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mushroom growing room designs
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,... Read more...
New subtitles added to our online mushroom course
New subtitles added to our online mushroom course
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... Read more...
10 things to watch when you are building your urban mushroom farm
10 things to watch when you are building your urban mushroom farm
We have only just begon, a famous phrase by Gunter Pauli in his legendary book, The Blue Economy. Which inspired us to start farm mushrooms. Last week we started the... Read more...
How to start profitable mushroom farming on a budget
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?"... Read more...
How we build our mushroom farming business plan
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... Read more...
How to choose your mushroom cultivation method
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... Read more...
How to make a basket for straw pasteurisation
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.... Read more...
Perforated bags for mushroom cultivation
Perforated bags for mushroom cultivation
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... Read more...
The advantages of an online mushroom course
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 were running the course on a WordPress site with a... Read more...
How to start a mushroom farm
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,... Read more...
Our mushroom substrate recipes
Our mushroom substrate recipes
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... Read more...
How to make a basket for straw pasteurisation
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.... Read more...
The impact on the environment of a small urban mushroom farm
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... Read more...
The most important price argument for fresh mushrooms
The most important price argument for fresh mushrooms
We have been playing with the thought of doing a blog about this topic for a long time and we have been postponing it. Until today. The idea first came to... Read more...
The mushroom life cycle on your farm
The mushroom life cycle on your farm
You can find a lot of information about the mushroom life cycle on the internet. But we find that within this images, there are some parts missing. That's we we have redone the... Read more...
The Ultimate Urban Mushroom Farm part 1
The Ultimate Urban Mushroom Farm part 1
Not much to say as this post is mostly video. We are building the Ultimate Urban Mushroom Farm and we are sharing the entire build with you. In this first video,... Read more...
Preventing contamination in mushroom cultivation
Preventing contamination in mushroom cultivation
Contamination, the most common threat to the both the beginning and the most experience mushroom grower. Across all our platforms it's the question we get the most. How can I... Read more...
The 5 different mushroom farm types
The 5 different mushroom farm types
Before you dive into this post, we highly recommend reading our blog on how to start a mushroom farm. We have done a post on this in the not so long... Read more...
Urban mushroom cultivation and the climate emergency
Urban mushroom cultivation and the climate emergency
It has been a while since we posted a blog. But last week the European Parliament declared the climate emergency and although we typically will not refer to this institution, this time... Read more...
Changing your farm and website simultaneously
Changing your farm and website simultaneously
We started farming at the beginning of 2013. Although experimenting is a better word to describe what we were doing back then. There was hardly any knowledge available on small-scale... Read more...
mushroom substrate preparation set up
mushroom substrate preparation set up
These days it is fairly easy to put into action your Do It Yourself solution for the mixing of your substrate and the filling of the tubes. All you need... Read more...