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Farmers market experience 1
#22227289 - 09/12/15 02:15 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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So i just returned from my first farmers market, the El Paso Art and Farmers Market Fairly good experience, one of the few produce vendors due to the arid climate and poor soil. I only had about 3 lbs of sellable oysters so i sold them $5 per 1/4 lb bag. I made $33 and traded a loaf of bread and a drink, i also gave free samples to all the food trucks and a few chefs.
Some things i learned,
- Get there early for primo location in the shade
- Pre package all your produce, especially with the heat here fruits dry up quick. If your not bagging mist the mushrooms often.
- Have a nice display mushroom cluster at minimum for people to handle and inspect. I also had a colonized petri dish, mason jars with milo, my bulk substrate and a jar of colonized bulk substrate. This was all super helpful since about seven classes of elementary school kids came by for a lesson in mycology.
- When it gets close to closing time see what you can trade the local vendors if you have surplus.
- Make cooked samples, its almost impossible to describe new flavors.
- Have cooking direction cards to hand out with your product
- have a business card holder out front for people to take the card themselves.
- Make sure your contact info is on your bags for future orders. I attached a business card to each bags zip tie ahead of time.

If anyone else has any pointers for farmers market please feel free to chime in.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
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don't sell them in plastic bags, bruh
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: drake89]
#22228204 - 09/12/15 05:43 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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What's wrong with a plastic bag if it's got a few holes poked?
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: bodhisatta]
#22228404 - 09/12/15 06:22 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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bodhisatta said: What's wrong with a plastic bag if it's got a few holes poked?
I didn't see poked holes but paper wicks the moisture away while plastic encourages bacteria and mold to proliferate.
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We've sold hundreds of pounds in paper bags and never had a problem. But we make a point to pick our mushrooms when they are dry and don't store them in paper bags.
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Welcome to the market grOwer. Trading for other goods at the end of market is the only way I shop at market anymore - its great, lots of times you get more value with trade then cash.
My market advice:
- Don't overprice your mushrooms.
- Pimp out your table/space. At the very least get a nice tapestry to cover your table to the ground.
- When sampling cooked foods, health code comes into play(hand wash station, etc.).
- Sell from your display baskets often and keep replenishing it. This keeps things from drying out and dying in the sun. All your extra stash should be out of direct sunlight and carefully stored in coolers if possible.
- Often times the more mushrooms you have, the more you can sell(up to a certain point). Impressions of abundance are more appealing to customers.
We only use paper bags and its never been an issue. Its cheap and they come in different sizes. Stamp em in your market-downtime with your name/logo and fill to order. Its helpful to have some already bagged up and clearly priced because some people just wanna grab & go.
If your bags are getting soggy, you've harvested them way to wet and need to lay off the humidity. Aim to harvest as close to market as possible.
Most farmers that display produce in berry baskets keep the baskets and just dump out whats in it at the time of sale.
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Its commendable that you put yourself out there to test the waters at the farmers market. I have been wanting to get a stand at the local market here in Missouri but they want a fee of $200 to have a stand! Not sure if that would make it worthwhile or not, may need to look around for another, smaller market.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: nooberst]
#22231482 - 09/13/15 12:30 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks for the input! I do have paper bags with my business card taped to the front but i felt the plastic bags would be better for product visibility especially on my first visit. I really need to invest in some stackable totes with some breathing holes and a large cooler to harvest and store the product in. Hopefully with future profits i can dial in my setup packaging. I plan to make a hipsterish 2'x3' pallet sign with my company name and mushroom art then paint the bottom slots chalkboard for prices and info. Im also going to hit up thrift stores for more wicker baskets, a nice variety of display baskets with different strains would look nice i think. I did jack up the prices a bit but i explained that this was my first sale and i didn't want to sell out, getting my name and product out was more important to me than moving all my product. Regardless i made almost every sale when someone showed interest. Next market ill be selling around $12-14 a lb. And hopefully my pinks do well so i don't just have the one variety.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
#22231822 - 09/13/15 01:36 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was at market today, sold around 60lbs + dried and sundries. A different day but you get the idea.-
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: solarity]
#22232794 - 09/13/15 05:23 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks for sharing solarity, that's one awesome booth. I had a few ppl ask about growing them those grow kits look pro!
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
#22233174 - 09/13/15 06:34 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gr0wer said: Thanks for the input! I do have paper bags with my business card taped to the front but i felt the plastic bags would be better for product visibility especially on my first visit. I really need to invest in some stackable totes with some breathing holes and a large cooler to harvest and store the product in. Hopefully with future profits i can dial in my setup packaging. I plan to make a hipsterish 2'x3' pallet sign with my company name and mushroom art then paint the bottom slots chalkboard for prices and info. Im also going to hit up thrift stores for more wicker baskets, a nice variety of display baskets with different strains would look nice i think. I did jack up the prices a bit but i explained that this was my first sale and i didn't want to sell out, getting my name and product out was more important to me than moving all my product. Regardless i made almost every sale when someone showed interest. Next market ill be selling around $12-14 a lb. And hopefully my pinks do well so i don't just have the one variety.
you could sell for $16-20/lb. I know people at small markets selling for even higher prices! Think about it this way, if you double your prices and only lose 20% of your business, you're making more money. Try to make it so people can't spend less than $5. Just some marketing/pricing points.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: drake89]
#22235662 - 09/14/15 08:38 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks for the input drake. I guess it all goes back to supply and demand. I'm the only person growing here and supply is low while there clearly is a demand. Keeping the prices around the $20 would be awesome!
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
#22236071 - 09/14/15 11:00 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gr0wer said: Thanks for the input drake. I guess it all goes back to supply and demand. I'm the only person growing here and supply is low while there clearly is a demand. Keeping the prices around the $20 would be awesome!
I don't have farmers market experience, but when I am able to find them in the grocery stores here, oysters sell for $18.50/lb, and they look like shit. I'm sure that people would be willing to pay $20 a pound for good quality fresh mushrooms.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: solarity]
#22237449 - 09/14/15 04:26 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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solarity said: I was at market today, sold around 60lbs + dried and sundries. A different day but you get the idea.-

I see all colors except blue oysters in there! Whats up, do people not like the blue?
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It's summer, blue shaded oysters are generally low temps.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: solarity]
#22237665 - 09/14/15 05:24 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sorry guys but $20+ per lb. for oyster mushrooms is uncool.
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Sorry guys but $20+ per lb. for oyster mushrooms is uncool.
you ever worked at a farmer's market? it sucks. $20 a pound is great when you're selling them. if you don't like it, then grow them yourself. or buy some rotten ones at the store and get sick :P
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: drake89]
#22238337 - 09/14/15 07:52 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah dude, I sell my mushrooms at market every week - its enjoyable and profitable without overpricing. 
Obviously its great to bank on $20+ lbs, but I don't think its a fair price for common oysters, even if they're super primo & organic. It doesn't leave much room for pricing other varities.
I agree that others like pinks, and yellows should bring a few more bucks considering the lower yield, fragile and short shelf life but still 20 is pushing it in my view.
Here's my typical pricing scheme:
Oysters : $12/lbs King Oyster : $16-24/lbs Shiitake : $16/lbs Lions Mane : $20/lbs Wine Cap : $16-24/lbs Pioppino : $16/lbs Reishi : $1/gr. Chanterelle : $24/lbs Chicken of Woods : $16/lbs Maitake : $24/lbs Morel : $40+/lbs ------------------------------------ Dried oyster : $2/half ounce Dried shiitake : $3/half ounce
I also find that having $2 and $3 dollar options on your table opens up a lot more sales. Not everyone wants to drop a 5 every time they wanna try something.
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$60+lb for morels. i never find more than a pound though in the south and all. $30+ for chickens and maitakes. i don't do farmer's markets any more though unless I'm desperate. for me it's not a very efficient way of making markets. i'd rather sell them all to chefs or wholesalers and still have my day to enjoy, even if it's less money in my pocket. if you care to listen to joel salatin, he says it's not worth showing up to a market if you don't make over $2,000! i'm not as extreme as him, but if it's your livelihood, I wouldn't settle for less than $100/hr.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: drake89]
#22239158 - 09/14/15 11:08 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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$100/hr especially when you consider 3X the labor hours invested in spawn, substrate and harvesting
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
#22239887 - 09/15/15 06:49 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Holy crapola. I am in the wrong line of business here. $100 an hour!? $40-60 a lb for morels $1 a gram for Reishi, oh my! lol
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midnightmaraude said: Holy crapola. I am in the wrong line of business here. $100 an hour!? $40-60 a lb for morels $1 a gram for Reishi, oh my! lol
nah most mushroom farmers you will find are struggling to start up. I planned only to make $20/hr. yet to see much of that 3 years in. but for 'off farm' time, you need to be making maybe even more than $100/hr. cause think about how much value in mushrooms you can make per hour by processing substrate or whatever. then if you're delivering $100 worth of mushrooms in 2 hours you are actually losing money.
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poofterFroth said: Yeah dude, I sell my mushrooms at market every week - its enjoyable and profitable without overpricing. 
Obviously its great to bank on $20+ lbs, but I don't think its a fair price for common oysters, even if they're super primo & organic. It doesn't leave much room for pricing other varities.
I agree that others like pinks, and yellows should bring a few more bucks considering the lower yield, fragile and short shelf life but still 20 is pushing it in my view.
Here's my typical pricing scheme:
Oysters : $12/lbs King Oyster : $16-24/lbs Shiitake : $16/lbs Lions Mane : $20/lbs Wine Cap : $16-24/lbs Pioppino : $16/lbs Reishi : $1/gr. Chanterelle : $24/lbs Chicken of Woods : $16/lbs Maitake : $24/lbs Morel : $40+/lbs ------------------------------------ Dried oyster : $2/half ounce Dried shiitake : $3/half ounce
I also find that having $2 and $3 dollar options on your table opens up a lot more sales. Not everyone wants to drop a 5 every time they wanna try something.
I'm just starting to ramp up my production for the purpose of farmer's markets and this thread has been great food for thought. With the prices you listed, how do you market them? Do you sell by weight, volume? Do you prepackage or package on the spot?
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: shroombasa]
#22244777 - 09/16/15 08:17 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here, in greece, blue oyster are $3.5 a pound in supermarket, you dont realize how lucky you are to sell at $20 a pound.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: popok]
#22259151 - 09/19/15 06:50 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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@ shroobasa.
Fresh: I mostly sell directly from display baskets by weight, using a scale certified by the weights/measures dept. and put into paperbags at the time of sale.
Prices are clearly marked on my signboard by 1/4 lbs prices. (ie, oysters $3 per 1/4lbs. etc.) Its a little more welcoming when your not advertising a full board of high dollar prices, but instead breaking it down into smaller amounts.
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I love the idea of 1/4lb pricing but hate as a consumer. I remember when me and my wife went to a NYC candy shop and saw the price not noticing the 1/4 and paid like $18 for a bag of mixed candy.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
#22261626 - 09/19/15 07:10 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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At stores they do like 3.5 oz pricing to really confused you
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: drake89]
#22261653 - 09/19/15 07:15 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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drake89 said: At stores they do like 3.5 oz pricing to really confused you
Yes, the Hy-Vee store here does that for oyster mushrooms. When you figure it out, it ends up being $18.50/lb.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: drake89]
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Gr0wer said: I love the idea of 1/4lb pricing but hate as a consumer. I remember when me and my wife went to a NYC candy shop and saw the price not noticing the 1/4 and paid like $18 for a bag of mixed candy.
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drake89 said: At stores they do like 3.5 oz pricing to really confused you
Yeah, a friend of mine bought some store bought oysters the other day and asked me how much I was planning on selling mine for. When I said $16-$20 a pound, they looked at me like I was crazy and said that they were only $8 a pound at the store. I pointed out the weight on the box and after the mental math, they realized they'd been had.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: shroombasa]
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People sometimes have a tendency to see what they want to see. The pricing isn't neccasarily at fault. One thing about pricing at lower quanities is it conveys to people that they don't have to buy a whole pound.
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Cleared $100 today at the market! We had pinks and they drew a crowd hopefully as the variety and rapport with customer build we will hit the $200 mark soon!
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
#22330411 - 10/03/15 09:37 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gr0wer said: Cleared $100 today at the market! We had pinks and they drew a crowd hopefully as the variety and rapport with customer build we will hit the $200 mark soon!
i'm going to bed early for market in the AM. it's a grueling 12hr day door to door. last week we did $200 and it was the worst week in a long time. we did $75 our first market. average is $300. some people I know clear $1000 in mushrooms at market which blows my freakin mind!
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: drake89]
#22332882 - 10/04/15 02:01 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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2-300 is what me and my associate figure we can cap out at this local market. Were looking to expand and split up to two separate markets for more $$. His backyard patches are averaging 1-3 lbs a week and im already at 6 lbs this week from my martha. And now im going from 6 sq feet to 70 over the next two weeks and he is expanding all his patches.
What does everyone else sell there dried mushrooms as? I just dried 13 oz and only got 1.7oz dried. I was thinking sell in dried wet lb bags or 2oz dry for like $15??
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
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Gr0wer said: 2-300 is what me and my associate figure we can cap out at this local market. Were looking to expand and split up to two separate markets for more $$. His backyard patches are averaging 1-3 lbs a week and im already at 6 lbs this week from my martha. And now im going from 6 sq feet to 70 over the next two weeks and he is expanding all his patches.
What does everyone else sell there dried mushrooms as? I just dried 13 oz and only got 1.7oz dried. I was thinking sell in dried wet lb bags or 2oz dry for like $15??
yes I sell a dry ounce for $4 or a dry lb for $50-60. My mushrooms are really wet when they start and really dry when they finish. So 1 dry pound takes me about 15# wet starting out.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: drake89]
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£3.50 for 25gr
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: solarity]
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So yea i sold ~8 lbs in less than 2 hours today... I sold out before 9am! I talked to another vendor who sells produce and he said 300 is the norm for him and he can sell $500 if he has exotic produce. I was easily twice as busy as him so i can definitely see making $4-500 a market. And to top it off the venue is a restaurant and the owner said if i ever have leftovers they will buy them for the kitchen. Now i need to really work on hitting 15-20 lbs a week!! Free samples worked wonders too. Another pointer is get a facebook page and be sure to post on the markets website when they post your pictures. I got 9 likes from actual customers today which will be handy with giving people a heads up on what market(s) ill be at and making sales on the side.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
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Don't extrapolate too much from your first market. There is a novelty value that might not last. Though at such small volumes the only way is up! Also do not forget to factor in rain, major sporting events and all your produce being ready the day after the market.
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#22362648 - 10/11/15 10:42 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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This thread has been incredibly helpful! Thanks for sharing your success, Gr0wer!
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had a really great time last weekend at the local farmers market. sold 13 kilos in 4 hours.

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Nice fruits and nice scale! No canopy? How many Sq ft is your grow room? Thats some harvest!
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About the Reishi being a dollar a gram, is that fresh or dried? It seems most people don't know what these are. The dried powder is far cheaper on ebay, what do you tell people when you first introduce them to Reishi.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: invitro]
#22398377 - 10/18/15 03:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was considering growing reishi but it seems like a waste for exactly those reasons including, you cant just eat it, nobody knows what it is, and chefs can't cook with it. I grew a few pails and tried making tea, gross even with green tea mixed in.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
#22398456 - 10/18/15 03:59 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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super helpful info in this thread.
thanks guys
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I'm waiting on my first batch of phoenix oyster mushroom spawn to come in. Right now it is just a hobby, but I wouldn't mind my hobby making a bit of $$$ on the side.
So summing up the advice here:
Grow multiple varieties of mushrooms to make people really feel like it is a gourmet mushroom stand.
Make your stand at the market look exciting and interesting.
Reishi mushrooms are only worth growing if you have a very specific market.
With a shit ton of work and a shi tton of mushrooms; you can get by as a person.
I have one question: What do I do with all of the spent substrate? I don't have tons of land that I can just deposit it in the woods somewhere, nor do I have the space to turn it all into a garden.
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I give it to my friend to grow in his garden he is typically able to match or exceed my output since he mixes in 1-2 times its vollume fresh substrate. I'm sure there are local farmers who would pick it up for free for there gardens.
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Gr0wer]
#22405973 - 10/19/15 10:38 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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our growroom is about 30square meters, we harvest about 5 to 10 kilos of eryngii daily.
it was a great idea to bring that reishi block to the market, it's a true eye-catcher. we placed it right in front of our eryngii price so that customers would have to see the price through a mushroom prism :P a lot of people who probably would have walked past our stand came up and asked what it was. after explaining a bit about it's nature, use and history some ppl still refused to belive that it was an actual living mushroom, thinking it was made out of plastic... Reishi is very rare in my country and picking it from the wild is forbidden by the law, on the other hand, people that knew what it was were amazed by it's beauty.
eryngii doesn't grow wild in Estonia so people were quite sceptical about purchasing them. some jokingly thought that they were hand-made mazipan mushrooms.
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We have three farmers markets locally here, I pay $10 for 3 plates (presumably about 3.5 ounces ea) of anything they have. They outsource all of it. Most the profit I see being made at the farm markets here are from clever displays, marketing, and a great customer base from a great product.
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cool post! good work
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Re: Farmers market experience [Re: Awakening]
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My most recent market. Cooked samples, sheets with literature about the mushrooms, what they are grown on, and how to prepare them. Paper bags with my business card stapled onto them for bagging product. I plan to move onto a customized rubber stamp with my company name, a pic, facebook page url, and phone number. Multiple wicker baskets for different types of mushrooms. I stopped bringing agar plates and jars of substrate. I just bring a small bag with some fruits on it to show how they grow, come the end of the market i pick em off and sell or trade em And have business cards, even if you give away 100 for one sale it worth it. And i cant tell you how many local non profits want me to grow mushrooms and give classes on how to grow. I must say be cautious about this as you may sprout up local competition. I've been talking with a farmer who has greenhouses about doing a joint operation but i plan to have a written agreement about sales and split profits. Mainly wine caps utilizing the local free municipal mulch and/or local stables used bedding.
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my most recent market. I still need to buy a good sign as a backdrop like Solarity has. Note the fancy chalkboard signs on clothes pins, total cost $12 for 9. Im using a chalk paint pen, much neater than chalk and doesn't smear like chalk.
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