Growing Mushrooms in California | A Visit to Four Mushroom Farms | Cultivation Techniques

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In early 2022 a team from North Spore visited four mushroom farms in California to learn new techniques for mushroom cultivation and to see automation equipment at Far West Fungi. We made this video to document our trip. Hope you enjoy it!
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Special thanks to Far West Fungi, Mycopia, Monterey Mushrooms, and Global Mushrooms.
Far West Fungi: farwestfungi.com/
Mycopia: www.mycopia.com/
Monterey Mushrooms: www.montereymushrooms.com/
Global Mushrooms: www.globalmush.com/
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[@JamesTaylor-ff4dp]

Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.

[@pk1448]

What is the difference in growing? I am really intrigued; it seems so hard and a lot of work. Back in the day P mushrooms grew wild at the beach and of course we used them for getting high not medical. Very curious at 68!

[@MrEiht]

Europe needs something like this. I want to operate a farm big as this. Just to make sure people COULD buy healthy, inexpensive food - if they want to.

[@drmicelio7488]

Spain, Portugal, Poland, Italy...all full of these kind of set ups and much bigger :)

[@Loneriver22]

Interesting statement adding that reducing the carbohydrate ratio in substrate reduces the prone to contamination factor.

[@lenzp4133]

absolutely insane what you got there in the us.. here in germany people are very antiquated about almost everything. i dont know of any mushroom farm in my city, and we have about 150k ppl here. i´m growing in my basement, hopeful to enlighten all those filthy peasants one day and building up a company. seeing this gives me a good push in motivation, thanks.

[@JustReckles5]

Lmao love the comment, I love your passion for mushrooms, best of luck my friend!

[@theecstatic9686]

Sounds like an untapped market...

[@MrEiht]

The mushroom people in Germany are just scary. "I refuse to learn" is the attitude, because they already know it all...they seem to think. Ask them about the CO2 in their tents and they get angry. Because...why would that matter, they ask. Soon I will harvest my very first Lion's Mane flush, maybe a kilo. I work 24/7 and next year I drop tons. In Germany. No one needs Alzheimer and everyone loves brain cells.

[@MrEiht]

@@theecstatic9686 it is pathetic what "we"got here. 365 days a year button mushrooms, dried varieties and deep frozen buttons. That is what you get in a German super market. Maybe some oysters on a good day. Any market in any asian country has more to offer. Daily.

[@DONDONDON865]

Same man will start a company in the east with my friend too!:)

[@VinegarAndSaltedFries]

3rd Farm is awesome. Love seeing The reusable bottles rather than the plastic bags. Really cool he’s growing Hypsizygus aswell. Love Beech Mushrooms.

[@NorthSpore]

Mycopia is a real leader in bottle cultivation here in the US

[@JeanFrancoisLampron]

yah i agree,so much plastic wasted in the first one.

[@irishnorskymadness]

Thank you for sharing all of this incredible production information. North Spore, y'all rock!

[@ginninadances]

Impressive to see all the different ways of doing things!

[@1civilized323]

Inspiring to see these processes. Seems like there is quite the passion involved.

[@NorthSpore]

Indeed. Most of the facilities we visited have been around for multiple generations. there is a thriving mushroom agriculture scene happening in California!

[@kylegati725]

Love seeing the collaboration and openness to share and learn from eachother. Fits right in with the NS approach. This video answered a lot of my curious questions that come up during home mushroom cultivation, like “how is X done at scale?” Thanks for sharing!

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for watching! I'm glad the video was helpful to you.

[@umkmmudamandiri]

That was fun informative

[@OFF-GRIDPhenohunt]

Awesome episode !

[@NorthSpore]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@KellyH6312]

That was fun! Informative

[@NorthSpore]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@reneemarie3164]

Great video! Really informative and interesting!

[@NorthSpore]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sandragarner3913]

This was so informative

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for watching!

[@AnxiousStacker]

Awesome tours. Id love to get in on the ground floor of a biz like this. Been growing gourmets for a while but VERY small scale just for myself

[@NorthSpore]

Visiting mushroom farms is a great way of expanding your knowledge and taking your growing to the next level!

[@thehydrosource]

Yeah really great video.

[@NorthSpore]

thanks for watching!

[@jerodyoumans6002]

Great models to aspire towards.

[@NorthSpore]

They are!

[@mvpcilo2268]

Been shopping with you guys for about 2 years. LOVE THE QUALITY AND PRICES

[@NorthSpore]

Thank you!!!

[@MustHavesbyDawnlarae]

❤love the community. So interesting and excited to try. 🍄 #northspore #mushrooms #recylce #nam #gardening #love #spores

[@jackcullen8531]

Very cool video (well produced as well)

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for watching it!

[@DrDiaz-nl1dw]

Amazing.

[@NorthSpore]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@northernlights176]

This is dope

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for watching the video

[@growthefunguy4106]

Just wow 🎉

[@NorthSpore]

thanks for watching!

[@seloded]

Good work! Тоже люблю выращивать грибы.

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks!

[@BrochMan6]

I didn't realize how many nearby mushroom farms there were

[@tyreeballard]

Inspired

[@NorthSpore]

thanks for watching!

[@Jafrmi96]

Just started seeing Mycopia in Michigan at the place I grocery shop. Tried both clamshell varieties and the trumpet Royale, nice mushrooms and they must have a place in Michigan because it says they were grown here. Haven't heard of the other companies before

[@NorthSpore]

When we used to deal in foraged and cultivated mushrooms we distributed Mycopia mushrooms around New England. Mycopia has two facilities, one in California and one in Michigan. They are some of the highest quality mushrooms available in the country. nice that you have them available to you!

[@cosonamngocbinhan]

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[@edwarddarst8330]

You guys are awesome keep up the good work😊 how much do you sell box mixed mushrooms

[@NorthSpore]

Unfortunately, we don't sell fresh mushrooms anymore. Check out what we do sell here (look at our Spry & Grow Kits): northspore.com/

[@vidaripollen]

U should show ur creativity by finding non plastic bags

[@Mor4me]

Dude…. 831 for the win

[@user-ew4xy3wy8n]

Nice mushroom and i'm mushroom workars

[@MrHelidude]

Please may I ask, why are mask always worn in the mushrooms processing plants.?

[@cortholiopezorama8879]

Spores.

[@gidget8717]

Does anyone in the US grow morels? How about globally? If not, why not?

[@NorthSpore]

morels are famously difficult to cultivate commercially. There is a relatively successful project happening in Denmark (look up The Danish Morel Project) and another one happening somewhere in France. If you're not too concerned about yields, people have had limited success using morel spawn in outdoor beds using a variety of techniques

[@thehydrosource]

Any idea how they keep the trumpet mushrooms from pinning on the sides of the bottles?

[@NorthSpore]

I imagine the bottles are so packed with substrate that there isn't room for them to pin off of the sides. I've haven't seen that phenomenon with king trumpets, though find it's very common with other oyster species

[@gotsim9178]

Hi .. very nice video thx ! Do you know the type of light / color spectrum they use for the King Trumpet in the last farm ?

[@NorthSpore]

Mushrooms like light around 6500 kelvin.

[@gotsim9178]

@@NorthSpore Thank you !

[@texaspowerman]

What do these places do with all the old mycelium and the materials it was growing on? Is it useful for anything, do the use it to spawn more bags of it’s it just cheep fill dirt by the time the mycelium is done with it?

[@NorthSpore]

It can make fantastic compost!

[@fernandoporceldeperalta6419]

minuto 16:35. la señora barriendo en plena sala de fructificacion solo me hizo pensar en mi mama retandome por barrer en su casa, por el simple hecho de que al barrer echas a volar todas las particulas que hay en el suelo y se depositan arriba de los muebles. TIP, limpien con un trapo humedo!!! SIN ESCOBA.

[@NorthSpore]

verdad! lo mejor limpien con un trapo humedo

[@loops1316]

Does anyone know about chicken fat mushrooms? I have an abudance of them growing out front along side what I am presuming to be turkey tail? I hear turkeytail is not for consumption but for chicken fat I hear mixed.

[@NorthSpore]

Suillus americanus, yes. I've never tried it, but I have talked to folks that like to powder it for use as a seasoning.

[@pauloantunes8826]

wow my experience with maitake is that it takes 8 to 10 weeks incubating and H. tessulatus takes way less than 3 months. Can he be rong? 🤔

[@NorthSpore]

Our experience is that to do it well, it does take more like 8-12 weeks, similar to maitake. Too often, we would open the beech bags and they would just sit there. More incubation was required.

[@pauloantunes8826]

@@NorthSpore thank you, I am in China visiting a lot of mushroom farms and they also confirmed. H. Tessellatus takes 3 months in incubation

[@damionfragoso2655]

I wish the American mushroom cultivation industry would move away from bags. It is just so ironic that we cultivate mushrooms to have environmentally friendly food then we are using tons of plastic bags.

[@TL-skatan10]

Just like with the cannabis industry, I don't understand why you would want to take something you enjoy and turn it into a factory job.

[@NorthSpore]

depends whether you want to make a living from it or not. the reality is that micro-scale mushroom farming is unlikely to pay your bills, medical benefits, or provide a living wage for employees on its own. cannabis is a much higher value crop with much better margins when compared to edible mushrooms. As prices of cannabis fall and that margin continues to become slimmer, the focus shifting to more efficient production makes sense economically. I do agree that hobbies are best left as hobbies if you don't want to spoil your fun with business considerations! Integrating mushrooms with other crops can help keep your grow small and less like a factory job