What Does It Really Cost to Setup a Mushroom Farm?

How much does it cost to setup a mushroom farm? That is a question a lot of people ask! Mushroom farming or growing mushrooms for profit is a challenging and exciting business which you can earn a living off. In this video we dive into some of the costs involved with getting setup.

This is by no means exhaustive, but give you a good foundation for all the items and costs involved with starting a basic mushroom farm which can produce you around 30kg of fresh sell-able mushrooms per week.

We look at the costs of the fruiting chamber, which involves humidifier, LED lighting, shelving, and ventilation.

The lab, which involved a laminar flow hood, All American autoclave, impulse sealer, and a few other bits and pieces needed.

The incubation room which covers air conditioning and shelving.

Substrate preparation, which covers substrate bagging and sterilizing.

Post harvest which covers storing your crop.

And finally cost of good sold, how much each block is going to cost you to make.

Some equipment listed below!
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Want to know how much money you can make farming mushrooms?

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Fruiting Chamber

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Mushroom Lab

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Incubation Room

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Want to try growing mushrooms? Start with this mushroom growing kit!

The following literature is great to learn how to grow mushrooms

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to see a full list of equipment I use!

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[OakandSpore]

Interested in how much profit a mushroom farm makes? Check out my upcoming course here!

[JohnGeorge-pwxo]

Mushrooms did wonders in my life. I suffered severe anxiety and mental disorder years ago as a teenage. Got diagnosed with OCD. Spent my whole life fighting OCD. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

[constant_evolution_genetic]

This is a very nice set up! The right way! I was doing 35-50kg per week in my small basement for under 750 bucks, had to stop due to family issues but you can most deffinetly do this for a budget, home made flowhood for 50$, know it sounds too good to be real but I had 14 restaurants and 4 different farmers markets I supplied, us did a lot off business on etsy for extracts and dried product, was selling about 25-35kg per week on average but produced 40-50kg just incase, it's my true passion and learned all my work from mossy creek mushroom, one day I will be growing again, Mush love yall!

[spamham]

I love that he’s super honest about all the costs. I feel like he didn’t try and hide anything or cut corners. Thank you

This actually didn't seem too costly and rather easy to get started. Usually I watch something and I'm just like - depression - hopelessness - mystery. This was really well done and very informative.

[OakandSpore]

ATTENTION: As mentioned by user Jaeson Barnard, these costs are to setup an operation that can grow 30-100kgs per week. If you just want to grow some mushrooms for your dinner plate, it can be done very cheaply! around $50 and some time and you'll have yourself a delicious feed of mushrooms.

[themyceliumnetwork]

$3, 000 CAD so far for me & I still need to buy a good flow hood & a stool to sit at my work bench.
Awesome video !!

[sunriseboy]

Probably the best presentation 'ever' on YT. No bullshit...LOL...and no 'music?!!! Played a straight bat on every cost, and requirement.
Outstanding presentation.
Thank you. I'm just getting to the cusp of starting up.

[jacksmith]

This is a fantastic video Oak and Spore Mushroom Farm! I've been doing my research for a about a month after attracting my curiousity to mushrooms and running a viable business. I'm obsessed with learning everything I can from your videos. You're very detailed and articulate. You spend the time each and every video to give the viewer the behind-the-scenes look at building, cost analysis and alternative ways of set up & production.
Great job mate, keep up the hard work 👍🏼
Could you provide a link I can donate to, to support more of your content ?

[rtbkbulliesandpitbulls]

That's a very realistic break down. Good job on that video

[ilovehelpu]

concise, competent, & well edited. What a gem of a video brother, keep up the good work.

[k]

Love the big island reference and the knife hand. Sharper then some I have seen in service dude!

[nuklhed]

This is great. Thankyou for laying it out so clearly.

[dylanalliata]

Thank you for reminding me what I love about Kiwis thorough, practical, self-reliant and handy. This investment for a small 'farm' is very modest. Add a marketing plan and you have a business Very well done. I used to live around Christchurch long ago. Loved the place and people,

[jamiroquaiordie]

Bro, been watching like 5 of your videos.. thanks for showing us a part of the business that i couldn't find elsewhere.. i've been thinking of running a little mushroom farm and all of this information is really valuable, though i'm all over the sea, whatching from Argentina.. it's still really usefull to see how you made so many things from scratch, that's something that we have to do in many cases because of the economic crisis, buying even locally can be expensive af, so really thank you!!

[Mrsnufleupagus]

I run a market garden in Western Canada and have been thinking about adding mushrooms to our skill set. I must say I appreciate your honesty in this video. So many videos titled How much to start a market garden....are misleading and dishonest, I worry about people believing it costs next to nothing to set up infrastructure. You kept it real and the doubling at then end is a very fair statement!

[LuckyJim]

What a champ you are for running through this for all of us freeloaders! You must be a really fun eh?😃😃😃

[sarasteuck]

You’re a total legend you are!
Just stumbled across two of your videos and will suss out a few more!
Top Blocke! Greetings from Cairns x

[goldengriffon]

Very informative. I'm intrigued, but it seems the hardest part of the business (for me and my personality, at least) would be trying to find buyers and dealing with any food-related regulations.

[edu.]

me: oh 1500 dollars i can do that
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