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An Interesting Concept - "Made in Transit"
    #7698487 - 11/30/07 11:32 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Mushrooms come from Trucks



Where do mushrooms come from? Most people think from the forest after a good rain if we’re talking about wild mushrooms, or from manure piles in some deep dark cave if we’re talking about cultivated ones. But mushrooms could come from trucks, and not in the sense that they are delivered by them, but actually be grown on board on the way to the supermarket. Distributors could become farmers turning their trucks into high density growing facilities and reprogramming what is normally a waste of time into essential growth time.

Our obsession with fresh food irrespective of season and location fuels constant developments in extending their life after the moment of harvest until the point of consumption. Ripening is manipulated through the removal or addition of the ripening gas ethylene, and breathing is slowed down through extensive refrigeration and through modified atmosphere packaging. But these so-called post-harvest technologies are not only economically and ecologically expensive, they are essentially damage control measures that only slow the eventual deterioration down.

‘Made in Transit’ proposes to shift the paradigm from preserving freshness to enabling growth along the way, a shift from ‘best before’ to ‘ready by’ for perishable goods. Growing food on the way would mean it gets better as it travels and that it would be still alive upon arrival, ready for harvest by the consumer (bypassing harvest labour, which for mushrooms can account for 40% of overall production cost). Applied to mushrooms, it also could mean other unexpected things, like more diversity in our supermarkets as some of the most fragile mushrooms (too fragile to withstand transport) could theoretically become available anywhere by growing them on the way. The global industry already shapes our food—thickening a tomato’s wall so it can withstand rough handling, or growing watermelons square so they stack more efficiently. Humans created this global condition. The next step is when the global market starts to produce our food, literally.





http://www.nextnature.net/?p=1757
http://www.culiblog.org/2007/07/made-in-transit-growing-food-in-a-waste-of-time/
http://www.thegraffik.com/2007/11/29/made-in-transit-a-supply-chain-concept-for-on-the-way-growth-by-agata-jaworska/


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Re: An Interesting Concept - "Mushrooms from Trucks" [Re: ivi]
    #7698509 - 11/30/07 11:36 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Not that it is exactly the same, but some growers in Holland ship their trays to Eastern Europe to be picked and distributed, because they would have to pay pickers $15-20/hr in Holland.


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Re: An Interesting Concept - "Mushrooms from Trucks" [Re: YidakiMan]
    #7698533 - 11/30/07 11:41 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

that's a really amazing idea!

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Re: An Interesting Concept - "Mushrooms from Trucks" [Re: dirtworshipper]
    #7698612 - 11/30/07 11:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I can think of a few problems with trying to grow them during transit. One, the shaking/road vibrations during transit would cause a lot of aborts. Pins and growing mushrooms do not like to be banged around.

The second would be all the air exchange and space required to fruit mushrooms wouldn't leave much room on the truck for quantity, so lots of fuel would be used to transport a small amount of product. Third, once they're tightly packed into the truck, it would be hard to monitor the crop for competitor fungi or insects without unloading them to inspect the ones at the front of the truck.
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Re: An Interesting Concept - "Mushrooms from Trucks" [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7698658 - 11/30/07 12:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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it would be hard to monitor the crop for competitor fungi or insects without unloading them to inspect the ones at the front of the truck.
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I see this as the biggest problem, but I think it can be easily solved by taking care of sterilily during inoculation and packaging procedures.



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Re: An Interesting Concept - "Mushrooms from Trucks" [Re: ivi]
    #7702679 - 12/01/07 12:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

One thing that was "conveniently" left out was the maturation period.

I'm a bit confused with the graphic shown. They'll inoculate substrate, put it in a truck and drive around in circles until they're ready? Wouldn't the maturation/cropping period exceed 15 days at least?

I could see putting substrate ready for cropping in an environmentally controlled feeder. However, the time-in-transit would have to exceed 10 days for cropping. That's bigger than the continental U.S. Also, the feeder would have to be staffed with a driver and a grower. At the very least it would need two people.


Also it encourages single use packaging. We need to give the market more reason to get away from single use packaging. Unfortunately, exotic mushrooms are expensive at retail price. This makes it easier to sell a pre-weighed portion for $2.99-4.99, rather than bulk mushrooms $16.99/lb. The bulk is cheaper per unit, but the price gives the potential buyer sticker shock.

I've priced my bulk trays to give a substantial discount over cartonized mushrooms. Cartonizing my mushrooms more than doubles my COGS.


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