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E Book How To Set Up A Low Tech Mushroom Farm PDF
E Book How To Set Up A Low Tech Mushroom Farm PDF
A Low Tech
Mushroom
Farm
Growing Mushrooms The Easy Way
Table of Content
Quick Summary..................................................................................................3
More income?...................................................................................................26
Next Steps...........................................................................................................28
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Quick Summary
Ok, if that sounds like something you want to learn more about,
let’s get stuck in!
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Small Scale Food Growing
You don’t need access to land, and chances are that no one
else in your area is already doing it.
Sounds impossible?
Then chances are you already know a bit about growing food
on a small scale.
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How To Set Up A Low Tech Mushroom Farm
Not just that- you probably also know that you need to grow a
lot of produce, have good growing skills AND access to land.
But do you also know that you can grow a lot of high-value
mushrooms in un-used spaces, and that it can be quite quick
to learn?
If not, let me tell you a bit about it, and why I’m such a fan of
growing them. I’ll also point you in the direction of how to get
started if it interests you.
Note: this is just an example of one small scale setup’s weekly metrics.
You can obviously grow on a bigger or smaller scale than this too.
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Grow Fast, Grow Anywhere
When I set out learning how to grow them back in 2008 with
just a book to learn from, it took around a year for me to get
reliable results, but I’ve since taught many people who have
learnt in a matter of hours.
Oysters (the easiest variety to learn) can grow in just 3-4 weeks
from start to finish - and you can grow a crop like this every
week of the year.
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How To Set Up A Low Tech Mushroom Farm
You can also grow a lot in a small space, but more about that
in a minute.
ake a look inside our low tech mushroom farm in this short
T
video tour of our growing set up:
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Local Mushrooms Rule!
And being the fresh and fragile things that they are, they don’t
travel well.
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How To Start Your Own Mini
Mushroom Farm In 5 Steps
I’d love to see more small scale mushrooms farmers out there
bringing top quality mushrooms to their local area.
But I’m aware it can feel a bit overwhelming with lots to learn.
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How To Set Up A Low Tech Mushroom Farm
I’ve built a few different fruiting room designs over the years,
but our most recent one is the cheapest and simplest, built
inside a hydroponics grow tent like this one.
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That grow room only took 2 days to set up and cost under
$1500 (the shelves were a 3rd of the cost - it could be cheaper
with existing or lower cost shelving).
The size of the space you need depends on lots of factors like
how many mushrooms you’re aiming to grow, how you build
your fruiting room and what options you have available to you.
You may not want to grow this many if you’re working on your
own though, as it’s a lot of work.
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The essentials are really just access to water and electric, and
being able to add a simple ducting installation bringing air in
and out of the growing space.
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Our mixing & inoculation room. Nice and simple - just a compost tumbler
and workbench (we don’t even use the Hepa air filters these days)
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Incubation
You can also use hanging rails instead, like the image below,
if you’re growing Oyster mushrooms in bigger column bags:
Fruiting
There are so many different ways to go about creating your
fruiting room - here’s a few ways it can be done:
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Shipping container
Hydroponics tent
There’s ups and down to each of these options, and it’s difficult
for me to say which one would be best for you, as it depends
on your space and budget.
If you join our free email course (below) you’ll get to learn more
about why we think the hydroponics tent is a great option for
most people just getting started.
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There’s a lot of detail for this stage - way too much to cover in
any useful way in this article - but it’s totally do-able for most
people, regardless of your skills.
Eric (who I run GroCycle with), and I are pretty basic at DIY,
yet we built this little 5m2 fruiting room quickly and easily in a
couple of days.
The point is, if you want to do it, you can make it happen. It’s
not rocket science, and it can also be done on a budget to
begin with and improved over time if you’re short of funds.
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To give you an idea of how simple it can be, here’s a free video
teaching you how to grow mushrooms on coffee grounds on
a very small scale:
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Summary Instructions
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Over the last couple of years we’ve been trialing other varieties
using the low-tech approach as well.
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Now you can learn the basics in a few hours and be successfully
growing right from the start.
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You watch tiny mushroom pins appear and then grow, doubling
in size every day, until they are magnificent mushrooms and
ready for you to harvest.
You hear a crisp sound as you twist them off the bag......
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Check out the sale price per kg for Oyster and Shiitake
mushrooms in your country by seeing how much they’re sold
for in any of the above places that you can find them in.
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More income?
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Next Steps....
S o, hopefully this article has helped you to see why
mushroom cultivation has been gaining in popularity
over the last few years.
If so, keep an eye out for a series of emails I’ll send you over
the next few days.
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