Top 10 Business Mistakes That Mushroom Growers Make | GroCycle

Growing MUSHROOMS for a living is an ambition for many of us!

In this video we share the Top 10 business mistakes that we see mushroom growers make, and our tips on how to avoid them.
#mushrooms, #growmushrooms, #businesstips #mushroombusiness

These tips are also perfect for a business growing #microgreens!

At GroCycle, we’ve been growing mushrooms for more than 13 years, and we now run a thriving business making and selling thousands of mushroom kits, as well as running our online course that helps people all around the world to set up and run small scale mushroom farms.

01:34 1) Overcomplicating Things
03:15 2) No Vision or Plan
04:44 3) Not Having Any Goals or Targets
06:04 4) Not Using Systems
07:55 5) Keeping Poor Data and Records
08:55 6) Poor Time Management
12:00 7) Not Focussing on Marketing
14:22 8) Being Overly Optimistic
16:21 9) Giving Up Too Soon
17:53 10) Not Investing in Yourself
19:13 A Special Offer…

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This gives you lifetime access to more than 100 step-by-step lessons, where YOU can learn everything you need to know about how to plan, build and operate your own small scale mushroom farm.

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At GroCycle, we grow mushrooms the Low Tech way, and it's a great way to grow mushrooms with minimal energy use. We've put together an hour long, FREE workshop that covers all aspects of Low Tech mushroom farming:

[noahjackson]

I'm also so grateful to be considered part of your community. Thanks for all your do, the help, and inspiration!!

[TheHelion]

Holy moly, I am planning on starting mushroom growing for a month now, just ordered my first liquid cultures. And now I find your channel!
Its a sign I tell you.

[TheNorthwestForager]

This is absolute YouTube Gold 🥇
Thank you for such invaluable information!

[t.h.o.r.]

Another wonderful video- You put so much back into the mycology community Thanks guys.

[Yoggoth]

10:55 WOW! Never expected to see a velomobile other than on a velomobile channel! Wow!

[S-Fish-ytib]

Just Brilliant, I do realise how much work it is going to be my angels said be brave and patient. To find you on youtube is great and I am sure I will be visiting your website for more morsels of info. The construction of anything is second nature for me Brickwork & woodwork, electrics & electronics, welding & ducting, fan systems & clean access to lab, but the QR scanning of the bags, deliveries documented, spreadsheets ( Did learn Excel yrs ago ) is where I will need bodies. KISStupid, and also
Proper preparation & planning prevents p*ss poor performance. Glad I have found you two leg-ends, just have to leave the UK 1st. Yeah tonnes of work but Hey Ho doing nothing else that interesting, and have time I
Thanks for your Clip on starting a business, VERY GOOD ADVICE. xxx

[benzinger]

Thank you so much, Adam and Eric, for your insights... I never regretted to have joined your Online-course. It was extremely helpful and a perfect start in the mushroom dimension and when I am stuck, I come thankfully back to it, knowing too, that there will be help from your very friendly fb group. It's easy to get lost with all the different challenges, as the importance of marketing, define goals and targets, something I don't like. And to monitor costs and time. Thank you again, back to reality...

[rebeccajohnson]

Love these kits! Good for kids at school as well.

[mybootscamewithoutstraps]

You guys really have me wanting to turn my unused unfinished basement into a grow facility. I lvoe growign and this would be an amazing thing to get into

[jamesbailey]

Great simple video;

I respect your work, I look forward to seeing more of your content as I grow my Urban Farm

[ThankGood]

Thank you guys. Ive just started your online courses and am enjoying them.

[francoissparks]

Such a good video. Lots to think about before you start.

[joshuaren]

Does your course also have tips on marketing, finance help and other things like this? I am a microbiologist by trade so business related things aren't my strong point and really need help learning what to do when it comes to finance management and taxes etc, thankyou 🙏

[kendragonman]

Hello, absolutely brilliant videos. You have posted a question and answer one in the past. I’d like to ask, can you take the spent substrate with the wonderful mycelium growth add fresh substrate and grow another batch of mushrooms??? Many thx Ken

[RicardoLeonardoAugusto]

Hi! Great Video!
What software do you use for the workflows and checklists?

[canadiananon]

I work for the lunatic(myself)!😂🤙 Great video!👍

[vhmccray]

I think of all the places I've seen to get info about growing mushrooms, you guys are the best. I appreciate your straight forward working man's approach. I consider mushrooms to be a simple low tech food source. So what better than a low tech way to produce it. I'm looking forward to taking your course to see if I can generate some income here in Minnesota, USA. Keep up the good work!

[dapurjanna]

i love this video, lots of reminder before i got starter, i want to grow mushroom long timeago never had a change to started. and now i started to learn from zero, and saw this video very usefull.. thank you

[bengriggs]

What software are you using at 7.38 to build your procedures please?

[MrPinkman]

how do u pasturize your straw and compost