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Stromrider
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Virus wrecked
#26539378 - 03/16/20 08:26 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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This is bad guys. Farmers market canceled. All restaurant deliveries but 1 canceled. About 50 lbs on hand and another 50 coming soon. 😕
I have no idea what to do about production either. I'm going to be harvesting way too many mushrooms for the next 3 weeks and I'm afraid that if I slow production now I'll regret it in a few weeks
Any ideas?
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RogerTheRetard
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Dehydrate your edible mushrooms maybe.
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Dorfnob
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craigslist? could you set up a stand outside a Walmart or something>
Edited by Dorfnob (03/16/20 08:34 PM)
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Sherlock Shrooms
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: Dorfnob]
#26539415 - 03/16/20 08:40 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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You could do a CSA or deliveries to people. Maybe reach out online and see what kind of feed back you get..
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Stromrider
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Yea all that's in the works but it's not going to be enough. Dehydrators are loaded and people are coming by the house to buy mushrooms. It just doesn't amount to what we normally do. I think I'll take a big load to the soup kitchen tomorrow
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To consulate you, in Europe it's the same song. All restaurants closed. Luckily enough I 've got a lot of small organic shops among my clients and they are still open and work harder than ever. Managed to sell 30 k's of shiitake today so we still can eat next week. Don't know though what's going to happen with the next batch that I got in my grow room now 
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: frog48]
#26540050 - 03/17/20 06:31 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I like the CSA idea. Or you could call grocery stores and see if they want any.
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seagu

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This idea won't make you money but if you have dogs, you can save on dog food and they can eat really well and stay healthy if you make mushroom soup for them.
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: seagu]
#26545808 - 03/20/20 02:33 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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give away for free would always be an option
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Stromrider
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BramscoChill said: give away for free would always be an option
Yea that's what I ended up doing with a pretty big load yesterday. To the soup kitchen. That's great and all but it don't pay the bills. Guess we'll see what happens at the farmers market tomorrow. Maybe it will go better since the grocery stores are empty
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seagu

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Yea our local Farmers Market is still open and selling produce, as the manager said until they force us to close.
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BabuFrik
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: seagu]
#26547571 - 03/20/20 08:28 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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An old military friend of mine used to always say "may you live in interesting times" whenever situations went sour on us. He said it was an old curse. We are living in some very interesting times now, that is for sure.
The grocery stores around here seem to be booming with everyone panic-buying, and the traffic through the asian shops hasn't changed much, so maybe you could check to see if there is any interest there?
There is also dehydration, vacuum-packaging, and online sales to help expand your reach into more regional, niche, or web-based markets. With all of the food seasonings and supplements out there that use a lot of powdered mushrooms, you might find an outlet for your stock to help cushion the blow.
Changing over some of your production to medicinal fungi to tap into the tincture, tea, or supplement market could also be something to consider.
Times are tough but I hope you make it through alright.
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: BabuFrik]
#26547786 - 03/20/20 11:03 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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People need good quality food right now and in the coming days more than ever. Around here all the officials are urging food delivery/markets/farmers markets/farms/slaughterhouses to stay operational for as long as possible. If you're good at growing edibles, you have a talent to produce a large quantity of healthy food with limited space and resources. Please if anything bump up your game. the exercise will keep you healthy and you'll be providing a much needed service.
Personally I'm running my PC's twice a day each in preparation for a massive edible run. I don't expect to turn a profit but do expect to feed more people than myself.
The robots are not fancy enough yet for complete isolation of humans lol.
We will need to work together soon enough when the food is scarce and the risk of catching any virus is less than the need of a clean drink of water or something to eat. People die of starvation too. Healthy, fed people are less likely to get sick. The sooner we bounce back on our own as a community the sooner this will become like the rest of the viruses that used to kill a lot of us, but now you get once and are done with.
Grain of salt and all that. Pick these words apart if you want to but it's a waste of your time. It's all opinion.
I love you all and hope you and your families are well. I'm planning for a good future and hope some of you are too.
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: BabuFrik]
#26549069 - 03/21/20 02:53 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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BabuFrik said: Changing over some of your production to medicinal fungi to tap into the tincture, tea, or supplement market could also be something to consider.
I agree with this idea. A lot of the medicinal herb and mushroom suppliers are just as out-of-stock as the grocery stores already. People are panic buying all of them as well.
I think in the near future we are going to be relying a lot more on natural cures and treatments. Not that we weren't already headed that way anyway...
That said, if you have any dried Lion's mane to get rid of, me with a price.
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seagu

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well we know who won't starve...
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BabuFrik
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: seagu]
#26553310 - 03/23/20 03:25 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Forrester said:
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BabuFrik said: Changing over some of your production to medicinal fungi to tap into the tincture, tea, or supplement market could also be something to consider.
I agree with this idea. A lot of the medicinal herb and mushroom suppliers are just as out-of-stock as the grocery stores already. People are panic buying all of them as well.
Oh yes that is true. There is an increase in friends and acquaintances texting about buying reishi for tinctures and tea over here. Normally I would do a wild-forage through the local hemlock forests for them, then culture the best specimens and fruit them out on sawdust blocks. Now it seems like I might have to bump up the timeline and fire up the Martha from my slants right now to meet the demand.
A lot of you are probably the go-to mushroom person in your network of friends, so I am wondering if anyone else out there is feeling the same pressure and sense of responsibility to produce medicinals that I am? I want to do everything I can to help out the people around me, but without getting overworked or turning cultivation into a stress sandwich.
This is usually only something I do to subsidize other projects and help out my homeopathic friends, but with the demand spreading beyond that I might actually turn a small profit this year. That is just by way of increasing sales volume though. I don't have the heart to raise the prices on anyone like those crazies selling toilet paper and hand sanitizer out of the back of their truck in parking lots.
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Edited by BabuFrik (07/14/20 04:12 PM)
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Stromrider
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: seagu]
#26554550 - 03/24/20 07:13 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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seagu said: well we know who won't starve...

Definitely none of us over here are going to starve. Got 4k pounds of substrate sitting here 
I've been having a lot of requests for reishi as of late. I usually only grow it for personal. Definitely going to put some more eggs in that basket.
We were able to secure a deal with a local grocery store. It's at a lot less money that what we're used to getting but we're moving product so I can't complain
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seagu

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Stromrider said:
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seagu said: well we know who won't starve...

Definitely none of us over here are going to starve. Got 4k pounds of substrate sitting here 
I've been having a lot of requests for reishi as of late. I usually only grow it for personal. Definitely going to put some more eggs in that basket.
We were able to secure a deal with a local grocery store. It's at a lot less money that what we're used to getting but we're moving product so I can't complain
hah. Yea looks like mine is roughly half that pic. I was thinking about going out and buying another set of bags and barrel, just in case this thing last longer than expected (Me and fam won't starve.) and if it doesn't then I would already be extra set for supplies and wouldn't have to get it later. I can't get my soy pellets in bags and so have to get it by the barrel or truck. But I was literally planning this week or last week, give or take a week, as the rest of my stuff came in, to officially start open business for sales. So, I have no previous customer relations already setup for this.
I can still go sell at the Farmer's Market like I was originally planning but seeing that many people in a day risking bringing that thing back home to my family..... I haven't yet. Our family has decided to shelter in place for the time being to let the virus pass as much as possible. Then reevaluate.
And my grow op is small, 64 bag space, so I don't have the space to do volume for a grocery with a backup generator setup for guarantee supply. (Just starting off, with room to add way more space already setup.) Although I did call a CSA or two on Friday and others are closed down. Presumably riding out the storm too.
So since we have the cash to weather the storm for the immediate time being I am making slants. Reevaluating potential outlets with the mindset of dealing with the virus. Reevaluating what I am growing such as thinking of maybe selling starter food plants too. Continuing to build my grow op setup for expansion, just as I was going to do anyways if I was selling at the Farmer's Market currently, instead of pausing, in the mindset of Field Of Dreams. The need for food isn't going away. And not all restaurants are completely closed and so they still need food. I just didn't get supplies to sell to them, as I had prepared for the Farmer's Market. And so I know of Mushroom Farmers doing just this type of stuff and still going, just slightly changing their outlets.
Yup, us mushrooms farmers won't starve.
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Re: Virus wrecked [Re: seagu]
#26555404 - 03/24/20 04:07 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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They won't bag up the soy hulls for you upon request?
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seagu

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No its a feed store that normally fills trucks and such. But it costs me roughly $39 for a 55 gallon drum filled. Roughly 330 lbs give or take how full they fill it. Which is roughly the same as 8 40lb HWFP bags. Or if I need less I can bring a 5 gallon bucket or some such. But I don't do that.
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