Short answer … Yes. Long answer … it’s complicated. While the cultivation of, for example, shiitake or oyster mushroom are well established the truffle, cultivation is on its way. That was at least my first impression when I started my research. But I was taught better. The leading cause of that, I reasoned, is the … Continue reading Can Truffles be Cultivated?
Contamination is a devastating problem in mushroom cultivation. Besides, we, as humans, animals, and especially insects, can spread disease. In this article, I will provide you with tools and tactics to first prevent contamination happening, and second to cover if it already happened. These tools range from cheap and easy up to more advanced and … Continue reading 18 Ways to Keep Pests in Check
When it comes to packaging, many farmers don't spend much time thinking about it. At least that is what I have experienced in the past. Most of them just look at what other farmers are using and stick to it. While this seems to make sense, it often doesn't. Mainly because new mushroom farmers don't … Continue reading How to Store and Transport Your Mushrooms Properly
Hi, and welcome to sterilization 201. If you are new to this topic or to growing mushrooms in general, I put some great content for you together in my article Things to know before starting a mushroom farm. Let’s get started. DEFINITION of STERILIZATION Before we can grow mushrooms, the substrate has to be sterilized … Continue reading How your Sterilization Method will Impact your Mushroom Yield
Welcome. If you are coming directly from my article Things to know before starting a mushroom farm and want to learn more about substrates, supplementation, and sterilization than go ahead. If you are coming directly to this site and you do not have read the article, I highly recommend reading it first. The article gives … Continue reading How Substrate Influences your Mushroom Yield
Welcome! If you're new to this site and topic, I suggest that you stop reading this article and recommend that you read first the following three articles. In these articles, I put all my effort to provide you the best and fast learning curve. More about the relationships of all the factors which make mushroom … Continue reading How your Inoculation Method can Impact your Mushroom Yield!
While the title seems clickbaity, it’s actually not. Bare with me, and I will tell you why your substrate really can boost your income. Let’s go right into it. When it comes to money, the secret is to know how you can get more out of what you already have. This doesn’t mean that you … Continue reading How You can Get More (Money) Out of Your Substrate!
In order to sell mushrooms, you must have continuous production of mushrooms going on. To achieve that you need a tight contamination control. In the next paragraphs, I will talk about different aspects of it. In this article, I will talk about the about six vectors of contamination which Paul Stamets talks about in his … Continue reading How Do I Prevent Contamination?
If you start asking this kind of question, it's likely, you have already a good understanding of the basics of mushroom cultivation. You got familiar with substrate, sterilization, and cultivation parameter. But now you come to the point that you are wondering if you could get more out of the money that you spent on … Continue reading How Do I Increase My Mushroom Yield?
When it comes to selling mushrooms, two of the recurrent questions of new customers at the farmers market are "How do I store them?" and "How long can they be stored?" Many farmers will answer with "You can store them in your fridge inside a paper bag for up to 5 days," and that's fine … Continue reading Mushroom Shelf Life: 8 Best Practices to Extend It!
