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Yes mushrooms boy
names Tom and in 2019 I quit my job to start growing mushrooms in my mushroom
farms have been opening up all around the world offering customers a local
election when buying fresh mushrooms these mushroom farms generally produce
between about 20 to 200 kilos per week and will serve us a smaller geographic
area it opens for we are one of these boutique type mushroom farms and we
service a small area we grow upwards of about 50 kilos per week of which we
sell to local customers these mushroom farms generally use sawdust or wood
pallets to grow mushrooms.
So basically I arn and
farm guys here and to these guys here to make the substrate their oyster
mushrooms love to eat we first get organic softwood fuel pellets and soy hulls
we mix these two ingredients together ideally into a biodegradable bag then add
water to get the right moisture content.
So I have prepared our 20 bags these have been prepared with our soy hole sour wood chips and our water to give them to the correct moisture content the next step is to get them into our homemade sterilizer which you can just see over in the cover here my books or the drum and we're going to our sterilize these to kill any competing bacteria or perhaps mold that I might be in here.Here we are in our clean room this is quite possibly.
Table of Content
Process of Small Scale
Mushroom Farming
The Most important
part of the process of small-scale mushroom farming so we all dad Drummond to
here now that's in a few days to cool down because the substrate in there got
to about 95 degrees Celsius and it had to have time for that substrate to cool
back down to sort of around the room temperature in this room it's a very small
room we have in front of us what is called a our flow hood now this flow hood
is a blower which blows air through HEPA filters and what that does is cleans
all the contamination or most of the contamination out of the air.
So we can work with
these bags in here with very low chance of bacteria or mold getting into those
bags in our growing now this should mean that our mycelium will be the only
organism in their bag and it gives it the best chance to move through and start
consuming all that substrate so we're going to get this flow hood turned on now
and we're going to leave it for about 30 minutes to just clean some of the ear
in this room so there's are not a lot of dust flying around the next step is to
choose the type of mushroom you want
Today we're going
to use Phoenix oyster this here is a bag of Phoenix oyster spawn and what it is
is a whole lot of grain which has had mushroom mycelium grown all over it we'll
enter those scoops of this into our bags of sterile substrate but you princess
commonplace so we have inoculated all our bags no was you can see here there is
a layer of grain above all are sterile substrate what
I'm going to do now
is is break the substrate up with my hand and mixing this grain into the
substrate and that should hopefully disperse evenly our India it's going to
speed up the colonization time of the mycelia and in about two weeks maybe a
little more we should have a bag this we to grow mushrooms.
Temperature And Shifting
Mushrooms Bags
So all our bags
have been inoculated and we've shifted them out here to our incubation room
this room sits at about our 21 to 22 degrees at all times and that provides a
really good temperature for that to move through the substrate and start
consuming it and after about two weeks these are whole bags will start turning white
is that our micelle i am fully colonizers it to get a lot of fun here we'll get
These young guys to beat and we'll come wake them up in about two weeks after
about seven days the bags will start looking like this you can actually see
with it my cellym is moving through that substrate check this out these are a
mushroom blocks.
That we put in here
two weeks ago as you can see the mycelia has moved through the substrate nicely
fully colonized these bags so we'll shut them through our fruiting chamber near
we'll open up a small hole on the side and we should get a nice lovely bouquet
of fresh mushrooms out of each one of these so we have shifted our bags here
from our incubation room and to our fruiting chamber.
Here now this is
the room we were going to grow the mushrooms in now a fruiting chamber must
have four important things and must have a temperature between a certain range
it must have a very high humidity you must have our lights in the room which
are on a certain spectrum and you must have a low co2 parts per million and the
room so most mushroom fruiting chambers there people use they control all four
of these speaks in them.
Now if we open up
our mushroom bags to that environment which we create inside this room these
mushroom bags will start producing the mushrooms we want from them now to get
them to start growing their mushrooms all we do as we go to the face of each
bag and we cut a small hole at about that big some people make a slit I like to
cut a little hole and we are that that mycelia and substrate that's the fresh
air and the humidity over the face of it that exposed mycelium that will start
growing its mushrooms and after about one week of having this small area
exposed.
Ready to Harvest and
Sell
The Most important
part of the process of small-scale mushroom farming so we all dad Drummond to
here now that's in a few days to cool down because the substrate in there got
to about 95 degrees Celsius and it had to have time for that substrate to cool
back down to sort of around the room temperature in this room it's a very small
room we have in front of us what is called a our flow hood now this flow hood
is a blower which blows air through HEPA filters and what that does is cleans
all the contamination or most of the contamination out of the air.
So we can work with
these bags in here with very low chance of bacteria or mold getting into those
bags in our growing now this should mean that our mycelium will be the only
organism in their bag and it gives it the best chance to move through and start
consuming all that substrate so we're going to get this flow hood turned on now
and we're going to leave it for about 30 minutes to just clean some of the ear
in this room so there's are not a lot of dust flying around the next step is to
choose the type of mushroom you want
Today we're going to use Phoenix oyster this here is a bag of Phoenix oyster spawn and what it is is a whole lot of grain which has had mushroom mycelium grown all over it we'll enter those scoops of this into our bags of sterile substrate but you princess commonplace so we have inoculated all our bags no was you can see here there is a layer of grain above all are sterile substrate what
I'm going to do now is is break the substrate up with my hand and mixing this grain into the substrate and that should hopefully disperse evenly our India it's going to speed up the colonization time of the mycelia and in about two weeks maybe a little more we should have a bag this we to grow mushrooms.
Today we're going to use Phoenix oyster this here is a bag of Phoenix oyster spawn and what it is is a whole lot of grain which has had mushroom mycelium grown all over it we'll enter those scoops of this into our bags of sterile substrate but you princess commonplace so we have inoculated all our bags no was you can see here there is a layer of grain above all are sterile substrate what
I'm going to do now is is break the substrate up with my hand and mixing this grain into the substrate and that should hopefully disperse evenly our India it's going to speed up the colonization time of the mycelia and in about two weeks maybe a little more we should have a bag this we to grow mushrooms.
Temperature And Shifting Mushrooms Bags
So all our bags
have been inoculated and we've shifted them out here to our incubation room
this room sits at about our 21 to 22 degrees at all times and that provides a
really good temperature for that to move through the substrate and start
consuming it and after about two weeks these are whole bags will start turning white
is that our micelle i am fully colonizers it to get a lot of fun here we'll get
These young guys to beat and we'll come wake them up in about two weeks after
about seven days the bags will start looking like this you can actually see
with it my cellym is moving through that substrate check this out these are a
mushroom blocks.
That we put in here two weeks ago as you can see the mycelia has moved through the substrate nicely fully colonized these bags so we'll shut them through our fruiting chamber near we'll open up a small hole on the side and we should get a nice lovely bouquet of fresh mushrooms out of each one of these so we have shifted our bags here from our incubation room and to our fruiting chamber.
Here now this is the room we were going to grow the mushrooms in now a fruiting chamber must have four important things and must have a temperature between a certain range it must have a very high humidity you must have our lights in the room which are on a certain spectrum and you must have a low co2 parts per million and the room so most mushroom fruiting chambers there people use they control all four of these speaks in them.
Now if we open up our mushroom bags to that environment which we create inside this room these mushroom bags will start producing the mushrooms we want from them now to get them to start growing their mushrooms all we do as we go to the face of each bag and we cut a small hole at about that big some people make a slit I like to cut a little hole and we are that that mycelia and substrate that's the fresh air and the humidity over the face of it that exposed mycelium that will start growing its mushrooms and after about one week of having this small area exposed.
That we put in here two weeks ago as you can see the mycelia has moved through the substrate nicely fully colonized these bags so we'll shut them through our fruiting chamber near we'll open up a small hole on the side and we should get a nice lovely bouquet of fresh mushrooms out of each one of these so we have shifted our bags here from our incubation room and to our fruiting chamber.
Here now this is the room we were going to grow the mushrooms in now a fruiting chamber must have four important things and must have a temperature between a certain range it must have a very high humidity you must have our lights in the room which are on a certain spectrum and you must have a low co2 parts per million and the room so most mushroom fruiting chambers there people use they control all four of these speaks in them.
Now if we open up our mushroom bags to that environment which we create inside this room these mushroom bags will start producing the mushrooms we want from them now to get them to start growing their mushrooms all we do as we go to the face of each bag and we cut a small hole at about that big some people make a slit I like to cut a little hole and we are that that mycelia and substrate that's the fresh air and the humidity over the face of it that exposed mycelium that will start growing its mushrooms and after about one week of having this small area exposed.
We should go from
this to this so these are all bags I've put in here deadly one week ago today
and you can see they've all got beautiful bundles of mushrooms hanging off the
front of them so today after I finish this fall here I'm going to go and
harvest all these Reedy mushrooms some of them are reading now some of them
will be ready tomorrow morning the space cowboy was very Cuban who said but the
truth princess said that was beyond his control that is the process of growing
mushrooms from start to finish you know.
So we have one more thing to do to really be successful in us and let's actually sell our mushrooms so with a load up our being here their mushrooms will it take them down to the local market we're going to see just how many sales we can get neither boys tomorrow so we are down at the market today.
I made seven hundred and thirty dollars I like to sew our mushrooms and trays often and twenty dollars on a good day we can do a thousand dollars at net market so 730 is pretty good for us we do like a bit more but we had were your 7:30 growing mushrooms is fun and challenging and if you've never done it before I Recommend you to try this at your home you never know it could be your new career.
So we have one more thing to do to really be successful in us and let's actually sell our mushrooms so with a load up our being here their mushrooms will it take them down to the local market we're going to see just how many sales we can get neither boys tomorrow so we are down at the market today.
I made seven hundred and thirty dollars I like to sew our mushrooms and trays often and twenty dollars on a good day we can do a thousand dollars at net market so 730 is pretty good for us we do like a bit more but we had were your 7:30 growing mushrooms is fun and challenging and if you've never done it before I Recommend you to try this at your home you never know it could be your new career.
Conclusion
Start producing the
mushrooms we want from them now to get them to start growing their mushrooms
all we do as we go to the face of each bag and we cut a small hole at about
that big some people make a slit I like to cut a little hole and we are that
that mycelia and substrate that's the fresh air and the humidity over the face
of it that exposed mycelium that will start growing its mushrooms and after
about one week of having this small area exposed we should go from this to this
so these are all bags I've put in here deadly one week ago today and you can
see they've all got beautiful bundles of mushrooms hanging off the front of
them so today after I finish this fall here I'm going to go and harvest all
these Reedy mushrooms some of them are reading now some of them will be ready
tomorrow morning the space cowboy was very Cuban who said but the truth
princess said that was beyond his control that is the process of growing
mushrooms from start to finish you know so we have one more thing to do to
really be successful in us and let's actually sell our mushrooms so with a load
up our being here their mushrooms will it take them down to the local market
we're going to see just how many sales we can get neither boys tomorrow so we
are down at the market today I made seven hundred and thirty dollars I like to
sew our mushrooms and trays often and twenty dollars on a good day we can do a
thousand dollars at net market so 730 is pretty good for us we do like a bit
more but we had were your 7:30 growing mushrooms is fun and challenging and if
you've never done it before I Recommend you to try this at your home you never
know it could be your new career in 2021.