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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We did the first video on how to make perforated bags for mushroom cultivation on May second in 2016. A lot has changed since then. Our farm has grown, we do a lot more substrate. That means, we need a lot more substrate bags. We believe in DIY, so we created our own device. Finally we found a...

In August 2019 we asked a simple question. What piece of information, insight or knowledge about growing mushrooms, is valuable for you? We asked because we wanted to up our game in sharing relevant content with you. 

In the first two months of 2020 almost 300 people have...