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SkysTheLimit
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Question for those who sell mushrooms . .
#19349378 - 12/31/13 12:22 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was wandering..
1. What species of mushroom is most popular in your area?
2. Who is your main customer of this species? (e.g. restaurants, farmers market patrons, pharmaceutical companies)
Thanks for your opinion in advanced!
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Sgt. Pepper



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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: SkysTheLimit]
#19350325 - 12/31/13 09:01 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm also interested in this too. I was thinking about participating in my local farmers market next spring.
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chefinainteasy
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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: Sgt. Pepper]
#19353154 - 12/31/13 11:09 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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In my opinion if your just starting out, you will be amazed and excited to find any chef in a restaurant will be impressed and interested in almost any truly fresh mushroom. Oyster, shiitake, anything.
Though I find the ones with the shortest shelf life are some of the most valued as they are least likely seen in freshly harvested condition. For a chef to see an oyster mushroom picked that morning is a rare occasion in a world of international commerce. That's where I started. But I think even more impressed and curious are patrons of the farmers market.
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Forrester
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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: chefinainteasy]
#19353206 - 12/31/13 11:28 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Quote:
chefinainteasy said: Though I find the ones with the shortest shelf life are some of the most valued as they are least likely seen in freshly harvested condition. For a chef to see an oyster mushroom picked that morning is a rare occasion in a world of international commerce. That's where I started. But I think even more impressed and curious are patrons of the farmers market.
This is a great point. To us growers, oysters are common and easy to grow, no big deal. But to a consumer/restaurant owner where I'm at (Maine) finding fresh harvested oyster mushrooms for sale is next to impossible, even at the farmer's markets. Grow something like Black Poplar, which is easily destroyed and rarely even heard of in my area, and you're guaranteed to pique the interest of any chef or farmer's market patron.
Of course it depends a lot on where you are - a farmer's market in the PNW could have 15 oyster growers for all I know
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Sgt. Pepper



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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: Forrester]
#19353469 - 01/01/14 01:44 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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I know we payed 15 dollars or so for a single big maitake mushroom. Each one can feed a single person. It seems pretty rare.
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mrtumnas
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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: Sgt. Pepper]
#19354900 - 01/01/14 02:17 PM (10 years, 29 days ago) |
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As far as I know, I'm the only local grower in the New Orleans area except for a company in Mississippi who sells shiitake down here. Oysters sell really well, people are fairly familiar with them. Chefs like anything different, but chanterrelles especially as extremely popular. As far as cultivated mushrooms I get asked about crimini all the freaking time. Never tried to grow them tho
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fizzbin
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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: mrtumnas]
#19413199 - 01/13/14 04:33 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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I don't sell myself, but a Portland upscale grocery chain with 13 or so locations has a sign by their shiitakes saying they buy 75% of what River City Shiitake produces.
They're ~15mins north of me, but the only info I can find on them is this impressive video:
Having a guaranteed buyer for 75% of that sized production seems solid
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Mr.T
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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: fizzbin]
#19413287 - 01/13/14 04:57 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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That video is so awesome, thanks for sharing 
I noticed that the caps were pulled off the stipes of a lot of them, is it standard to just sell the caps, or what was going on there?
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Sgt. Pepper



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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: Mr.T]
#19413300 - 01/13/14 05:02 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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Quote:
Mr.T said: That video is so awesome, thanks for sharing 
I noticed that the caps were pulled off the stipes of a lot of them, is it standard to just sell the caps, or what was going on there?
Us cube growers like to cut off the caps of mushrooms in clusters so we can prevent a sporesplosion without ruining a whole cluster or immature mushrooms.
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drake89
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Re: Question for those who sell mushrooms . . [Re: Sgt. Pepper]
#19414070 - 01/13/14 07:44 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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since you don't usually eat the stems, maybe they are saving people the trouble. could maybe justify a higher price too. you might run into trouble with an over-zelous health inspector.
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