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 VampireSlayer
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 Cultivating button mushrooms 
#6489679 - 01/23/07 04:34 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well I was thinking that I could possibly start a business cultivating buttons small time and selling them on the side of the road like at a little stand to start off. I want to rent get some cheap land in the country and get like 10 mini greenhouses and cultivate similar to cubensis bulk grows. I plan on going to local horse farms for my poo and using the pillowcase in the croc pot method for pasterizing.
how does this sound? I really enjoy cultivating mushrooms even more than eating them. Doing this would be like a job that I actually enjoy doing and would love to get up every morning and checking on my mushrooms. I would get alot of satisfaction in selling buttons to the people especially since I would do a good job and people would love them.
Does this sound like a good method or is there potentially an easier way to cultivate that would cost less on a small scale. You never know, if I end up enjoying it alot maybe I'll move up and become a top button mushroom cultivator and rake in some big bucks, all the while enjoying my job!
Please give me some feedback on my idea! I like constructive criticism so please do so! I am really interested in this. Cubensis are fun to do as a small hobby but I can not make them my life long job for obvious reasons. My biggest enjoyment for cultivating cubes is just to see them grow!
If anyone has any information regaurding cultivating buttons please share! Also I would like to know where to get button mushroom cultures and what they use as spawn. I assume they use grains just in quart jars similar to cubes but I am not positive.
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 dutchmushroom
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Re: Cultivating button mushrooms [Re: VampireSlayer]
#6489738 - 01/23/07 04:56 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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from what i have heard theres not much money to be made in buttons, try some shiitake and maitake and oysters and sell to high class restraunts and health food stores
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VampireSlayer
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Re: Cultivating button mushrooms [Re: dutchmushroom]
#6489776 - 01/23/07 05:17 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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dutchmushroom said:
from what i have heard theres not much money to be made in buttons, try some shiitake and maitake and oysters and sell to high class restraunts and health food stores
peace out
Not that I disagree. It's easier to find info on the gormet mushroom market than the common button mushroom market on the net, but when I go to the grocery store and see that they only carry buttons I tend to wonder if the gormet market makes more money or not.
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Re: Cultivating button mushrooms [Re: VampireSlayer]
#6489834 - 01/23/07 05:36 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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They only carry buttons because apparently that's all they can get. Agaricus sells for $3/lb and Shiitake, which is nearly as easy to grow provided you have a source of hardwood chips/sawdust, sells for $15/lb.
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Re: Cultivating button mushrooms [Re: RogerRabbit]
#6489945 - 01/23/07 06:13 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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RogerRabbit said:
provided you have a source of hardwood chips/sawdust, sells for $15/lb.
RR
where would I even start looking for hardwood chips/sawdust?
lumber company perhaps?
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Edited by Pikashroom (01/23/07 06:16 PM)
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Re: Cultivating button mushrooms [Re: VampireSlayer]
#6490085 - 01/23/07 07:10 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think there's a real market gap for gourmet growers at the moment. Our local supermarkets stock shiitake, oysters, buttons, portobellos, enoki and buna-shimeji, and there's a whole host of other species that are meant to be very tasty. obviously you'd have to check the area to see if there's a market.
I live in quite a 'posh' area, so there are lots of restaurants and gourmet products are in high demand, so eventually when I've got the hang of growing some interesting varieties, I'm thinking of selling them at the farmers market, or trying to supply restaurants and maybe trying to start a little business out of it. Havn't had a lot of success yet - one flush from a straw block of oysters at the moment. well, you've got to start somewhere.
woodchips available from tree-surgeons.
Hardwood Sawdust from sawmills/lumbermills
wheat or oat bran from organic food co-ops
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Re: Cultivating button mushrooms [Re: chrisscole]
#6490192 - 01/23/07 07:49 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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good luck with that that chris, i've had the same thoughts myself.
i reckon it's a go, if you have the backup i terms of time, money and space commitments. whn i thought of it, i didn't have any of these, but hopefully you will go for this venture. i agree it's a viable one, if pitched right.
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Re: Cultivating button mushrooms [Re: VampireSlayer]
#6490305 - 01/23/07 08:45 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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i wouldnt say agaricus are as easy to grow as shitake..
you can grow lots of buttons, or the gourmet almond portabello's, much easier with far less investment, outside. simply because you don't have to sterilize the substrate! needing to sterilize every block of shitake/lion's mane/maitake etc I feel is the most limiting factor in any farm. Its by far the biggest bottleneck in the whole operation. By growing mushrooms on pasteurized substrates the home cultivator is open to being able to create his own pasteurizing units much easier, with little danger. Trying to fabricat a retort is no easy business, but a simple steamer can be built for less then $100. And run on wood!
Pika you are totally on the right track! but i agree with some of the other folks here, gourmet is the way to go! but you don't have to learn all new tricks, if you can grow the cubensis it seems like the almond portabello's have the same growth habits, if not a bit slower. and being a highly prized medicinal as well as an excellent gourmet, it can possibly be the most valued edible mushroom people could be growing, and easily sell.
I have some spawn of this mushroom going right now I am planning on doing a small grow with, possibly in a mini-greenhouse indoors. When spring comes, thats when the compost gets turning!
If you need any help feel free to contact me 
Thanks for posting!
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Re: Cultivating button mushrooms [Re: shirley knott]
#6492378 - 01/24/07 01:45 PM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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shirley knott said:
good luck with that that chris, i've had the same thoughts myself.
i reckon it's a go, if you have the backup i terms of time, money and space commitments. whn i thought of it, i didn't have any of these, but hopefully you will go for this venture. i agree it's a viable one, if pitched right.
don't know whether it will ever happen, just a pipe dream at the moment, i've made £5 selling oysters to friends though. trying it as a hobby first, and if that goes well, start investing more into it.
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