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...
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 extensive database of ...
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 build of our new mushroom farm...
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 ...
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...
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. ;...
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...
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 do a lot more substrate. That means, we n...
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 membership plugin based on WishLi...
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 employ...
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 in sharing releva...
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...
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 tha...
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 mind when my co-founder Mark Slegers ment...
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 most commonly found...