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OfflinePermieFairy
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Continuous Oyster Production for small scale farm
    #19146094 - 11/16/13 04:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Hey all,
  So we are in the process of planning a small scale oyster farm for selling at our farmers market, as well as selling to a couple restaurants.  I've done all the reading and been to some workshops (Big props to Peter McCoy with Radical Mycology :wink: So I know all the basic pretty well.  My questions are:

1.  We live in a rural area so demand may not be huge at first but... We are trying to figure out if we need to revamp our basement to a walk in grow chamber or if a couple small Martha units might do the trick at first.  Before we can purchase any of the environment equip. this whole size issue needs to be resolved.  Martha like set ups would obviously take some different size equip versus a walk in situation in the basement. 

2.  How to stagger the petri dishes, spawn jars and inoculated bags for a continuous cropping cycle.. or at least every other day.  We are thinking 3' bags with a 12" diameter.  How many different bags at different stages would we need to always be in production.  And how much dry straw can fit into a bag that size.. If anyone is using the same spec bags, any info is appreciated.  I get the whole BE conversion, I just don't know how many pounds of straw can fit into one log that size. 
I'm sure I'm forgetting something, and I'm probably over thinking some of this, and as soon as we start growing it will all become apparent.. it's just the initial start up system.  We want to start small, but grow big.
(and I've read all of Paul's books so don't bother recommending those :wink:


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Re: Continuous Oyster Production for small scale farm [Re: PermieFairy]
    #19146208 - 11/16/13 05:19 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Your going to get a lot better responses if you post this in the edibles forum.

Best of luck in your endeavors !


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Re: Continuous Oyster Production for small scale farm (moved) [Re: PermieFairy]
    #19146510 - 11/16/13 06:46 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

This thread was moved from Mushroom Cultivation.

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Moved to Gourmet and Medicinals.


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Re: Continuous Oyster Production for small scale farm [Re: PermieFairy]
    #19146859 - 11/16/13 08:46 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

What have you grown so far? 
Oysters, to get them right, are very environmentally demanding.  You may be better off investing in your "environment equip" up front.


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Re: Continuous Oyster Production for small scale farm [Re: Jeff]
    #19147914 - 11/16/13 11:55 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

i haven't done any production in about 3 weeks or so, and we're still getting about 20lbs per week.  we almost hit 100lbs 3 weeks ago.

starting out we made 50lbs of grain spawn daily, but we haven't made any in about two months.  sawdust spawn is far easier to keep going.  i still haven't found the 'balance' yet.  but we also haven't gone past G2 (2 transfers from grain master).  you don't really need to do that much lab work, maybe once a month, after you get up and running.  now of course it's good to keep trying new strains and stuff in there...


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Re: Continuous Oyster Production for small scale farm [Re: drake89]
    #19149785 - 11/17/13 01:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Take a look at the link in my sig. That might help with your decision.

Once you know how big your "shitload" is you can work everything back from that.


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