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There is a lot to talk about in the world of mushrooms. This blog is dedicated to help small scale urban mushroom farmers grow a profitable business. The topics we cover vary from DIY mushroom perforating bag machine to complete farm set up and the marketing communication aspects of modern urban mushroom farming.

mushroom growing room designs

Creating the optimum conditions for mushroom cultivation are a challenge. The team of rotterzwam presents its latest innovation. Our climate wall makes finishing your mushroom growing room designs a piece of cake.

Back in 2014, we published an open-source design for...

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New subtitles added to our online mushroom course

mushroom online course Aug 17, 2021

During the summer months, we have been working with our network to make our online mushroom training more accessible. We did this by adding two more languages to our already extensive database of foreign languages.

Module 0, the training for the beginning urban mushroom farmer is given in English...

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How to start profitable mushroom farming on a budget

The question we are asked the most is. "How much money do you need to start a mushroom farm?" The question behind the questions is: "How to start profitable mushroom farming on a budget?"

We have been struggling for years to find the answer, but we think we finally can give it...

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The Mushroom Learning Network Community

I'm not a digital oriented person. I can clearly remember when Google launched maps and I was thinking: "Who needs a digital map?" How wrong I was.....

I joined Facebook even before I started rotterzwam. I was on it only for business reasons. I saw the potential in that platform...

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How we build our mushroom farming business plan

Profitable mushroom farming in an urban environment requires a different approach to farming. Let's talk about our mushroom farming business plan and let me take you on a trip in how we, since the beginning of 2013, gradually build a system of multiple cash flows...

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How to choose your mushroom cultivation method

Profitable mushroom farming was what we wanted to do when we started cultivating mushrooms in 2013. But we were not knowledgeable about the subject. I have eaten mushrooms but that was about it. ;-)

When we started our mushroom farm, we began with oak logs but abandoned that cultivation method...

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How to start a mushroom farm

After working 15 years in financial services, most of the time at insurance companies, I decided it was time for a change. I no longer felt connected with that branch, the way it treats its employees and its customers. I wanted to change my occupation and do something with sustainability. But I...

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The advantages of an online mushroom course

It was december 2018, when we had to move module 1 of our online mushroom course from our previous platform. We where running the course on a Wordpress site with a membership plugin based on WishList Member™. For some reason the site got hacked and our customers could not log in.

We...

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The impact on the environment of a small urban mushroom farm

Your impact matters! Why? Allow me to explain.

Thanks to the policy of the national Dutch government, traditional agriculture has only one knob to turn. That is scale. If prices fall, and with that the income of the farmer, the solution for the farmer is to produce more to compensate for the...

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How to make a basket for straw pasteurisation

The corona measurements are having an effect all over the world. And although our urban mushroom farm is resilient to shocks, we had to adjust to the reality around us. One of those things was the sudden decline in coffee grounds. 

As you might know, our urban farm grows oyster mushrooms on...

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