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Growing Mushrooms Indoors for Business and Pleasure by Udemy
Learn to grow Oyster and Lion's Mane Mushrooms in small spaces - for Beginner Home Growers and Farming Entrepreneurs
Course Highlights
- How to grow Oyster and Lions Mane mushrooms indoors using basic equipment
- What mushrooms are, what they need and how they grow
- How to turn a liquid culture or spore syringe to mushrooms - through making grain spawn, colonising substrate and fruiting mushrooms
- What to think about if you want to scale up from home growing to a mushroom-farming business
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
5 Topics
The Magic of Mushrooms
Key Terminology
The Life Cycle of Mushrooms
Concepts for Indoor Growing
End of Section Quiz
1 Topic
Quick Start - Using a Kit
2 Topics
Colonisation
Fruiting
3 Topics
Equipment
Creating a Clean Environment
Choosing a Substrate
8 Topics
Introduction to Colonising Substrate
Growing with Straw
Growing with Straw Pellets
Growing with Paper Pellets (Cold Pasteurisation Technique)
Growing in Other Containers (Bags Bottles and Yoghurt Pots)
Sterilising Substrate (Supplemented Hardwood Sawdust)
Inoculating Sterilised Substrate
Colonisation
2 Topics
Fruiting Colonised Substrate
My Story - Fruiting Chamber Options
3 Topics
Harvesting Storing and Drying Mushrooms
Soaking for a Second 'Flush'
Cooking Your Mushrooms
3 Topics
Why Lions Mane?
Growing Lion's Mane
Harvesting and Cooking Lion's Mane
1 Topic
Keeping Clean - and Dealing with Contamination
5 Topics
Introduction to Making Grain Spawn
Equipment for Grain Spawn
Choosing a Grain
Preparing and Sterilising Grain Spawn
Inoculating and Colonising Grain Spawn
14 Topics
Thinking About Making the Leap
Meet James at the Mushroom Farm
Finding and Adapting a Grow Space
Logistics and Startup Costs
Market Research
Routes to Market and Pricing
Which Mushrooms to Grow
Storage and Shelf Life
Conditions in a Scaled-Up Fruiting Chamber
Conditions in the Incubator and Laboratory
Extra Equipment (Making Scaling Up Easier!)
Mushroom Business Sanitation
Running a Sustainable Mushroom Business
Other Business Opportunities - Dried Mushrooms Liquid Cultures and Kits
1 Topic
Bonus Video
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