules: 50+
Access: 1 training module/week
LEVEL: Beginner
quit anytime you want!
Small-Scale Mushroom Farming -Starter Guide
$150
- video lectures: 35 (6 hours 33 mins.)
- instructional videos: 2 (34 mins.)
- Q&A Support
Training Modules:11
Access: Instant
LEVEL: Beginner
COMMON BEGINNER MISTAKES WHEN THERE'S NO GUIDANCE
That’s what I saw while visiting a startup mushroom farm. These are moldy substrate bags -this turns effort, materials, cost and time into nothing but discouragement
- 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
FAQs
Once you enroll you get instant access to all training modules
No, but you have lifetime access when you purchase instant access to these training modules.
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.
This training was designed for computer/tablet users, and therefore I would encourage you to use your computer/tablet to access the training modules.
For answers to your questions please contact me via the contact form
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