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Steve Gabriel, author of Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests, joins me to talk about his experience cultivating mushrooms and medicinals for his farm, Wellspring Forest Farm.

In this episode we discuss the details of shiitake production and farming the woods in general. Enjoy!

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If you're interested in starting your own Shiitake Farm, make sure to check out our page on How to Start a Mushroom Farm.

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Wellspring Farm

Farming the Woods - An Integrative Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests

Cornell Small Farms Program

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Joe Krawczyk, founder of Field and Forest Products, joins me today to teach us how to go about starting a shiitake mushroom operation. Joe started Field and Forest Products 33 years ago and specializes in selling mushroom spawn, primarily Shiitake, to commercial and hobby mushroom growers.

In this episode we discuss the details of how to produce shiitake mushrooms for sale directly to the consumer. Enjoy!

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If you're interested in starting your own mushroom farm, you have come to the right place. This page will teach you the following:

• The Product
• The Customers
• Basic Startup Costs
• Tools Needed
• Production Methods
• Challenges in the operation
• Sources
• Resources to Learn More

The Product - Fresh Shiitake

There are other mushrooms you can grow and sell, but the primary market is for Fresh Shiitake. For the sake of keeping things simple on this page, we're going to focus on Fresh Shiitake. So you know, the other fresh mushrooms are: Maitake, Oyster, and Reishi.

• Wholesale Price - $10 - 12/Pound
• Retail Price - $12 - 16/Pound

The Customers

These customers are your standard small farm customers. Nothing new here. Restaurants are always ideal because they will often pay top dollar for the product and will buy in significant quantities. Farmer's Markets are good if you already have other products to sell there. CSA's are great, again, if you already have other products to sell....

Welcome to the first episode. As a note. Just like any new endeavor in a business, I like to frame things as experiments. This podcast is very much an experiment to see if it is something valuable, worthwhile, and generally fun to produce. I am going to do 100 of these and after that, make an assessment as to whether or not I will continue with them.

Here's the first episode. Enjoy!

Ep. 1 - Welcome to the Small Farm Academy Podcast

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