1000sq/ft Oyster Mushroom Farm Growing 300lbs a week! 

How's that working out?

this operation is moving into a much larger custom built from the ground up operation. Should be up and running in a year or two. Check out my newest videos for my new operation thats bigger than this one.

@@MyersMushroomsFarms so are you still farming mushrooms

biggest fault in this op is not having fruiting racks portable

This definitely ain't your backyard grow

Probably a bad investment to be honest-it’s clear there’s no real business plan or any clear path to real bottom line success.

Shane im a sales rep for Pack. Shoot me an email at Myersmushrooms@gmail.com

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Is there a drip pan under the proofer pasturizer to catch condensate?

Brenda @Goldenwood Mushrooms yes all re uploaded on this new channel

Fabulous. I messaged Jewell earlier.

Brenda @Goldenwood Mushrooms she is brads classmate for my class.

Yes, she and I video conference on some Fridays with Caitlin Hollow

Same here, even as rugged as it looks that's still a lot of money. I wonder what the electricity bill is. I'll get there one day!

Advance Disposal Inc. - Dumpster Rental yes it's just above $50k he is growing 200-300lbs of mushrooms solo and the power is not too bad. He is only running the steamer once a week and then it's just some fans and lights with a 2 ton window ac unit.

In front of the rooms on your way in

Force hepa cooldown

This is something I have been wondering myself. From what I can gather the answer would be yes. Greater yields. However the process becomes more labour intensive, therefore smaller bags can be turned over faster and with less manpower.

handling the bags at 12 lbs each is already labor intensive, yes 30 lb bags might be less proccessing but when its all manual it wears you down. European farms grow on 30+ lb plastic wrapped bales but the block production is automated.

@@MyersMushroomsFarms What about the Big growers using bottles. the largest growers here us bottles 60,000 sq feet

@@londonpaintball They use around $500k+ in automation to process those bottles.

​@@MyersMushroomsFarms Where can i get more info about how they handle the 30lbs+ bales?

I wouldn't recommend quitting your day job and diving in. Yes you can make a good living off it but it also requires infrastructure, knowledge, equipment, and most importantly a market.

Fire Marshall came in and said it needed a 20k fire suppression system coupled with neighboring tenants repeatedly complaining of substrate cooking smell leaving them to only sterilize on weekends.

1 or 2 flushes is always a good policy. Later flushes lead to disease and waste valuable space. Let me know if you want any guidance with your grow.

@@MyersMushroomsFarms hey man! Can I get some help too?

@@holyglitch1126 sure i offer consulting if you need it. hit me up on my website

Company shut down and sold off everything a few years ago sadly. If you need equipment check out my website.

@@MyersMushroomsFarms Took a look through equipment on website, am interested in some of the larger items if you can discuss different pricing with me. Not new to this :P

I wish there was an alternative to unicorn bags. The plastic waste from a mushroom operation is insane. The spent blocks can be used as fertilizer.

He composts them off site. And yes there is a lot of plastic waste sadly.

Juan Rosales There is an alternative as a matter of fact, some smaller scale growers who dont mind the extra work grow in 5 gal buckets with holes. Can pick them up for free at many fast food chain(:

Myersmushrooms@gmail.com is our email and we also have a website

Your comment got me curious so I began looking into it. According to MassFoodAndWine Brad's location was ruined just five months after this video was posted after a fire broke out going on to say "While the actual fire ... did not cause significant damage, the resulting water [from the sprinkler system] devastated the entire inventory of mushrooms, which the board of health required to be disposed of. The damage to the lab and mill space was bad enough that Brad will need to tear out his entire operations and look for a new home." I then found an article on Telegram dated August of 2019 that said "Wildwood Mushrooms ... has purchased land on T Hall Road for $30,000, and plans to build a mushroom growing facility." and "Brad Allain said he expects the facility, which will not be open to the public, to open in the spring [of 2020]." And according to LinkedIn a man is showing as a "Corporate Development Business - Advisor" for Wildwood Mushroom and has held that title since 2018 through Present day.

The mushroom farm in this video burnt down.

@@sueycuomo8673 no way really? Source?

15-19 usd per pound (~450 grams)

check out my kit site in the description I have it under LED trials.

Yea but you know they say it takes money to make money. Starting a farm of any scale is never cheap. You can be cheap with equipment and pay in labor or pay for good equipment and save in labor.

Myers Mushrooms Farms absolutely! Not a lot of $ my way so I'm trying to compensate with resource efficiency..lol

Myers Mushrooms Farms ballpark: how much does that setup cost?

@@rossh8293 Im wondering the same thing. I suppose if you do a little market research in the area you plan to cover, you might be able to figure it out. Unless you are talk straight tools and hardware .

This whole setup is around 50k thats including the rent during buildup, and all equipment, electrical, plumbing. The batch mixer alone was $12k.

An estimation, if he sells for $10/lb that is about $3000 a week. However, have to factor in warehouse rent (in this case, maybe 1-2K a month), utilities (maybe another 1-2K a month), supply expenses (bags, substrate, spawn, etc), labor (how much is your time worth?), taxes (the government wants their cut), pay for workers if you have any (let's face it, you're not going to want to work seven days a week every week for the rest of your life), insurance if you have workers, insurance for the grow (crap happens), transportation (if you deliver as well as transport needed to bring supplies in), loss (product you can't or don't sell, product that doesn't grow), etc etc. You also have to worry about unexpected loss such as a massive infestation of a pest that might ruin an entire month or two while you deal with it and recover) Maybe 4-8K net a month with this setup if you maximize growth and sales with minimal waste, but it can vary. This is an estimation. With my planned setup, I might net $1k a month but I plan to do my setup mostly to learn. Any profit will be a bonus.

That's how I started. Then I bought so I could make some more permanent upgrades like electricity and HVAC. I now have 3000 sq ft in the back yard for growing mushrooms.

@@MyersMushroomsFarms too old to be doing this now plus have Parkinsons, got some Freeloaders in our family try to get them to do stuff like Mushrooms microgreens Kratom but they are too lazy one that does work rather work Flipping Burgers at 40 instead of doing this grew up on a small family farm still have 35 acres wish I would had known about this 50 years ago

His business closed due to a fire, not sure if he had insurance or ever reopened.

@@liamgilmore1604 nice!

@@liamgilmore1604 How much space do I need for mushrooms?

@@DraGon-cg6ge you can start with a small tote or a full-on warehouse! learn on a small scale, learn about the business side of things, line up some cash through savings/loan/investment, so what makes sense for you!

@@liamgilmore1604 I want to grow in logs

It's an ok income, but after expenses I presume it to be fairly low (I probably make more at my day job which isn't even full-time lol). To make it work you would have to sell a lot of retail. With the right local marketing, you could build a following of customers paying retail. During downtime, with that mixer, you could probably sell blocks too. If you find the right farmer(s)/gardener(s)/marketing you could sell all your spent blocks for composting. If you automate things enough and have a good workflow layout, you can reduce the number of hours needed to run the operation. I plan to begin some small-scale shiitake growing just to learn and see what kind of market is in my area. I'm just going to use a space 16x16 room I have and see what I can get out of it. I have a lot of free time at the moment so might as well try to turn it into some money. My big problem is finding customers. Not many high-end restaurants within 50 miles of me. Driving a hundred miles to deliver ten pounds of mushrooms isn't profitable. I'm not going the industrial route like in this video, I'm just going to go cheap and primitive and not sacrifice end-product quality.

@@NotSoCrazyNinja that would be an interesting journey indeed, wish you the best of luck. I was pondering doing the same.

@@PoulJulle-wb9iu If you keep initial expenses low and opt for more labor, you can get a better idea if it is something you want to do. For example, the substrate. You "could" get literal tons of the core ingredients trucked to you for pretty cheap per pound, but, if you're just starting out, might be better to go to a feed store, farm store, or similar and just pay a little extra for smaller bags of it. Instead of spending a grand or few on a mixer, a stock watering container or other large container with a spade/shovel/hoe would work too. For a sterilizer, I plan to build my own out of mostly wood (probably cypress based on what is available and not too expensive in my area) and use electric water heating element(s) with a controller and float. For "bags", I have a crazy idea I want to try. If it works, I might can do away with disposable bags and just have to do a little more sterilizing. I estimate I can get away with a new startup for a couple hundred or so dollars. Then just work it in my free time and see what I get. Initial stages I'll probably just give away the mushrooms to people I know while I learn how best to grow them and get a better idea on timing. Once things are settled and if I want to keep doing it, then I'll begin trying to sell them. Based on the laws in my state, so long as I sell them "whole" and "fresh", there's no licensing I have to worry about if I keep sales within my state. Just have to worry about sales taxes.

@@NotSoCrazyNinja whats your crazy idea for bags, im interested to do exactly what you've just written about.bthere are many products to be created from mushrooms apart from the sale of them raw form. canned/pickled mushrooms are great. dips, soups, and even meat replacement. The beef steak mushroom could probably make alternate protein powder, building materials, etc. There is so much opportunity, I love this subject and its cool others are on the same path

This isnt Europe or the Netherlands. He is selling the product at farmers markets for $20 a lb and to chefs for $10-12, so more than double what your getting. The setup is designed to use minimal space and produce maximum yield. If your setup is so much better please share...