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Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms??
    #21706181 - 05/21/15 12:21 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Can you? because if so that would be really awesome, I am in search of something to do for a living which I can be at peace with :smile::mushroom2:


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: caman]
    #21706253 - 05/21/15 12:49 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Absolutely. Just depends on how far you want to go, and how much work you put into it.  I make a decent amount just selling to a handful of places.


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: Apps]
    #21706352 - 05/21/15 01:22 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

yeah but you really need to put a fair amount of money into it (which usually means temporarily going into debt) and have the knowledge and experience to run the place to make a 'good' living.  like over $40,000/yr.


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: drake89]
    #21706556 - 05/21/15 02:08 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Also, "at peace with"... I still quibble myself over how much plastic I'm using evening running a little operation of 60 filter patch bags a week.. and off grid? Tricky... plenty of heating and cooling fans to be doing with.. (unless you can afford to dig a big hole and put a shipping container in it...


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: mcchieftan]
    #21706922 - 05/21/15 03:51 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Also, "at peace with"... I still quibble myself over how much plastic I'm using evening running a little operation of 60 filter patch bags a week.. and off grid? Tricky... plenty of heating and cooling fans to be doing with.. (unless you can afford to dig a big hole and put a shipping container in it...




no need to dig a whole shipping container in the ground.  you can use earth tubes or heat exchangers in something much smaller like a 1000L IBC tote.  I know one grower who is off the grid in amsterdam and another in california who is working towards it.


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: drake89]
    #21706980 - 05/21/15 04:07 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Also, "at peace with"... I still quibble myself over how much plastic I'm using evening running a little operation of 60 filter patch bags a week.. and off grid? Tricky... plenty of heating and cooling fans to be doing with.. (unless you can afford to dig a big hole and put a shipping container in it...




no need to dig a whole shipping container in the ground.  you can use earth tubes or heat exchangers in something much smaller like a 1000L IBC tote.  I know one grower who is off the grid in amsterdam and another in california who is working towards it.




Where There's a will there's a way. The possibilities are endless as long as you are willing to put in the work yourself.


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: Apps]
    #21709085 - 05/22/15 03:34 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

And money.... :P

I'd be interested in knowing more about those projects Drake, any links?


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: caman]
    #21709203 - 05/22/15 05:39 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

the dude who built silk road, or sr2 whatever it was started off mass cultivating mushrooms. There are journals documenting his grows online if you wanna search AFAIK


Edit: in the eyes of the law it's definitely not a legitimate way to make a living haha


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: HamiltonJoe]
    #21709294 - 05/22/15 06:37 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

:facepalm3: :wow:  :rotfl:


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: RogerSmith]
    #21711517 - 05/22/15 05:50 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Been making a living for exactly 30 years from growing mushrooms. 

Kids did not love being call smurfs in school but also love the mushroom farm life.  They went to Ivy league schools and are now Dr. Smurfs.

It is a good life but a very hard life with tons of fun if you hire the right people.  Never hire anyone that does not eat mushrooms that is the key.  People who love mushrooms will love the mushrooms that you grow.


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: primrose]
    #21712979 - 05/23/15 03:55 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

If you can grow black truffles then you'll be raking in the money. I hear they're quite popular.

But if everyone was doing it then they wouldn't fetch such a premium.


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Re: Can you legitimately make a living off growing & selling mushrooms?? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #21736631 - 05/29/15 12:22 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Awesome, thanks for all the responses guys ! I am going to start small & try selling them to restaurants & more likely farmer markets/ flee markets. If all goes well I will hopefully in the future look into the mushroom farm biz.


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