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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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those fruits are beatiful! rock on!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: gorgotha]
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It looks to me like you need more FAE for the regular oysters. The king oysters look good your regular oysters need something to shorten the stipe. You shorten the stipe by increasing FAE or adding a circulation fan or both.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01] * 1
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deadmandave, thanks for the suggestion of using a foam door, its working great for me now!



Also can someone help me figure out whats going on with the growth on some of these blocks? is it something to do with FAE, like what SHROOMSISAY01 said? maybe i have areas in the growroom that doesn't get even air, maybe i should invest in a fan and see were that gets me. Also produce boxes are proving to be difficult to find, i can only find those shitty fiber pressed ones in a pinch, and a god damn upright freezer or refrigerator, every time i find one its sells before i have a chance to contact them, i dont know why they are in such high demand. 





Otherwise things are looking great, hit up a few restaurants to give out free samples, introduce myself and hand out businesses cards. My biggest issue im running into is that since im in southeastern PA im competing with Kenneth Square.... so that's making it difficult to price things and show the costumer a damn good reason to choose me and not the other guy, just another hurdle to overcome, I'll find a way















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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Looking great! Im hoping to get something similar running over the next few years, inspiring thread!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Zeta Shrooms]
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So what are you doing with what you're harvesting right now?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: AphexPin]
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Zeta Shrooms, thank you! good luck with your journey!
AphexPin said:
So what are you doing with what you're harvesting right now?


Since im running trials right now my harvests are not on any kind of schedule, so im going to any restaurant that will let me talk to them and giving them free samples to try out and explain who I am and what my goals are.
To me this is the hardest part, as i would imagine it would be for many people, getting your name out there and building a customer base. as of now i have gave out free samples to four restaurants and still making calls, my life has been chaos for the last couple months so im juggling a bunch of shit around right now. Once i get some of this other shit out of my way i can really start to focus on marketing myself and start making actual sales.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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rizhomushroom said:
Zeta Shrooms, thank you! good luck with your journey!
AphexPin said:
So what are you doing with what you're harvesting right now?


Since im running trials right now my harvests are not on any kind of schedule, so im going to any restaurant that will let me talk to them and giving them free samples to try out and explain who I am and what my goals are.
To me this is the hardest part, as i would imagine it would be for many people, getting your name out there and building a customer base. as of now i have gave out free samples to four restaurants and still making calls, my life has been chaos for the last couple months so im juggling a bunch of shit around right now. Once i get some of this other shit out of my way i can really start to focus on marketing myself and start making actual sales.


Awesome, that's a good use of those fruits at that stage. Are you planning on attending farmers markets near you as well?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: AphexPin]
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Yeah for sure for a little bit at least, Im not basing an income solely on farmer marker sales, more for chiefs that are there to see me and work on networking with the community, so in my eyes it will be more of a tool then an income source.
that's my plan at least, im always open to hear other peoples idea's, so if you have something lay it on me!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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rizhomushroom said:
Yeah for sure for a little bit at least, Im not basing an income solely on farmer marker sales, more for chiefs that are there to see me and work on networking with the community, so in my eyes it will be more of a tool then an income source.
that's my plan at least, im always open to hear other peoples idea's, so if you have something lay it on me!


No ideas, just curious. I've got awhile to go until I'm where you're at so I'm just following along :stoned: I was planning on mostly focusing on farmers markets this spring-summer to network my way into some more seasonally-robust customers like chefs and grocers come fall and winter. It's just that you can charge so much at farmers markets, and the expectations for consistency in supply are presumably lower.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: AphexPin]
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Being a part of a local csa or some kind of online food hub are also both good dependable customers. Especially a good csa.


It can be a bit tricky in the beginning until you get a bit of a reputation. A lot of these people running a big csa have been around long enough to watch people jump into something like mushrooms and not be dependable or quit all together after a few months. The same thing can be said about chefs.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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Ill have to look into this, thanks for the recommendation, what does csa stand for?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Community supported agriculture.
Patrons buy a share either with $$$ or by doing labor on the farm and in return they get weekly crops from the farm. Often delivered door to door.

https://growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/growingsmallfarms-csaguide/

So it presents a great opportunity for mushroom farms to partner with veggie farms who already have a community buying weekly orders of produce. The delivery infrastructure is already in place and you could potentially only deal with one person.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: deadmandave]
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I work with 2 and they are my 2 easiest and most consistent customers. One gets 40# a week and one gets 25# a week. I deliver them in bulk and they deal with everything. Having accounts that are consistent and guaranteed every week is awesome

Some of the restaurants I work with are guaranteed weekly but some aren't. It just depends. Even the ones that are guaranteed fluctuate their order amounts sometimes which can make things tricky. That's where the farmers market comes in. Grow plenty and whatever is left at the end of the week goes to the market.

Growing mushrooms is the easy part. Inventory management and dealing with accounts is much more of a pain in the ass. If you find a customer like a good csa that's the same every week you bout damn near worship them :lol:

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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Awesome input guys thank you, just signed up for one today! and still hitting up restaurants as much as i can.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Update


Okay so things i learned so far on this journey:

  • Growing is the easy part of this, if all goes well
  • Hardest part is networking and finding buyers
  • Finding proper supplies can be difficult/ expensive
  • My groom will not last for a long time I'll be surprised if i get a year out of it.
  • One of my favorite things in the world is when a chief invites you back into the kitchen and complements me on the quality of my mushrooms and the servers and kitchen staff circle around admire them and take pictures, this was my most recent experience and holy dopamine high!
  • I knew getting into this wasn't going to be easy but when things look down, pick your goddamn head up and keep moving forward, even if its one step at a time.
  • ask,ask,ask, and ask some more, you will be surprised at the amount of people that will try and help you.
  • yet to make a single sell but working hard on networking and getting my name known
  • Things are going to break, always have backups, designs will not always work, some complete failures again take a step back and reevaluate
  • Be patient
  • If your passionate about this don't give up, like i said I haven't made a single sale yet but i know that's coming soon
  • Don't be afraid to try something outside the box, experiment!
  • Ive yet to find a goddamn box supplier that meets me needs!


There is a ton more but these are the top ones off the top of my head. I have a long road ahead of me but nothing is going to stop me. I start a new job on Monday so updates maybe coming in more slowly, as much as i would love to make this y full time job, i need good health insurance, without going into too much personal detail i have some mental health issues that need addressing because i know if i don't address them this whole business will fail.
so the future is looking bright and cant wait to see were i am in 6 months to 1 year from now.

One day this will be my full time job, its my obsession and dream to be a farmer. I dream of changing the world with food and god dammit no one can change that mindset.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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:rockon::rockon::rockon:

Good observations and great thread. I like your style of doing things. Dedicated, thorough, analysed. I hope you will succeed. I'm on a similar path as I started full time commercial growing just a few months ago. Oh and congratz for the job!

:goodluck:

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: spasm666]
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spasm666 said:
:rockon::rockon::rockon:

Good observations and great thread. I like your style of doing things. Dedicated, thorough, analysed. I hope you will succeed. I'm on a similar path as I started full time commercial growing just a few months ago. Oh and congratz for the job!

:goodluck:


Thank you! that means a lot to me! and good luck on your journey!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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I know I've probably been said this before but it needs repeating often. You must have a backup everything. It's expensive as hell but it's not an option. If something with the growroom or your production fails, and it will, you don't have time to wait on a new one

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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:whathesaid:

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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i made my first sale over the weekend, but saying that I've decided to take some time off to address these other issues that keep holding me up and i cant completely focus on my mushrooms. I want kick out these issues so i can be in it 100%. i can already see the quality of my mushrooms going downhill because i don't have the time to address them. hopefully it doesn't take long to take care of this so i can get back to getting the business taking off!

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