Australia: Talking Gourmet Shrooms And Urban Farming With The Mushroom Guys
You can use straw and coffee grounds – especially in the home setting those are quite good – but when you’re dealing with restaurants the quality of product you get purely from hardwood sawdust is much higher.
By Kale Armstrong
Perth is OK
Sept 22, 2022
Excerpt:
I was really fascinated with produce and growing produce in an urban environment. I felt that that was going to be a pretty big thing in the future. I also had this strong love for cooking and I couldn’t find good mushrooms anywhere. I sort of just combined the two and that sent me down a rabbit hole which ended up with me having a farm.
So, in the beginning – about four years ago now – we had this grow station. It was pretty large-scale for a home mushroom farm. I had this house at the time – it was a little four bedroom spot – I reckon about 70 to 80 percent of it ended up being a part of the mushroom farm right of the bat. We certainly went fairly big scale. We wanted to see if the concept worked on a commercial level from the beginning.
We wanted to see if we could grow on a small(ish) commercial scale first. Test the market with that and from there we planned to expand. We essentially just did three farmers markets, rented a premises and went full steam ahead.
One of the rooms we had we essentially made a lab and incubation room. I had a whole room dedicated to it. Completely sealed off to any contaminants. We lined the entire room with a plastic sheet, set up all the filtration and then the lab.
