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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: poponon]
#24007790 - 01/13/17 05:01 PM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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poponon said: very cool setup + very inspirational! Currently working on a similar project and grant application in south Ontario 
Southern Ontario! No way we are in Quebec right on the eastern boarder of Ontario. I'm not sure how far you are from montreal but you are always welcome to come see the mushroom facility! Just pm me Good luck with your grant application and project. I know Ontario is very active agriculturally speaking and especially when the projects are ecofriendly/sustainable. Cheers
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: bodhisatta]
#24007816 - 01/13/17 05:12 PM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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Awesome job and great lookin' setup!! Congrats on your success thus far!
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: bodhisatta]
#24007838 - 01/13/17 05:21 PM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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bodhisatta said: 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"
The entire room is a class 10 clean room. The Flow's are just re-filtering the same air over and over. The entire room is sealed with double sided plastic, the seems have been taped up and it is all wiped down with 70% ethanol on the weekly. I only ever enter the room in my tyvek suit with a mask and gloves (overkill i guess) and I carry my 2x 41qt all americans into the room while they are still hot and at 1-3psi. I let them cool in the airflow. I also turn down the thermostat a few hours before and run the A/C in the adjacent room to indirectly cool the room before bringing the hot cookers. Before I developed this technique the room would go up to 35Celcius just from the heat off my cookers because it's a hermetically sealed room.
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: beastcoast]
#24007849 - 01/13/17 05:27 PM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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beastcoast said: 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.
If there's a will there's a way. You could always dehydrate your mushrooms and sell them on amazon or online. Unsold mushrooms can be transformed into processed products such as canned in oil, etc. The other option would be to get over the anxiety When you love something it becomes easier to talk about it, to sell yourself and your product. Also, for the first few grows I just ate the mushrooms and gave them to friends and family so don't worry about not having sold any or tested the market. These tasty treats speak for themselves. There is no way you wont sell some beautiful pinks! Good Luck man! make it happen!!!
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24007861 - 01/13/17 05:34 PM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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Homesteader said: it's a hermetically sealed room.
Don't forget you need to breath.
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Shu]
#24007879 - 01/13/17 05:42 PM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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Shu said:
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Homesteader said: it's a hermetically sealed room.
Don't forget you need to breath.
I breath CO2 brother, I'm anaerobic like that :P Every time the door is opened stale air will leave at ground level and fresh air will make its way in up high. Or with temperature difference the convective cycles will exchange the air slightly. So technically it isn't the 'same' air per say. However, air exchange is kept to an absolute minimum. I agree with Bodhi though mounting them higher would have extended the life but I found mounting them to the table base to be less 'invasive'. The location is rented and I didnt want to drill into the ceiling. All the plastic is held with staples so I really tried to avoid creating holes that I'd have to patch up.
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24008631 - 01/14/17 01:10 AM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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Bonjour Quebec! Trop la classe! Nice read! Shroom on! Greets from France
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader] 1
#24008961 - 01/14/17 06:24 AM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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Homesteader said: 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. 
Now that right there is awesome in itself! Great job, I love your philosophy and what you're doing, hope it keeps working out well, congratulations!
-------------------- Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here. ------------------- Have some medicinal mushrooms and want to get the most out of them? Try this double extraction method.
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: frog48]
#24009316 - 01/14/17 09:48 AM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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frog48 said: Bonjour Quebec! Trop la classe! Nice read! Shroom on! Greets from France 
Merci Biens mon amis! Bonne chance avec tes projets de mycologie
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Forrester]
#24009342 - 01/14/17 09:59 AM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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Thanks brother! Funny you're into chickens and ducks I used to work at the poultry building on campus. I worked with broilers and layers for a year. Typical mechanized/commercial production though. I honestly hated it but I've always wanted to keep some chickens in my backyard and let them pick the worms out the vermicompost one day soon cheers
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24009523 - 01/14/17 11:03 AM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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First just let me say, amazing pictures! I love your set up. It looks like we are on a very similar scale. I was curious about a few things, in what capacity are you using the spent grain? Grain spawn or supplementing your sub? I have three local breweries near me and am very interested in this.
Also, any info on your flow hoods? I love the detached blower design and the size of the hepas. Seems very easy to work in front of.
Nice work man!
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: MycoFlora]
#24009917 - 01/14/17 02:25 PM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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MycoFlora said: First just let me say, amazing pictures! I love your set up. It looks like we are on a very similar scale. I was curious about a few things, in what capacity are you using the spent grain? Grain spawn or supplementing your sub? I have three local breweries near me and am very interested in this.
Also, any info on your flow hoods? I love the detached blower design and the size of the hepas. Seems very easy to work in front of.
Nice work man!
Thanks for the love bro! Also, congrats on getting your set up this far and I hope you continue to grow it. I'm going to make a grow log on exactly step by step what I do with the spent grain. The batches vary but what always remains the same is my technique. I pack my blended grains/coffee/cardboard/wtv else into 5 pound myco bags and then I sterilise them and inoculate each one with one quart of spawn. Here are some pictures from the coffee cardboard run.  I was using my all Americans to sterilise but it was a lot of work so I recently built a low pressure steriliser out of a 55 gallon drum - The designs for which I found on Youtube from the grow Myers Mushrooms. All the best !
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader] 1
#24010491 - 01/14/17 06:38 PM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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Homesteader said: Thanks brother! Funny you're into chickens and ducks I used to work at the poultry building on campus. I worked with broilers and layers for a year. Typical mechanized/commercial production though. I honestly hated it but I've always wanted to keep some chickens in my backyard and let them pick the worms out the vermicompost one day soon cheers
Hell yeah, it's much more fun doing the homesteading type! Get yourself some bantam chickens, I've got some in the incubator trying to hatch a few more, they're the cutest things ever!
-------------------- Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here. ------------------- Have some medicinal mushrooms and want to get the most out of them? Try this double extraction method.
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Forrester]
#24010813 - 01/14/17 08:51 PM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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My trade list Looking for strong terrestrial fruiters for an outdoor beds experiment: Agaricus Bitorquis, Agaricus Augustus, Agaricus blazei/subrufescens, Stropharia Rugoso-annulata, Clitocybe Nuda (blewits), and any species or other genus that you think work outdoors. Also, any commercially viable Pleurotus, cold or hot strains. Thanks for the Q&A, trades, and all the posters & teachers that have come before us
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: flyontoast]
#24012518 - 01/15/17 04:06 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Nice one mate, top job. I'm looking forward to your posts.
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Ferather]
#24012543 - 01/15/17 04:17 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Awesome thread, keep it up Homesteader!
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poponon
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24013405 - 01/15/17 11:05 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Homesteader said: Southern Ontario! No way we are in Quebec right on the eastern boarder of Ontario. I'm not sure how far you are from montreal but you are always welcome to come see the mushroom facility! Just pm me Good luck with your grant application and project. I know Ontario is very active agriculturally speaking and especially when the projects are ecofriendly/sustainable. Cheers
I'm just on the west side of the GTA, outside of Guelph , so quite a ways from Montreal. If I happen to go through the area though I'd love to check the place out! Thanks for the kind words, going for a meeting with the local gov't business center soon . Your company is very encouraging! Thanks for the tips on focusing on the sustainable and ecofriendly aspect - That will definitely help out.
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company launch [Re: Homesteader]
#24105551 - 02/20/17 01:55 PM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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Homesteader said: 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
sent you a PM, nice article!
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: Homesteader]
#24109285 - 02/21/17 07:37 PM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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good stuff!!! I dream of doing the same thingish some day. best of luck to you!!
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Homesteader
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Re: Gourmet mushroom company lauch [Re: skullphuxxx]
#24111522 - 02/22/17 05:37 PM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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skullphuxxx said: good stuff!!! I dream of doing the same thingish some day. best of luck to you!!

Thank you bru! All the best to you as well.
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