How to Grow Mushrooms & Make $100,000 in just 6 Months
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2018
- John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits WTF Mushroom Farm near Kelowna, BC Canada and shares with you how you can grow mushrooms and make $100k in a growing season.
In this episode, John will give you a tour of WTF Mushroom farm in B.C. Canada. You will discover how they grow over a dozen varieties of mushrooms in greenhouses outdoors.
You will discover how old trees can be used to grow gourmet mushrooms that can be sold for $10-$20 a pound.
You will learn the entire process of growing mushrooms using the best practices to ensure success with minimal contamination.
You will discover how mushrooms are being grown in inexpensive, temporary greenhouses with a shade cloth during the growing season.
You will learn how many pounds of mushrooms you can produce in a portable greenhouse and how much money you can sell them for.
Finally, John will interview Brian Callow, the farmer that makes $100k in just 6 months growing mushrooms during a growing season.
Jump to the Following Part of this Episode:
01:00 Wood is a valuable resource
03:07 Purchase a GYG Tee Shirt to Help support me
03:44 Using Waste Woodchips to Grow Mushrooms
04:52 Using a hammer mill to reduce woodchip size
05:46 Specific Ingredients Fed to Mushrooms to increase yield
07:45 Mushrooms grow in breathable grow bags
10:06 Sterilizing of the Grow Bags to grow mushrooms
12:28 Entering the lab
13:00 Fridge full of different types of mushrooms
16:25 List of different types of mushrooms they are growing
18:10 Sterilized Bags ready for being inoculated
19:00 Clean Room
19:55 Inoculated Mushrooms starting to grow
21:30 Greenhouse Growing Mushrooms
22:30 Mushroom Grow Room
23:20 How much one room of mushrooms can grow
24:20 Contaminated Grow Bags
25:00 Reusing spent mushroom growing medium
26:50 Fresh harvested mushrooms
28:10 Interview with Brian the Mushroom Farmer
28:34 Why did you start growing mushrooms?
29:40 Is it really that easy to grow mushrooms?
30:56 How you can get different cultures of strains of mushroom spores?
32:40 How do mushrooms break down?
33:30 What benefits are the mushroom compost?
34:15 What other revenue streams do you have to increase revenue?
35:25 How you can start your own mushroom farm?
38:00 What are some of the health benefits of mushrooms?
39:40 How are cultivated mushrooms different than wild mushrooms?
41:20 Is the flavor different of wild vs cultivated mushrooms?
42:35 Any final words of wisdom
43:00 How can someone contact you to start a mushroom and grow mushrooms?
After watching this episode, you will learn the entire process of growing mushrooms and how you can grow mushrooms and make $100,000 in a growing season.
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I also love how you give the intimate tour. they let you look in their fridge and go inside everywhere and touch their supplies. it makes the tour more meaningful.
Mushrooms and microgreens are the most versatile food, they grow faster than any plant, there materials cost little to nothing, and they are incredibly easy to sell at markets and restaurants, everyone wants gourmet mushrooms and herbs. I quit college and started a small oyster farm in my parents garden and got 300 quid a week, I know have my own full scale farm for paying the bills, it really is the high life, its like growing money, and it's legal, unless you do psilocybin lol.
Ur gonna have to tell me more about this
@@panthrrholdings4731 would love to learn some stuff
There called cubes bra
Psilocybe Cubensis to be exact.
gimme the psilocybin
Recently got into this hobby in a region that only has one farmer growing 3 varieties... insanely good and underrated business idea
You are doing so much good work teaching people how to grow food. Congratulations!!!!
Thank you John and Brian for doing a great job in showing all the different angles of mushroom farming. We have a lot to learn as a Western society about mushrooms, I really like what Brian is doing with regards to growing local mushrooms on local substrates and growing them outdoors with sunlight and temperature changes. It would be ideal to figure out how to reduce the plastic bag waste. Another great mushroom product is creating a mushroom seasoning.
Wtfungus definitely dropping some good knowledge... This is seven years of almost failing multiple times... now refined making it look easy, the mark of a pro!
I like the fact that he points out how good it would be to sell them in dried form.
So happy to have found you John! You have taught me how to do my vegan/organic shopping years ago and since I have been so inspired from you and have been farming for 5 years so I lost your channel.. Thank god for fungus!
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Oh WOW! Those mushrooms are beautiful! Great video! Thanks for sharing this video! Great questions and answers!
John is so funny, it makes watching his videos much more enjoyable.
I am already a farmer and so far I’ve only grown more committed to adding mushrooms of all variety to my list of things I want to master and I may be ordering a course from you
Hey John what an awesome episode very interesting and great to see what the First World Guys are upto. This type of info is very slow to filter down and Thanks to channels like yours this certainly speeds up the process. Keep up the great work.
Great video. I have never seen a mushroom farm before. Very interesting.
I've been growing gourmet mushrooms for a couple years now, it's a lot more challenging and labor intensive than you think.
Have u earned a profit?
@@elisabethcitrisky1739 hard to say, i think there's a greater profit margin with value added products that with just raw fungi. i don't think profits will be as high as you think for the first year or two since you will be learning how to work with your seasonal variation and modulating climate control. weather your in door or out door your will need to make compromises and regulate energy input to affect profitability.
interesting enough the next video on microgreens could be a nice symbiotic business, or any greenhouse type business, using the CO2 from the mushroom growth to encourage plant growth, and the O2 production from the greens to help the mushroom growth. Not to mention the reuse of the mushroom compost.
You're awesome John! Thanks for the video.
Excellent!!!
I'd love to grow mushrooms, best to learn from the best and I've heard a lot about these guys for a couple years.
Thanks for the video.
No way!! haha now THATS a blast to the past! Swear I havent seen or heard of this channel in a decade!! I totally remember watching you back in those days when I still cared about my health!
Two great people here on the channel ... Go Canada!!!! Love you guys!!
What a ripper of an episode. Loved it.
THANKS JOHN, FOR ANOTHER SUPER FASCINATING VIDEO!!!! WOW!!!!! NOTHING BETTER THAN A GREAT, MUSHROOM PIZZA!!!...
Excellent info. Really interesting and so well organized.
Way to go. Your passion definitely shows !
The great thing about mushrooms is that on top of selling the fruits you can also sell the "roots" or reuse them. I just planted my first small pots as a test 2 weeks ago, growing fast and almost ready to fruit.
My experiments turned out better than expected, I will keep it short and say this: these things (oysters) will pretty much grow anywhere in any conditions. Don't let fear dominate. Just do it.
What do you mean the roots? So you're harvesting your oysters, cutting the mycelium and substrate off the base, and replanting the mycelium/substrate you cut off the fruiting body in the same kind of substrate? Or planting it under a little soil?
@@BaltimoresBerzerker Put the used substrate back into a new mix, for a new batch. Nothing is lost or discarded.
@@FeelingShred oh, you're saying you take spent substrate and use it to inoculate your next grow? I thought you were saying when you harvest you leave some of the stem behind, which in my experience usually just leads to contamination.
@@BaltimoresBerzerker Yeah usually people just bury that spent substrate in soil so it decomposes (sometimes, the spent substrate will even give additional flushes when left in nature...) or you can shred it all apart to use portions of it in a mix for new substrate. The space that I was using for these experiments was rented out after the 1st yield, so I couldn't go much further with the experiments. Also, it seems like using coffee grounds in the mix made them taste a bit too strong, maybe not using coffee grounds in the future, or using much less of it.
We love you so much, Jhon
Back when I was a kid in NW Florida worked at the Mushroom farms over in Quincy, Watermelon season finished then we went over there to make money . We trapped animals, pick Genseng, Grunted Worms, Loaded Watermelons and Picked Mushrooms . threw out to the year to make money while we went to school.. It bet working at a fast food place
Do you have any recommendations on where to get a job at a mushroom farm in the Tampa Bay Area? Any help is really appreciated man.
@@BaltimoresBerzerker Hardly anything around Tampa area, Try Brooksville I go up there when I can like looking at the abandoned places in the forest Did notice Mushrooms in some places and places up there Everything around here Ag. wise is being taking over by immigrants Lot of them are getting into the Worm Grunting because they do not have to use another person as a go between
@@altha-rf1et worm grunting?
@@altha-rf1et oh wow, cool. Thanks man.
John, that was a very interesting video, Thanks a million. I love Brian's Tee-shirt WTF
I have a ton of wood chips and sawdust from when they cut down my maple trees. I been thinking of pasteurizing it and growing some shrooms
I love this, but I will never love it as much as this guy loves mushrooms. Respect.
Really enjoyed this video. Thank you guys!!!!
21:31 dude almost said "crack rock" instead of "cash crop". lol. that explains his high energy.
He currently has 666k subscribers. Perfection!
or "crash cop". still funny.
@@DinkFairGamefarm
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More importantly you're wasting ours.
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I thought I tripping, but nope he did almost say it....ha!
Mycology/Mushroom cultivation is extremely useful to me as I live in a condo, yet still want to collect local waste streams like organic coffee grounds.
It's a great adjunct to Permaculture and even for growing your own adjunct medicines.
I don't foresee it being something I try to make money doing in near future, my focus now is quality over quantity and I think unfortunately some people cut corners with growing plants or mushrooms all too often...
Another great video...thanks
Steaming 'Wessels' That is old skool Star Trek... much respect!
Great vid John👍 I love growing mushrooms,I love that they grow on a variety of substrates 🤙
Stay cool, be safe JK🤙
How do I get in touch with you to order the right kind? I don’t know the best ones to buy. Please help me get in touch with someone.
Thank you for posting this very informative video. Interesting to see the scale of your business and what it takes to make a living off mushroom growing
You are such a help to me. Thank you
Everyday I eat my mushrooms--oysters, shiitake, mytakie, reshi, lion's mane, and others. Once a week I have a three mushroom soup for lunch or dinner. Yummy. Thanks for all the information.
Do you have any favorites? I have oyster mushrooms growing now and I have some maitake ready to start soon. I am looking for other edible types to start growing. I am thinking chicken of the woods would be good cause ive seen pics of people making chicken fried mushroom from it and it looked amazing. I wonder if chicken of the woods mushroom really tastes like chicken like people say!?
@@oldgorillascooterclub2597 I put the above in my morning coffee. I'm not too keen on frying anything. Although I've seen some fried lion's main that makes me want to try it that way.
@@annfuller9044 I agree I don't like deep frying, but I don't mind pan frying foods as long as it isn't super often
Hahaha...."Steaming Wessel". Loved that Star Trek reference. :)
Baking (turkey) bags can work too. You can put a turkey bag in a pressure cooker to sterilize the bag and medium.
Magic mushrooms! Yeah!
All Mushrooms are magic
All mushrooms are magic D
Willy Myco
Abraca-trip-your-balls-off-dra!
Awesome man,very honorable and good spirited human being.. god bless you and congatulations
very informative vid very greatful loads of love from Tasmania we have the right temperatures here.
Very informative video thank you for sharing the information.
I really respect the fact that you started by saying “if you are in it for the money, just do micro greens”
Appreciate the attention to detail John. I'm impressed you remembered everything. Can you link our RUclips channel in the show notes.
i am interested in going how do i start?
WHAT THE FUNGUS i like your shirt 😎🍄
This is stupid. No he can’t.
@@anniewearphilly John didnt get into the numbers but we do about $20K a month in fresh mushrooms April-Nov
@@whatthefungus good job, what has been your investment payoff goals? Is there a market area close by that concentrates your buyers or were you door to door at first?
I will get the book. Is it better to go Amazon or direct?
Awesome videos, this guy hits the weed real hard!
Awesome video I love the idea of cultivating indigenous strains
Thanks for being you, bud
I have to say that mushrooms are the most amazing edible organism.
Umm... No.
I don’t think it’s considered an organism if it doesn’t have organs
Luis :3 Fungi are organisms. An organism is not defined by it’s actual organs, but it’s living “parts”
What a bunch of fun guys
very fascinating. i love this concept. I hope WTF does well.
Outdoor mushrooms are easy to grow, but inside not so much. You constantly need a sterile environment and the slightest little bit of mold can destroy an entire grow in a couple days.
I grow them outside in my garden bed and I get mushrooms every time it rains. All summer long.
@Piper Mccoy The thing about growing outdoors is that the bacteria that would decimate an indoor grow has natural predators outside and is kept in check by nature. Sure, it may infect your grow, but it will not overtake it because it is constantly getting attacked itself!--Nature is amazing!
ang galing bosing naboost ang plan ko to do mushrooming thru your style .salamat ng maraming marami
+10 for Star Trek "wessel" reference
Lol "where they start making that crac..,oops" 🤪🤣 Dude is definitely eating the "special" varieties 🦄
wessel star trek.. awesome man! love it,
I did a show for PM magazine in the 80's in PA growing Shitake mushrooms on oak stumps; multiple rows lined up for 50 yards
I'm impressed. Thanks for sharing such knowledge. What mushroom species can grow in Africa especially Nigeria
Dude, you're awesome. Many thanks and best wishes :D
favorite youtuber as of now
I remember this dude had a video about keeping pests and stuff out of your garden and talked about a strain of weed he has😂. This dude's pretty well set up if I say so myself.
That compost has to be crazy diverse with fungus... With all those different strains of spores in the cakes. Awesome
Superwork! Thanks
Hi John, Thank you for sharing the video about growing mushrooms. I learned on this and I would like to grow edible mushroom .God Bless you guys!
Ive been wanting to learn more about mushroom farming. Thank you for creating such a lovely video. :)
Thank you
Awesome love Mushrooms
Great video!
I love King Oyster mushrooms. So meaty and firm.
love the star trek wessel comment! thanks for the video!
I enjoyed that video.
This was a great video my dude. Good stuff man Im glad I subscribed. You do good work
100k a year is possible if you have lots to invest and a good salesman. Growing up on a small farm and knowing many small farmers the way most make money is by having lots of 2 to 4k dollar projects going at a time. Bee's, berries, veggies, goats, sheep, mushrooms, ect. That way the market isn't saturated. The products are somewhat seasonal. And if one product doesn't sell you have others to fall back on. The average farmer in the midwest averages 125$ an acre. That being the average...
That cannot be right. $125 an acre is just awful.
Awesome job
Wow, awesome video
Your Awesome man, very cool video.
Fantastic share John! Mushrooms are so amazing. Wishing you a beautiful evening x)
What other components do you recommend to mix up with the wood chips so I could grow Shiitake mushrooms?
He rollin rn💯
LOL, I live just a little North of Petaluma, in Santa Rosa, CA. 💚👍😎
Cool video and cool guy growing mushrooms
Love you man thanks
Drinking Game time!! Every time he says "Basically" drink...
Awesome video
This was 'Fun-Guys' 😃🍄
wow you're the first one to ever make this joke!
Hi was looking for ideas on how to grow mushroom and came across your show thank you it was helpful am still doing some research on growing mushroom need some advice
Matt_tripper on Instagram
Steaming Wessel lol. I love it.
Grow Greens and Prosper 🖖
6:01
and of course the:.... olives.. wtf bro you're supposed to say mushrooms lool.. mush love
Idk bro olives are fucking goood on pizza
What The Fungus are you tailgating off of Curtis's videos? Yours was way more detailed than Curtis's video. 15 minutes versus versus versus what...….45 minutes. Wow that's a long time. Lol...………. Awesome job! My friend is suffering from seizures real bad. She hasn't moved to Colorado to try medical marijuana yet. Going to try the Lions Mane you talked about. Pray that is helps her. If you know anything else to add let me know. Awesome job!
Perhaps you friend could benefit from some melatonin supplementation.
Yeah.... can't wait to see some guy in Vegas growing mushrooms in his garage.
how do i store a mycelium for a long period and what is the difference between a musshom with long or short steam? (awesome video)
Really cool.
wow great video.
hello John long time no see hope you are well we are approaching growing season in Pennsylvania in a couple more months this year I will be growing mushrooms possibly sewing some kits I can definitely see the importance of the lions mane mushroom and recently I learned how a man cooked it exactly like a steak if you would like that link let me know he has a channel on here and his video went viral on TikTok he gives an excellent presentation by smashing the mushroom between two frying pans and then marinating it with a beet juice to get the red like the meat color etc. quite a nice job😮
I applaud your level of fukd up and maintain..
🤣🤣
I don't know man ! Last time I listened to one of you guys I was tripping for hours and had chest pains but tell me you like onions or mushrooms fried in sourghdough or beer batter or both and I just may think your the best thing since sourghdough bread .
I love the edible coral mushroom. Im very very knew to this. But would love to know how to grow these specific mushrooms where can i go? To do this?
I almost choked when I saw his t-shirt lol
That's his brand
He’s drippin bruh
here's a few suggestions worth trying
choose thegrow them in the best conditions - some such as oyster muchrooms like cool humid conditions and may be placed outside (I learned these and why they work from Gregs Mushroom Grower site )
top variety - there are many available.