looking for a mushroom farm

[dv8]

if you forget profitable and mass production you should have fun. anything underground will do as long as the temperature is right, ventilation is good and light access limited. you may have fun.

i feel now tempted to order a kit myself if it wasn't for the fact i have nowhere to grow'em....

[xstew]

20 or more years ago they had a large mushroom farm in Constanza but they contaminated the soil and no they will not grow there. I know as i removed all the canning equipment from the factory. so forget this area.

[kent]

I also remember about 25 or 30 years ago
LHK a farm and canning operation . It was in Jab. or Const

[mountainannie]

20 or more years ago they had a large mushroom farm in Constanza but they contaminated the soil and no they will not grow there. I know as i removed all the canning equipment from the factory. so forget this area.

please speak more about this.. how did they contaminate the soil?

and you all have me WAY wrong.. I know I SAID mushroom farm in the thread topic but please read what I am posting. No way was i thinking of a CANNING operation.. Maybe some great portabellos, to go with snails,,, think niche market to some high end restaurant clients..

this is a gig for retirement, please.. just a fun thing to keep busy.

[caribmike]

Amazon is your friend, lol...

Back to the Roots Oyster Mushroom Kit: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food

Amazon.com: mushroom growing kit

[mountainannie]

NON ONONONONONON

NOT about the mushrooms



About Constanza or Los Montones..

if you do not have info on those places

[caribmike]

Ooops

[dv8]

in the subject of contaminating the soil:
for fungi growth you need your standard compost (shredded grass, used coffee grains, crashed egg shells and other organic leftovers). plus seeds (spores). yes, you can use earth too, finely mixed with compost. but commercial growth calls for closed environment (as opposed to how fungi grown naturally in the forest or meadow).
of course you can only get few crops from one set of dirt+spores. and then you have to get rid of the dirt. it has high level of PH. it could be, maybe, dumped in the forest (perfect for pine trees). however it is best to let it lie in a compost heap for about a year prior to any commercial use (for vegetable crops) and it is best to mix it half-half with normal "clean" earth.

the problem is not post-mushroom soil. the problem is the amount of chemicals often used in commercial production.