Academy

The mushroom Academy for SMEs

The Mushroom Academy for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises is a comprehensive platform designed to teach you everything you need to know about cultivating mushrooms using urban waste streams and developing a profitable business model.

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Shorten your learning curve

When you are walking the learning by doing route, you are losing time and money. Are you going to experiment and not make any revenue in the interim?

Theory & Practice

We share the theoretical part and then let you apply that the same day. That way you have experienced all proceedings and the knowledge is guaranteed to stick.

Small groups

The maximum size of the groups is 6 entrepreneurs. This way everybody gets enough attention to ask their questions.

Key learning outcomes

There is so much information that we share, that we cannot list it all here. But below you find the key learning outcomes of our Mushroom Master program.

Construction and Design

Access to farm floor plans
Access to multiple construction drawings
How to ideally construct your mushroom farm
How to construct growing rooms with off-the-shelf components

Operations and Maintenance

How to prepare different kinds of substrate both manually and automatically
How to properly and effectively clean your farm
How to harvest, package, and store conforming to product and legal requirements
Oversee the complete in- and outbound logistical challenges
Understanding how to scale the different production methods

Business and Compliance

Access to licensed earning models
Access to open-source earning models
Knowing how to construct a healthy business model
Knowing where to look to meet [local] legal requirements

Knowledge and Best Practices

Being able to reproduce the hooks to which you place your sustainable story
Insight into which costly mistakes to avoid
Know to recognize, prevent, and combat green mould
Knowing when to apply which production method
Understanding the complete mushroom biology

BONUS

• Full access to our E-learning program

• Access to the alumni network

Over 80 entrepreneurs by rotterzwam - Over 300 entrepreneurs by Ekofungi

Over the past years we have had the privilege to see how 370+ entrepreneurs created a mushroom shockwave in their community. See the full list of testimonials on our YouTube channel.

Pricing Options Mushroom Academy

We have several offers for the beginning mushroom farmer.
The rotterzwam program focuses on an urban setup using Coffee grounds as a substrate base. The Ekofungi program is a general program for mushroom production on a bigger rural scale with a diverse range of substrate resources.