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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits WTF Mushroom Farm near Kelowna, BC Canada and shares with you how you can grow mushrooms and make $100k in a growing season. In this episode, John will give you a tour of WTF Mushroom farm in B.C. Canada. You will discover how they grow over a dozen varieties of mushrooms in greenhouses outdoors. You will discover how old trees can be used to grow gourmet mushrooms that can be sold for $10-$20 a pound. You will learn the entire process of growing mushrooms using the best practices to ensure success with minimal contamination. You will discover how mushrooms are being grown in inexpensive, temporary greenhouses with a shade cloth during the growing season. You will learn how many pounds of mushrooms you can produce in a portable greenhouse and how much money you can sell them for. Finally, John will interview Brian Callow, the farmer that makes $100k in just 6 months growing mushrooms during a growing season. Jump to the Following Part of this Episode: 01:00 Wood is a valuable resource 03:07 Purchase a GYG Tee Shirt to Help support me 03:44 Using Waste Woodchips to Grow Mushrooms 04:52 Using a hammer mill to reduce woodchip size 05:46 Specific Ingredients Fed to Mushrooms to increase yield 07:45 Mushrooms grow in breathable grow bags 10:06 Sterilizing of the Grow Bags to grow mushrooms 12:28 Entering the lab 13:00 Fridge full of different types of mushrooms 16:25 List of different types of mushrooms they are growing 18:10 Sterilized Bags ready for being inoculated 19:00 Clean Room 19:55 Inoculated Mushrooms starting to grow 21:30 Greenhouse Growing Mushrooms 22:30 Mushroom Grow Room 23:20 How much one room of mushrooms can grow 24:20 Contaminated Grow Bags 25:00 Reusing spent mushroom growing medium 26:50 Fresh harvested mushrooms 28:10 Interview with Brian the Mushroom Farmer 28:34 Why did you start growing mushrooms? 29:40 Is it really that easy to grow mushrooms? 30:56 How you can get different cultures of strains of mushroom spores? 32:40 How do mushrooms break down? 33:30 What benefits are the mushroom compost? 34:15 What other revenue streams do you have to increase revenue? 35:25 How you can start your own mushroom farm? 38:00 What are some of the health benefits of mushrooms? 39:40 How are cultivated mushrooms different than wild mushrooms? 41:20 Is the flavor different of wild vs cultivated mushrooms? 42:35 Any final words of wisdom 43:00 How can someone contact you to start a mushroom and grow mushrooms? After watching this episode, you will learn the entire process of growing mushrooms and how you can grow mushrooms and make $100,000 in a growing season. Referenced and Related Episodes: Fungal Dominated Compost Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nVnKMoPgl4 Millipoo Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bsHZfbPLn8 How to grow microgreens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9Q2bnQvLo Visit to the beneficial insect farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iHWyrM_3A Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Follow John on Instagram at: https://instagram.com/growingyourgreens/ Watch all 1400+ Episodes from GrowingYourGreens at https://www.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens/videos Related Links: Buy a GYG Tee Shirt and Help Me Make More Videos http://www.compassion-tees.com/ Buy My Seeds http://growingyourgreens.ecwid.com/ By My Health Eating Ebook http://www.gygbook.com/ Learn more about WTF Mushroom Farm at: https://www.wtfmushrooms.ca/ Watch WTF Mushroom Farm Videos at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYKZ6tv8d2rkGCMU_ja-b1Q Connect with WTF Mushroom Farm at: https://www.facebook.com/wtfmushrooms/

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