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I’d love to see more small scale mushrooms farmers out there bringing top quality mushrooms to their local area.īut I’m aware it can feel a bit overwhelming with lots to learn. If you take a tray of beautiful freshly harvested mushrooms to the best restaurants, farmers markets and food outlets in your local area, you’re likely to see them snapped up pretty fast.ģ different varieties of Oyster mushrooms being trimmed ready for sale How To Start Your Own Mini Mushroom Farm In 5 Steps Mushrooms are normally grown in huge factory-like farms and travel long distances to reach the end consumer.Īnd being the fresh and fragile things that they are, they don’t travel well. The thing about small-scale local mushroom growing is that your mushrooms will be so much better than what’s likely to already be available in your local area. Learning how to grow mushrooms is more straightforward than you might think, read my complete guide of How To Grow Mushrooms. I’ll also point you in the direction of how to get started if it interests you. If not, let me tell you a bit about it, and why I’m such a fan of growing them. Not just that – you probably also know that you need to grow a lot of produce, have good growing skills AND access to land.īut do you also know that you can grow a lot of high-value mushrooms in un-used spaces, and that it can be quite quick to learn? You probably already know that growing food can be a hard way to earn money and that it’s labour intensive. Then chances are you already know a bit about growing food on a small scale. You could make a part time income from it, or run it as a community food project. You don’t need access to land, and chances are that no one else in your area is already doing it.

Imagine being able to grow lots of high-value local food, in an easy and reliable way.