HOW HARD IS IT TO START A MUSHROOM FARM? our story...

[@toddwmac]

Great to stumble onto this video today, especially considering I got your excellent book just a few days ago. Your commitment to paying if forward is commendable and appreciated by many that you will never hear from. I wish we were closer so we could visit you and Addie at the market and enjoy some of the fruits of your labor. One day. Congrats and continued good luck!

[@themyceliumnetwork]

"stick with it & over time you will have success" is great advice, it took me 3 months to grow out my first wild clone / spore samples on agar with no contamination. now 4 months later I am ready to start selling cultures & may start selling fruiting blocks to home growers :) you have been very helpful in my journey Gary, Thank You and Happy New Year !!

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

Happy NEW YEAR! MUSHLOVE

[@daubinks]

share that love :) In 2012 I bought a flowhood and autoclave. I'm still dreaming of my permaculture mushroom farm.

[@zachkiss8870]

I just grew some some pretty nice trichoderma for my first grow! I’m actually pretty excited about it. I got to learn how that contaminant looks and grows early in learning process. Thanks for sharing your education

[@jamesrapkins4935]

Thank you for the HOPE Gary! Thank you for sharing your trajectory! "from little things , big things grow..." MUSH LOVE

[@Knowledge213]

Thanks for sharing your story and for the positive and encouraging words!

[@pamelawillis9714]

Thanks, Gary. Great story and I look forward to continuing to follow and learn from you.

[@SuperHectortilla]

I just set up my first two 5lb bags and I cant wait to get serious about starting a farm. Greetings from Mexico!!!!

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

Wow that’s great! ❤️🍄

[@Thebigbendfungicompany]

One of the better videos on starting a mushroom farm. It is not cheap to start a mushroom farm. I've seen videos where they say you just need a couple hundred dollars to start a mushroom farm, but I think $15,000.00 is way more accurate. Thanks!

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

Thanks! The flowhood is the heart and soul of our farm and is worth spending on 🙂🍄❤️

[@shannonwilliams7743]

Thank you kind Sir for this very thoughtful video.

[@januscastanedo]

Thanks for all your efforts to share your knowledge. God bless you!

[@terryh5677]

Great Video Gary. Happy New Year!!!

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

HAPPY NEW YEAR

[@Lulzswag]

You really are an inspiration. You talked about the person inspiring you and I just wanted to let you know that in my journey YOU have been the one that has inspired and for the most part mentored me through your videos. I REALLY want to take one of your classes but I really don't have a lot of money and what I do have has been invested in my "mycology lab" which is actually a 5.5' x 4' closet with a small 1' x 1' flow hood, a magnetic stirrer, bins and quart jars haha. It's not ideal but it's the best I can do at the moment until I can upgrade but I've really been studying your videos and I've been working on really learning to work with agar. It's SO hard to maintain a sterile environment but I'm trying my best with what I have. Anyway, I'll shut up. My fiancé and I love watching your videos and they help SO much. Mush love.

[@pilzfreak9662]

This is my new favourite channel now. Only thing I don't like is that I don't have space anywhere for a laminar flow hood :P trying it with a still air box for now, tried to clone some wild oysters I found^in MEA dishes. All contaminated with I think some kind of bacteria, but from one of these I will try to make a transfer because looks like healthy mycelium there at some places.... Hope at some point it will work^^

[@ikermb2377]

My question is, I would like to make and small groument farm, but the point is, If I have to travel four days (for example one long weekend with friends) I need someone to take care of the farm?(I am going to do alone) I would like to see the circle life doing a mushroom farm, thank you

[@CHRISTisKing197]

Interesting to hear that you were running PCR screening for contaminants. What cycle threshold were you running? Dr. Kary Mullis said if you look hard enough you'll find anything in anything and now he's rolling in his grave as they label it a test and use it to diagnose illness

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

it was real time pcr with controls and it was validated by the state for threshold cycles. I agree that you can over analyze and amplify “almost anything” targeted but with positive and negative controls in place it preserves the validity of each run. Maybe Ill do a video in the future

[@jshwanTTV]

thanks for sharing!

[@timhash2044]

Killer huntin up there found my first porcini there years ago. happy huntin

[@Joseph-v5u7w]

Still enjoying your awesome informative video's. Just curious is the Lions Mane LC supposed to be a tan color? Thanks and keep those videos coming 🙂

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

thanks for watching and following along! they are an amber color yes

[@herbalvisionz6091]

Thanks for the inspiration. I want to start a mushroom farm. You should make more videos about this. Mush love

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

My advice to anyone is start small, figure out your niche, build on that and keep growing 🙂❤️🍄 It takes a lot of failures to get it down but as long as each batch gets better, it’s a step forward

[@CHRISTisKing197]

Did you mention that you're making a book?

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

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[@gekctek]

Super video! I applauded for $2.00 👏

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

Thanks! MUSHLOVE ❤️🍄

[@ScreamSheLovesMeNot]

Just noticed this feature today?

[@ScreamSheLovesMeNot]

I was going to say 5 years from first shrooms to now is killer. But all that sterile work probably really helped. I've wanted to get into plant tissue cloning, sounds pretty similar beside maybe a hormone in the agar?

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

very similar yes, agar prep is different and it doesn’t require as much sterility as mushrooms surprisingly - I will eventually get deep into it but check out the book “plants in test tubes” it’s a great overview

[@dennisdicicco6406]

In durango doing the same

[@williamfuto5895]

Best video so far! Pay it forward, brother... greatest ending ever, feature more of your wife in the videos! Like the Canadian couple @ Fresh cap. (Your only KZbin competition) More mountains, more squirrels, more snow, and more wives... lol. Ohio loves you! Happy new year...

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

Happy New Year!

[@bigtank222g4]

It's nice to have your company and work in Colorado. Mu wife and I are looking forward to upcoming classes. Just picked up some LC from you guys. Starting plates, slants, and colonizing some grain today. Super excited. Happy New Year and Mushluv

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

awesome good luck and happy new year!

[@AaronAlso]

Trich is a bitch isn't it. I think it is the number one barrier to entry for most growers.

[@FreshfromtheFarmFungi]

It’s quite ubiquitous in nature and is definitely “the canary in the coal mine” for my lab - once I see any signs of trichoderma it’s time to do a deep deep cleaning hah

[@V1ctoria00]

All these mushroom farming giants making videos with this topic while sitting in a car. Lol