Growing Mushrooms for Profit

By Erin Hamilton
Updated on October 2, 2024
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by Adobestock/Leslie C Saber

I’ve recently been growing mushrooms and am hoping to sell some of my harvest. How should I get started?


Growing mushrooms for profit can be fun and rewarding, follow these tips for a successful start to selling your extra produce at market.

If your vision is to grow mushrooms to sell, the following tips may help. (For info on growing your own mushrooms from plug spawn.)

Set up a safe, solid space. To maintain humidity for a larger quantity of mushrooms, you’ll need a greenhouse or grow tent that contains enough humidity to keep your mushrooms happy. Without adequate humidity, they’ll turn out smaller and harder than they ought to, or they’ll develop in strange shapes. When you’re only growing in a small number of buckets, you can maintain them with a misting bottle or a small cool-mist humidifier nearby, but market quantities are difficult to maintain without some control.

You’ll also need ventilation to remove excess carbon-dioxide buildup, and if your setup is indoors, you’ll need some kind of air filtration on your ventilation to ensure you aren’t releasing enormous quantities of spores into your house or barn.

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