She Quit Her Job to Start a Mushroom Farm & Makes $200,000 a Year
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2018
- John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits Funky Fungi, an Indoor Commercial Mushroom farm that is less than a year old and on track to make $200,000 this year growing mushrooms.
In this episode, you will learn how mushrooms are grown in just 14 days that can be sold for $20 a pound (retail) or $10 a pound (chef direct)
First, John will tell you how the farmer, Jewell quit her job as a stockbroker to grow mushrooms, he will then go into the warehouse building to give you a full tour of the facilities.
You will learn about all the major areas of the farm where different tasks take place. First, you will learn what the mushrooms eat (grows on). Next, you will learn how the growing medium is sterilized by taking a steam sauna.
You will then enter the clean room where the growing medium is inoculated with mushroom spawn, and kept in the right temperature to colonize their bags.
Next, you will learn why its important to climate control your growing area, to ensure the best production, color, and flavor of the mushrooms.
You will discover why it's important to wear a mask to protect your lungs from any kind of small foreign particulate.
Next, you will learn how an unconventional bag cutting technique can increase your harvest.
You will then discover what some nice blue oyster mushrooms look like when they almost ready for harvest.
You will learn how the mushrooms are stored post-harvest in a walk-in cooler using a 5,000 BTU window air conditioner unit.
Next, John will interview Jewell the Fungi Diva to learn more about growing mushrooms and Funky Fungi Farm.
Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
04:30 Farm Tour Starts
05:12 Warehouse Space
07:30 What do Mushrooms Eat?
10:50 Mixing the Mix Wood and Soy Husks with Water
13:12 Filling bags with Growing Medium
13:49 Sterilizing Growing Medium using a stock tank and Steam Sauna
17:41 Entering Clean Lab Room
18:01 Letting Sterilized Bags Cool Down to Ambient temperature
18:44 Inoculated Growing Medium with Mushroom Spawn in a sterile environment
20:42 Allow the Mushroom Growing Medium to Colonize the Whole Bag
22:33 Testing Temperature of the Temperature inside bags to ensure proper temperature
23:49 Air conditioning to climate control to grow mushrooms
27:00 Puting on a mask to protect against spores
27:49 Entering Climate Control Mushroom Growing Room
28:40 Unconventional ways of cutting mushroom bags to increase harvest
29:52 Have the right moisture level and temperature to grow the mushrooms
31:00 First Flush of Mushrooms and Second Flush of Mushrooms
32:15 Growing Many varieties of Mushrooms to Diversify
33:33 Mushrooms grow in 14 days until a harvest
34:33 Walk in Cooler using a Cool-Bot and Air Conditioner
35:07 Freshly harvest mushrooms - how to select the best mushrooms
37:00 Fulfil a niche in your area that is needed
37:55 Interview with Jewel the Mushroom Diva Farmer
38:20 How did you get into farming and Growing Mushrooms?
39:00 Is it true you started less than a year ago?
40:00 How did you learn how to grow mushrooms?
41:00 Why did you quit your job and start a mushroom farm?
42:00 Compare Microgreens vs Growing Mushrooms which is best?
43:25 Why did you decide to sell to restaurants instead of farmers markets?
45:00 How much time does your mushroom farm take?
47:00 What are some of the challenges you have had growing Mushrooms?
49:20 What percentage of your gross income is profit?
51:10 How did you find and build relationships to sell your mushrooms?
54:23 Why did you start a RUclips Channel to Share your Mushroom Farming Journey?
56:12 What's one fact about mushrooms that you were surprised to learn?
57:04 What is one tip for people who are considering starting a mushroom farm?
59:00 What are some words of wisdom you would like to share with my viewers today?
1:01:55 How can you learn more about Funky Fungi?
After watching this episode, you will learn all of the basics on how mushrooms are grown indoors on a commercial scale, including all the tips you need to know to be successful growing mushrooms.
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Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
04:30 Farm Tour Starts
05:12 Warehouse Space
07:30 What do Mushrooms Eat?
10:50 Mixing the Mix Wood and Soy Husks with Water
13:12 Filling bags with Growing Medium
13:49 Sterilizing Growing Medium using a stock tank and Steam Sauna
17:41 Entering Clean Lab Room
18:01 Letting Sterilized Bags Cool Down to Ambient temperature
18:44 Inoculated Growing Medium with Mushroom Spawn in a sterile environment
20:42 Allow the Mushroom Growing Medium to Colonize the Whole Bag
22:33 Testing Temperature of the Temperature inside bags to ensure proper temperature
23:49 Air conditioning to climate control to grow mushrooms
27:00 Puting on a mask to protect against spores
27:49 Entering Climate Control Mushroom Growing Room
28:40 Unconventional ways of cutting mushroom bags to increase harvest
29:52 Have the right moisture level and temperature to grow the mushrooms
31:00 First Flush of Mushrooms and Second Flush of Mushrooms
32:15 Growing Many varieties of Mushrooms to Diversify
33:33 Mushrooms grow in 14 days until a harvest
34:33 Walk in Cooler using a Cool-Bot and Air Conditioner
35:07 Freshly harvest mushrooms - how to select the best mushrooms
37:00 Fulfil a niche in your area that is needed
37:55 Interview with Jewel the Mushroom Diva Farmer
38:20 How did you get into farming and Growing Mushrooms?
39:00 Is it true you started less than a year ago?
40:00 How did you learn how to grow mushrooms?
41:00 Why did you quit your job and start a mushroom farm?
42:00 Compare Microgreens vs Growing Mushrooms which is best?
43:25 Why did you decide to sell to restaurants instead of farmers markets?
45:00 How much time does your mushroom farm take?
47:00 What are some of the challenges you have had growing Mushrooms?
49:20 What percentage of your gross income is profit?
51:10 How did you find and build relationships to sell your mushrooms?
54:23 Why did you start a RUclips Channel to Share your Mushroom Farming Journey?
56:12 What's one fact about mushrooms that you were surprised to learn?
57:04 What is one tip for people who are considering starting a mushroom farm?
59:00 What are some words of wisdom you would like to share with my viewers today?
1:01:55 How can you learn more about Funky Fungi?
Funky FunGirls does sound like a good name.
A girlfriend and a wife 😂🤣😂🤣
video very intersting but need pictures - seeds, spore and etc
Jewell is a Farm Her. Awesome!
Dunno how well this would work on the West Coast...too many such farms, etc, that the price is much lower.
Been watching Jewell's channel for awhile now. Every since the hydroponic tents she used to grow in. Glad she's getting recognition for all of her hard work she's done to get to where she is.
whats her channel?
@@earthsmedicine445 ruclips.net/user/jdjuergensenvideos
@@mattheww8504 Thank you!
Thank you both. This was very inspiring and positive. The world needs more of this. Bless u both.
John you just made me so happy by doing this interview!!!! Going to subscribe to her channel now.
I always find this guy's videos when I'm binging on gardening inspiration. I like this guy very good at what he does sharing caring about gardening
Thanks a lot for the encouragement, subscribed from Zambia, Africa as a start up company in mushroom/micro green farming, thanks once again!
Amazing stuff John. Thanks for sharing all this useful info!
So impressed! You go girl! Now that’s a go getter. It’s funny because I’d just got done watching her business videos. Kinda really went over my head. I guess I’d love to see a business plan start up.
That's my friend and mentor Jewell! So excited for her.
I'm in the process of building a 55 gallon steel drum steam sterilizer. Hoping to have a little side business selling mushrooms to farmers markets and chefs soon! Thanks for the video, absolutely love it! Inspiring and informative!
This is incredibly informative and inspirational! Thanks for this, I’m going to subscribe to her channel now.
Great video John. Thank you for sharring it. I am now interested about growing mushrooms, will definetly visit this lovely lady's RUclips channel 👍
God bless you 🤗
I really want to start growing mushrooms and you made one of the best and most informative videos about starting a small but still nice size mushroom grow.. thank you for your time and great content.
You can find organic soybean hulls, but they run about double that of conventional.
I remember the videos where she started to grow in her own flat. Good to se her biz developing.
John, you are awesome. Thank you so much for what you do.
This was a great video!!! Answered questions for me!
Thanks John, I love the idea of growing mushrooms. I feel like a lab scientist when doing it.
Thank you for bringing the joy.
You're awesome.
Awesome Young Man! I enjoyed your video very much. Thanks.
She is really inspirational...good job, wish you the best of success👍
You cover very interesting places John and I DO cook mushrooms I find as well as the store ones. The videos on foraging are good enough, collectively, as to help one be SURE about it.
Thank you John! I think Ill pick up some merch when I can!
Loved this video! Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Thank You John .Thank You Jewell ! Great video !
That old white Stamets dude is the KING of mushrooms.
FISH ON old lol what are you 10?
@@visit402 he’s not wrong...
Damn right.
So so inspiring, very impressive (calm) woman !!
Love you John, farmers are a special kind of people, healthy body, healthy mind :)
Congratulations. Looks like an A+ operation.
John, It would help to know what the net profit is from these small businesses. Gross profit means nothing. If their GP is $100K and Overhead is $105K, their net profit is in the red. So it would help to know what these businesses are making after expenses.....
She basically says the profit is around 100k more or less GP with 400 pounds a week and a steady customer base avoiding wholesalers..
So not terrible but it's nowhere near 200k. Clickbait
50% margin is red
From what I've heard and seen typically mushroom farms make around 30-40% gross margin
@@charlie27775 how is 50% margin red?
Thank you for this video.
Lots of Nice information. Thank you !:)
I love this woman. Subscribed!
Thanks for the inspiration , great info . 💛🍄🍄💪🏻
Maybe John could mention this in the description.
Yes! We need Hoodies from you John, we are in Michigan so that would be awesome!!!
John, Thanks for your informative videos. Just recently came upon your RUclips channel.. Curious. How had covid-19 effected the micro-green and mushroom business?
Unfortunately it looks like Jewell has had to shut her operation down due to some problems with her lease. This is what was reported on her Instagram page. I hope she is able to find a new place and start again. She put a ton of money into that commercial space.
It's probably because she spent so much unnecessary money to grow her Mushrooms
@@idonotconsent she shut it down a month after this video was up. she did did not make it the full year meaning she did not get that 200k and that 200kis not all profit. there is a ton of recurring cots. she was spending thousands monlthy on HWFP and Hulls along with other stuff
genetic awakening what did she spend that was unnecessary?
@@FRANKMANGIAPANE If you don't have the experience with growing your own through trial and error I'm not going to break down everything she bought and didn't need. I'm not trying to be rude, I've just personally spent way too much unnecessary money on my own figuring out what works because theirs a lot of false information about growing Oyster Mushrooms online. Good luck to you. what I can say is it's something that grows outside naturally across the USA and it out competes almost every other fungus except other highly valuable fungus
@@geneticawakening I do not think she spend money finding stuff out. what she did was fine she had all the stop any big mush farm has
I used to hate how this guy would drone on forever instead of sticking to the subject but now I learned to love him and his quirky personality. Lol
Watch it all again. He throws tidbits of intel everywhere! He's fun. He seems like such a sweetheart.
Excellent video!
John, bravo. The fact that you showcased a woman of color knocking the business out of the ball park means so much to me. I can finally see someone that looks like me in this farming game! I follow so many farmers and homesteaders and we are terribly under represented. I love and have learned so much from your videos and have been following you for years. Thank you a million times over.
@Review Mylife Why are you replying to my positive comment with something so negative?
So when John mentioned all old White dudes are all you ever see growing mushrooms did you think that was stupid too? It"s true. I am a woman of color and I also grow. I follow a lot of growers, homesteaders and the like and they showcase a lot of people but I have only seen two people of color showcased in the three years I have been watching. I don't think it"s stupid to send John cudos. Too bad you feel it necessary to try to kill someone else's joy. Images are important and everyone loves to see themselves represented in the mix,. Peace.
You yourself are very stupid, ignorant and immature. Peace.
Bee-She should be proud to be representing women of colour, who are extremely under-represented. And we all know he's goofier than a shithouse rat, otherwise...very enthusiastic.
@Bee Anonymous You are a troll! Just shut up and go way.
Miss you Jewell. Come back strong soon.
Excellent video
This guy is so funny... love his humor!
Dude! I'm 20 miles north of there. Love it!!!
Hey, so you are really close to lots of us farmers here in sc PA, While you're here you should come visit.
It comes from Pennsylvania ❤
So glad she has got it all dialed in.
Wow, this woman has me really impressed
Jewell. You ROCK!
You are the man John!
There seems to be so much overhead in this method of growing mushrooms. The mushroom growers in my area all grow on logs and they're making $2000 a week and there's very little overhead. Am I missing something? Is there a reason why growers produce mushrooms this way? I'm thinking about adding mushrooms as part of my organic farm. I would appreciate any input!
Yes, Jerry, there's a lot of fearmongering in this field, just like in farming in general. "Buy our special magical pot and buy our own secret formula fertilizer to grow plants like you never saw before!" kind of thing... What I learned is: just do it. Don't wait. Just go!
Did you ever add mushroom growing? I'm curious how it went.
John, I have a feeling you were on some magic mushrooms while shooting the video...lol Love your work brother.
"Yeah these all just got steralized!" proceeds to touch everything on the rack
Bahaha u so funny. I thought of the comic character stuffed in the bag😂
Those mushroom look so cute.
I am experimenting growing mushrooms. Quite fun🍄🌈😃🤙
I am wondering how much people farmed Mushrooms in an area such as Ireland which had Potato Famine. Could mushrooms be farmed and dehydrated for storage? It seems mushrooms could supplement the use of dehydrated potatoes during times of need?
There must be a way to get a good deal on the substrate.
Watch out for glyphosate.
Thank you for sharing informative and helpful videos!
Hey John! What type of mushrooms do you juice!?
That's a wicked smart substrate...
yes wicked smaht !
which type of mushrooms is best to sell?
1:40 Yeah, you made me chuckle
Could you steam steralize while using the mixer?
Super cool 🤙👍🍄
hi Sir, i was so impressed and inspired by you and i wish i could have like this soon... in God's well.🙏🙏🙏🙏
My concern would be that heated plastic will peach in to the substrate and taken up by the mushrooms. Many growers are not using sterilising methods without any issues also.
John you sanitized yer shoes ...what about yer hands ...hahaha am I the only one that caught that ...did you wash yer hands ???
Balloon boy...?
I have been following your videos for a really long now. In this video mate, I really don't know. I think you really liked her.
This is a great video overviewing the process. The only thing I would question, if I were doing this myself, is using soy as a growing medium considering the amount of GMO and glyphosphate use in the soy industry. How much of that is being transferred into the mushrooms? Also, where are the wood chips being sourced?
Hmm this video gave me the idea to maybe start a mushroom grower equipment store. If you see this and know of someone doing it. Please reply with link.
Dig your Vibe Jewel @Funky Fungi! Takes money to make money Sometimes!
Amazing! She's awesome
That tank can not sterilize as it won’t hold pressure. It only pasteurizes
Loved the blue oyster cult joke!
How many sq feet is her farm (warehouse)?
49:03 Jewell says "thank you Ben". Would that be the same Ben that does a lot of the the work for mossy Creek? 56:56 "something things goes wrong your Fff you missed it" 👍✌️
Light work
I can't believe I spent months researching this and I just lost my first flush ever because I had to spend a week away from home for work. When I got back, they (white oysters) were already turning the caps up, do anyone know if they can still be eaten like that? At least the results were impressive, they fruited before completing 4 weeks old. Anyway, I gotta hope for the second flush. I still don't know how those guys taste, here in my region it's not so common to find them. If I don't poison myself in the way, I'll let you guys know of the news xDDDDDDDD
I believe they're just fine, according to people on the Facebook page for mushroom growers...
It always makes me think you're trespassing and waiting to be caught at any moment. Since you don't have the people that actually own these places in frame with you.
Stresses me out🤣
I arpicate the details
🤑🤣
Power to the fungirl.
Did u do all the setup of the equipments or didi u hire some group of people in setting up the equipments?
People don't get too excited. 200,000$ isn't all profit. Running business requires loads of cash flow too. After all the expenses deduction she has probably left with 20,000.
Thx ,does Jewel sell ready to go bags?
I do
I wonder it you can use hemp waste
This is awesome
I don't know if anybody told you lately but you're beauful. I hope you have a wonderful night
nice inspiring ! :P
What kind of square foot
Respect!
Growing your Dreams
Hi where do I buy mushrooms spawn wholesale
what book did she use!?
What kind of degree would you recommend having to starting a mushroom business?
I dont have any I just like growing I mean knowing math might be helpful too bad I dont
I would almost say a mushroom growing class and books would be more time effective. There's a lot out there on it.
You’re gonna find a fun girl!! Just keep goin!
Jus keep gro'in
Damn that girl got a serious biceps!
Shout out to Eric Myers at Myersmushrooms.com who is the mastermind behind small commercial mushroom cultivation operations. He is still offering weekend classes and is an incredible support for follow up questions.
Thanks Tiffany. Its sad Jewell had to shut down. Sometimes making money isnt the most important thing in life.
@@MyersMushroomsFarms When did she shut down? Do you know why?
@@brendanhaney6878 yes she shut down for personal reasons
Hey John,
Where can I get in touch with you?
Eat the right fungi and they will talk back to you John
I want some of what John's chonging on...
Cleland Stephen you and me both!
LMMFAO...That's why I like Shotguns, you don't need to be so Precise! EPIC Quote of the Day! I Laughed Hard and Scared the Dog!
⚽️ Here we go, Galaxy. Here we go! ⚽️
What happens to the spent spawn? I've always wondered
It creates great compost. Gardeners will even pay you for that.
John your fucking crazy I love you man keep doing your thing bro!!!!!!!! Thx for the content
The Michael Scott of gardening
I would love to know the name of those 3 books???
its on her kit page