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Homesteader
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Gourmet mushroom company launch 4
#24007129 - 01/13/17 01:05 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I want to start off by thanking everyone on shroomery who helped me out along the way with the various nuances of production. I'm only 1 year in from the inception of cultivating mushrooms altogether and just this week I launched my company Myco-Rise. We are growing mainly oysters thus far on a myriad of different substrates with a focus on post-consumer/agricultural waste. This week I received a call from a distillery that would like to work with us to better handle their spent grains and we are also collaborating with a pHD student and a professor from the local university to provide opportunities to other young myco-minded individuals. This would not at all have been possible without the feedback I received here on the forums. So again, thank you to everyone who helped a long the way and best of luck to those trying to gain traction in mushroom cultivation. Stick to it, there will be plenty of obstacles but you can always turn to the forum for help and expert advice. Check us out on Facebook @ Myco-Rise if you ever have time. I'd like to give back to the community in anyway possible - be it; cultures, techniques, etc. Just PM me and I will do my best to help out. Here are some pics of the new facility:  The Room is much more packed than it was in this picture. There are 74 columns hanging in there as of today. We've got a mix of oysters: some pink, some elm and some grey oyster.
Edited by Homesteader (01/17/17 10:14 PM)
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bodhisatta 
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader] 2
#24007150 - 01/13/17 01:16 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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God damn I wish I had the capital to start something up
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: bodhisatta]
#24007165 - 01/13/17 01:23 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey Bodhi I managed to do it almost exclusively with grant money. I'm not sure where you live but in my province they hand out money left and right for ecofriendly and sustainable start ups. You can do it brother! 1000%!
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24007268 - 01/13/17 02:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow... good shit man. Goals right here.
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Thedenthead]
#24007278 - 01/13/17 02:07 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nice job! I am thinking of doing something like this on a part time basis. Any advice on starting small? Ive read all over, but nothing compares to personal experiences.
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24007338 - 01/13/17 02:25 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Uh..nice! You should post this up in GM
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Thedenthead]
#24007358 - 01/13/17 02:33 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks Bru! I wish you all the best and crazy success! We could use a lot more small and local mushroom companies. There's just way too much damn waste being thrown out into landfills when it could be producing food and CO2 instead of methane. Cirka, the distillery we are working with, admitted to us they were flushing 2000 pounds of solids from their fermentation tanks down the drain on the weekly. What was once a problem for the water treatment guys is now producing a few hundred pounds a week of oysters. Anywho good luck amigo!!
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24007368 - 01/13/17 02:35 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I work in beer shit we were dumping 10k pounds of wet spent grain a day and most of it went to the trash only a small part people wanted for farm stuff
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Tmethyl
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch (moved) [Re: Homesteader]
#24007382 - 01/13/17 02:38 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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This thread was moved from Mushroom Cultivation.
Reason: Moved to proper forum, very nice.
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: bodhisatta]
#24007466 - 01/13/17 03:00 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Holy SHIZZZ man! You guys could of supplied a city with mushrooms grown on those quantities of spent grain.
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24007489 - 01/13/17 03:09 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Congrats! Those pinks look amazing by the way
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Tmethyl]
#24007491 - 01/13/17 03:10 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah man, congrats to your setup !!!
what is the floor space of your operation?
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: imanlyman]
#24007503 - 01/13/17 03:15 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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imanlyman said: Nice job! I am thinking of doing something like this on a part time basis. Any advice on starting small? Ive read all over, but nothing compares to personal experiences.
Great question! The catch is I found growing mushrooms to really be an economy of scale type of business. If you spend an hour pasteurising in a 20L pot for example or you spend the same hour pasteurising a 1000L tote you're out an hour of time either way. I found it only to be cost effective once we had large enough equipment which we obtained by using grant money and some personal investment. I feel there isn't anyway to really start small and build up your capital to the point where you will be able to afford these things. This isn't to say dont go small. Quite the contrary actually! Starting small, although usually not/much less profitable, is a great way to learn the ins and outs of each stage of production. I started off by learning proper lab technique and how to deal with sterile culture. Before I even grew a mushroom I could poor a petri dish from properly sterilised agar. This really is the foundation of mushroom cultivation. After learning how to prepare inoculants/Agar/spore syringes you can move on to dialling in your grain spawn preparing and inoculation techniques. Once you are actively making healthy and usable grain spawn the rest becomes easier and easier because you now have a steady supply of spawn to experiment with and to try your hand at cultivating different species on different substrates. As far as species go, start with something fool proof like the elm or grey oyster - they grow fast and have quite the ability to resist contamination. Alternatively, if you don't plan on doing indoor cultivation, you could always use your spawn to prepare outdoor beds or inoculate dowels and make logs. All in all, begin to understand the vegetative part of the fungus and you will find yourself cultivating its fruiting body not long after.
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Snagman17]
#24007506 - 01/13/17 03:15 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thank you sir!
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: circles]
#24007516 - 01/13/17 03:18 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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circles said: Yeah man, congrats to your setup !!!
what is the floor space of your operation?
Thanks brother! Working hard for the mycelium We use about 1200 Square feet between the grow chamber/incubation area, the lab and the prep room. We could definitely have done it in less space but it is always nice to work in a clean and open environment. I don't know about you but I'm not fond of being squished between 20 columns :p (actually thats a lie lol $$$$)
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24007639 - 01/13/17 04:02 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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very cool setup + very inspirational! Currently working on a similar project and grant application in south Ontario
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: poponon]
#24007656 - 01/13/17 04:09 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Im so jealous of this set up right now. Im with Bod, I wish I could set up something like this.
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bodhisatta 
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I think I'm legitimately going to look into this grant process...
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: bodhisatta]
#24007722 - 01/13/17 04:33 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Incredible job dude. I've never seen such a well organized lab!
I completed a 12x12 grow room about a year and a half ago but only got a few weeks use out of it before I left the country. I'd like to think I really gotten down the production process, but I never sold a single mushroom. I'd be really interested in that aspect of things as it is more ambiguous. I just don't know if there's a large enough market where I live. It's a seasonal town that really only has 3-4 months where the farmer's market and restaurants are bustling. I have a bit of anxiety too, so approaching a restaurant was always a bit daunting to me.
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: beastcoast]
#24007745 - 01/13/17 04:41 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would weld legs onto every table so that I could work standing up at chest height. but that's a minor detail everything else is perfection
also the ducting I wouldn't have suck air from the floor. I would have them pull air from higher up. the prefilter takes care of it but why dirty it up prematurely. unless you want to purposefully try to suck the floor clean"er"
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