[ronbo51]

Originally Posted by raven44

The Maine market prices are higher I'm sure but I wonder if competition is higher as well..??

Washington state has a fair bit of competition but maybe less competition in the smaller niches...

I don't think it matters much where you are, although if you lived near a very large city you could probably scrape together a decent clientele and create a viable business. But in order to be reliable and dependable you need to be at least big enough to sustain the customers you get. I worked 7 days a week and had a rotation of kids from the sustainable Ag program at the University of Maine that picked and packaged and did some of the raw labor. I found that I had to disassociate my lab duties from grow house duties because of potential contamination. I always wore cleanroom suits and was fastidious about hygiene when working in my lab, while the grow building was considered "dirty" all the time. Making spawn and sterilizing sawdust and innoculating bags became my full time job, along with deliveries, farmers markets, and a shitton of other responsibilities. It was a very exciting and unique adventure. I don't regret it. We had groups of schoolkids, high schoolers and college kids come through for tours. The local TV came through and did a segment. One of the coolest things I remember was sometimes when there was a big flush ready to be picked, when you walked into the grow building the air was so full of spores that it looked like fog. Had to wear a respirator.

[WaxyTaxi]

I thought this was badass, gotta check out the underground real estate market in detroit now lol



https://www.bldgblog.com/2009/09/the-...-of-mittagong/

[rootfingers]

Last several years I've been into foraging my fungus and it has been quite enjoyable and fulfilling. Cultivation, however, has always been in the back of my mind so it's great hearing the ways people grow them. All the best to you if you decide to move forward with a mushie farm.

[corky1968]

I need a new pressure cooker before I can get back into this again.

The Shroomery is a very cool website to learn how to grow mushrooms.

It's not only about magic mushrooms. LOLZ

Check it out.

[WaxyTaxi]

thanks RF, I will post some vids/links that I find helpful as I go...

o yea, shroomery is awesome corky. found a really cool reishi grow the other day on trays that looked super easy and efficient.

heres a solid video I found on cloning tissue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM1waH5Reks

[mowood3479]

I heard on an npr podcast yesterday that no one has been able to successfully cultivate truffles..
Why is this?
Seems like it should be possible

[raven44]

That's false. I've met a guy who cultivates truffles. He made 250000 last yr he said

[Betterhaff]

That was said about morels too.

[raven44]

What was said about morels? That they cannot be grown? There is a patent out on morel cult

Morels and truffles just aren't being grown and understood by the masses if mush cult folks. The real scientists know how tho just not all the riffraf lol

[Betterhaff]

Years and years ago it was said that morels couldn’t be cultivated. A patent was awarded for the process in 1986 to Neogen Corp., developed in conjunction with Ronald Ower at San Francisco State.