Tour of a Commercial Mushroom Farm I

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Do you want to learn more about commercial mushroom farming? We have an online course that will teach you the process! You can learn more about this course here: https://fungi.myshopify.com/pages/com...

In this online commercial mushroom growing course you will:

- Learn how to grow 5-500 pounds of mushrooms each week, depending on your goals
- Learn the mushroom life cycle and ecological roles
- Receive an outline to the stages of mushroom cultivation
- Discover successful cultivation methods for growing shiitake on logs, oyster on straw, wine cap on wood chips and other at-home techniques
- Know how to cultivate mushrooms on high yield substrates like supplemented sawdust
- Develop a mission, goal, and strategies based business
- Know the specialty mushroom industry and opportunities to plug into it
- Learn how to sell mushrooms as a stand alone business or in conjunction with other crops
- Make a business plan and start growing/selling mushrooms

About the Instructor of the Online Commercial Growing Course

Willie Crosby has been cultivating mushrooms for the last 9 years. He started Fungi Ally in the basement of his house and grew out to a 3,000 square foot warehouse with 5 tractor trailers attached, a total of 5000 square feet. Fungi Ally grew 500 pounds of mushrooms a week until September of 2018, when that aspect of the business was sold. Now Fungi Ally focuses on education and spawn production. Willie has taught online for Cornell University and UMass Amherst for the last 3 years. Willie taught mushroom cultivation in person at UMass for 4 years. Willie has received 5 SARE grants and 6 other grants over the last 5 years for growing mushrooms and educating the public about mushrooms.

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