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Methods of Commercial Mushroom Cultivation in the Northeastern United States
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Methods of Commercial Cultivation in the Northeastern United States Download the Commercial Mushroom Cultivation Book Table of Contents Visit www.FungiAlly.com for additional information and resources. “This material is based upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, through the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under subaward…
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Specialty Mushroom Cultivation
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Specialty Mushroom Cultivation in the Northeast United States Download the Specialty Mushroom Cultivation PDF Table of Contents Visit www.FungiAlly.com and https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/mushrooms/ for additional information and resources. “This material is based upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, through the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under…
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Value Added Products
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Value Added Products H. Dehydrating Mushrooms Mushrooms that are poor quality, or that a grower is unable to sell, are perfect for any number of value-added products. Mushrooms make an excellent dried product, and are relatively easy to dry. Regulations for selling this product vary by state, so if not in New York, check with…
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Harvest to Market Guide Section 2: Enterprise Planning
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Developing a Viable Specialty Mushroom Enterprise. Project Team Introduction This workbook is meant to serve as a companion to our production manuals: “Best Management Practices for Log-Based Shiitake Cultivation” (2012) and “Growing Specialty Mushrooms in Controlled Environments” (2019), both of which are available as free downloads at https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/mushrooms/. While these guidebooks focus on the technical…
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Community Mushroom Educator Program
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Community Mushroom Educator Network Cultures around the world have long valued mushrooms as a vital source of nutrition and healing for centuries. Mushrooms are grown and foreages for food, medicine, and materials, and can be powerful healing elements for people and their environments. This project was initially supported with funding from USDA-SARE and USDA-AFRI, which…
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Mycology 101
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Mushroom forming fungi are a subset of the fungal kingdom that include an estimated 1.5 – 5 million species. About 20,000 species of fruiting mushrooms have been identified, of those only 200 species have been cultivated, with about 20 reaching large scale cultivation. There is plenty of room for discovery in both the field of…
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Find People (Email listserv, Consultant Listings)
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Here you can learn more about what we offer, join out grower listserv of over 700 growers, and find a list of active industry consultants to help your grow. What Our Program Offers We are a small group with several part time extension educators (Connor Youngerman, Yolanda Gonzalez) along with our project partners (FarmSchoolNYC, Fungi…
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Markets, Regulations, and Food Safety
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While many growers focus heavily on the technical aspects of production, it is the post-harvest handling and sales that counts in making for a profitable enterprise Growers can fetch a premium price for specialty mushrooms , provided they can maintain quality throughout the post-harvest process. Anyone who is serious about making money with the sale…
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Indoor Production
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Indoors: Economics of Growing Most specialty mushrooms are best cultivated in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) scenarios. In contrast to CEA systems used for greens and herbs, mushrooms can be produced in locations with minimal infrastructure and capital to start and sustain production. Mushroom production can be adapted to abandoned and underutilized farm infrastructure including barns,…
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Outdoor Production
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This page offers the basic cultivation techniques and information on the economics of log grown shiitake enterprises. While you might come across one of 10,000 fruiting mushrooms in the Eastern Forest, only a handful can be cultivated reliably. These are the decomposing fungi that can be grown on logs, stumps, woodchips, and in vegetable production…
Specialty Mushrooms
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