I been doing this within my household for the last 4 years and I feed my family from my yard. I grow mushroom with boxes, papers, coffee grounds and use the left over substrate to grow my fruits and veggies in my raised beds. I literally throw garbage two small bags per month. If we all do our parts it’s so easy to circulate everything we eat.
Fascinating!! Now to figuring how this concept can be used by the individual/family coffee brewer to produce edible mushrooms in their home/apartment.... Great to now see at 7:18 that "Grow Your Own" kits exist!! I forage berries & edible mushrooms but sadly find only very few of the latter nearby.
You can absolutely add coffee grounds to a substrate mix and sterilize in jars in a pressure cooker that fits on your counter. That can then be inoculated with perhaps a liquid culture and bam, mushrooms!
So you only need coffee grounds for the kit? No need to pressure cook anything? No straw, or nothing? I'm really interested. I'm vegetarian and would like to grow my own oyster mushrooms and others. A podcaster named Bassdrop Keys promotes your boomerbag. Soon, I'll get this when in a better financial place. Working on really trying to grow my channel to 1K. Thanks for being pioneers!
No, you'd definitely need to sterilize or at least pasteurize coffee grounds. You should start with a Spray & Grow Kit: northspore.com/collections/beginner-kits Hit us up at info@northspore.com and we can discuss many other methods, help you troubleshoot and give discounts!
Brewery waste is a huge asset and can definitely be used in this way. We don't utilize it, but as a supplement, which might be obtained for free, it shouldn't be overlooked!
How do you get businesses to. Provide you the waste? I can't imagine a local. Starbucks here in London having a dedicated coffee waste bin vs a general bin. Do you have to purchase the waste?
You ask. Explain what you're doing and don't make any more work for them! Tell them they'll get mushrooms and can market the use of their waste in this cool way.
how would i go about storeing the coffee grounds untill use in substarte? how long untill mold grows and makes it worthless? how soon from collection to use? can i leave a bucket at coffee shop for a week and then colect and use?
You would want to collect as soon as possible and then process or freeze. You will want to sterilize or pasteurize them again anyway. Left alone for 1 week would give you super moldy and unusable grounds.
The used coffee grounds in "Grow Your Own" kit, has it been sterilized as well? How important is the sterilization process to growing, i.e. will it still grow in used coffee grounds that have not been processed in any way?
I've heard from other sources that it's doable and am about to try myself to do a small build as we use grow in an empty coffee container. This is not best practices at all. I'm counting on the steaming hot water from brewing the coffee to sterilize my grounds, and I'm just using fuzzy stems from grocery mushrooms to inoculate. I don't have very high hopes, I'm just playing with things I have on hand. Depending on how it goes, I'll probably use my pressure cooker to sterilize some dried grass clippings to add in for round 2, and actually sterilize my coffee grounds. And I'll eventually get a NS grow kit to try it out with spent grow media. If it fails and becomes a hot mess, I tried and it'll go into the compost pile. If it goes well, I'll eat mushrooms and the rest will go into the compost pile lol.
Question,I live in central florida, when I can grow mushroom and what kind mushroom I can grow outside . Where can I grow ( with a lot of sun or in the shade ) and can I put fertilizer if I grow under fruit tree or garden
You can, but you need to make sure that the conditions they require are met. for example, the mushrooms like 85% humidity, so the plants need to as well.
Question I have tried to grow on coffee grounds about 3 times and each time it gets infected and goes green , are you sterilising the coffee grounds not mentioned in this video ,are you cleaning the coffee grounds also beforehand to use them to grow your mushrooms , thanks you.
instead of straw an yu use grass clippings? instad of coffee can vegetable refuse be used? what about other mushroom types that are edible? Morells, Shitake, oyster, etc. ?
A lot to go over here. Yes you can use grass clippings. Most grain loving mushrooms will also eat grass, however some prefer grass over anything else. Vegetable refuse could also be used. The more starchy the vegetables the better. You’d be better off mixing this type of waste into your substrate that consists of mostly something else. To your follow up comment yes all of those can be used and are typically used by hobbyists but I’m sure some operations use this kind of waste. Source: been studying for mycology certificate.
am working on the same project in algeria can i contact you please to set a cooperation in my countryi have a phd in microbiology and am actually searching for partners in morth afrcia to start something
My worms would love a bag of that substrate! This summer I am combining my love for Vermiculture and Fungi and making a food forest! Great video! 💚
I love this and have talked to people who very successfully combine the two.
I been doing this within my household for the last 4 years and I feed my family from my yard. I grow mushroom with boxes, papers, coffee grounds and use the left over substrate to grow my fruits and veggies in my raised beds. I literally throw garbage two small bags per month. If we all do our parts it’s so easy to circulate everything we eat.
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!
@@NorthSpore keep up the good work educating. I know it’s a lot of work to put contents out and we are grateful
We should all do our part to take care of our beautiful plane earth! Peace and love
Love it! Save our planet while we feed each other. Every little gesture adds up. Stay strong.
I love this idea, im thinking about growing my own mushrooms and was thinking about growing from coffee grounds.
Fascinating!! Now to figuring how this concept can be used by the individual/family coffee brewer to produce edible mushrooms in their home/apartment.... Great to now see at 7:18 that "Grow Your Own" kits exist!! I forage berries & edible mushrooms but sadly find only very few of the latter nearby.
You can absolutely add coffee grounds to a substrate mix and sterilize in jars in a pressure cooker that fits on your counter. That can then be inoculated with perhaps a liquid culture and bam, mushrooms!
I love mushrooms
This is amazing, would love to see more companies like this
Excellent job on the video and thanks for bringing this business to my attention.
We have many like these in the Netherlands, they’re amazing. Learned a lot about a larger scale set up from the video though, thank you!
So cool!
So you only need coffee grounds for the kit? No need to pressure cook anything? No straw, or nothing? I'm really interested. I'm vegetarian and would like to grow my own oyster mushrooms and others. A podcaster named Bassdrop Keys promotes your boomerbag. Soon, I'll get this when in a better financial place. Working on really trying to grow my channel to 1K. Thanks for being pioneers!
No, you'd definitely need to sterilize or at least pasteurize coffee grounds. You should start with a Spray & Grow Kit: northspore.com/collections/beginner-kits
Hit us up at info@northspore.com and we can discuss many other methods, help you troubleshoot and give discounts!
@@NorthSpore blessings... I need my own oyster grow! Vegetarian here for life!
This is amazing and I also hope that this idea grows. I would love to have some of your buckets!
This is such a cool video! Love this idea and the fact that they implemented it successfully. Hope that idea grows!!
So cool + inovative!
Very interesting!
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So cool. Thank you for sharing this!
Our pleasure!
Absolutely fantastic awesome!
Glad you like it!
Good job love you guys😍
This is excellent!
I love you commitment to the planet I am planning yo grow mushrooms at home this year kit
❤so excited to try this. Thank you for sharing. #nam #mushrooms #recyxle ❤
This is so cool :)
Great job!
que buena idea de economía circular, felicitaciones desde Colombia, deseando seguir sus pasos.
Bienvenidos y gracias por verlo!
this is amazing!
This is a amazing video, thank you so much for sharing
have you ever experimented with brewery waste? a new brewery opened up in my town and I'm in line to get some of the leftover barley mash, thanks!
Brewery waste is a huge asset and can definitely be used in this way. We don't utilize it, but as a supplement, which might be obtained for free, it shouldn't be overlooked!
How do you get businesses to. Provide you the waste?
I can't imagine a local. Starbucks here in London having a dedicated coffee waste bin vs a general bin.
Do you have to purchase the waste?
You ask. Explain what you're doing and don't make any more work for them! Tell them they'll get mushrooms and can market the use of their waste in this cool way.
Wow!!
Very nice!
Do the grow bags not have filter patches? Will it work without?
Great video & business!
Impressive it only take ~2y to break even!
how would i go about storeing the coffee grounds untill use in substarte? how long untill mold grows and makes it worthless? how soon from collection to use? can i leave a bucket at coffee shop for a week and then colect and use?
You would want to collect as soon as possible and then process or freeze. You will want to sterilize or pasteurize them again anyway. Left alone for 1 week would give you super moldy and unusable grounds.
Meanwhile I have 100s of pounds of worm castings from raising worms, and tub after tub of coffee grounds… and an extra 4x4 grow tent
You can definitely use those to help grow mushrooms and many other things!
I would so do this it’s were to get the used grounds from in the USA New Jersey wear I am is the thing
The used coffee grounds in "Grow Your Own" kit, has it been sterilized as well? How important is the sterilization process to growing, i.e. will it still grow in used coffee grounds that have not been processed in any way?
You can get away with pasteurizing a lot of the time, especially with oysters. Coffee grounds should be sterilized.
I've heard from other sources that it's doable and am about to try myself to do a small build as we use grow in an empty coffee container. This is not best practices at all. I'm counting on the steaming hot water from brewing the coffee to sterilize my grounds, and I'm just using fuzzy stems from grocery mushrooms to inoculate. I don't have very high hopes, I'm just playing with things I have on hand. Depending on how it goes, I'll probably use my pressure cooker to sterilize some dried grass clippings to add in for round 2, and actually sterilize my coffee grounds. And I'll eventually get a NS grow kit to try it out with spent grow media. If it fails and becomes a hot mess, I tried and it'll go into the compost pile. If it goes well, I'll eat mushrooms and the rest will go into the compost pile lol.
Is that a black light setup in the grow container?
Are these mushrooms caffeinated?
Good question actually. The answer is no.
We're can I find those giant bags for the hanging oysters? Thinking of moving just oysters to straw but cannot find bags like those
Just curious, we Vietnamese call all shroom nấm. Did it inspire your company’s name? Any how hope everyone doing well and successful
It did inspire their name! All the best to you!
How can you can you pasteurize or sterilize coffee grounds at home without a pressure cooker?
You can use jars in a large pot.
Question,I live in central florida, when I can grow mushroom and what kind mushroom I can grow outside . Where can I grow ( with a lot of sun or in the shade ) and can I put fertilizer if I grow under fruit tree or garden
I can't see the video, dunno why. the visual seems to crash, while the text and the sound are clear. that's just too bad
Can you grow mushrooms together with other plants that have 100 w LED?
You can, but you need to make sure that the conditions they require are met. for example, the mushrooms like 85% humidity, so the plants need to as well.
TRy using burlap bags/
Can I do that with my tea bags not a coffee drinker but drink a lot of Tea
You could use used tea for sure.
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Question I have tried to grow on coffee grounds about 3 times and each time it gets infected and goes green , are you sterilising the coffee grounds not mentioned in this video ,are you cleaning the coffee grounds also beforehand to use them to grow your mushrooms , thanks you.
in the video it says that the grounds are heated and cooled
Can this be done with cocoa hulls and spent tea leaves?
hi there, where is your farm located. thanks
We're in Portland, ME, USA!
Why dont you try Keykegs for growing, available free from breweries and beer outlets, durable and can be reused x
Interesting advice!
what's a keykeg?
instead of straw an yu use grass clippings? instad of coffee can vegetable refuse be used? what about other mushroom types that are edible? Morells, Shitake, oyster, etc. ?
Grain plant stalks after harvest, Dried rice lpants, and corn stalks and cobs?
A lot to go over here.
Yes you can use grass clippings. Most grain loving mushrooms will also eat grass, however some prefer grass over anything else.
Vegetable refuse could also be used. The more starchy the vegetables the better. You’d be better off mixing this type of waste into your substrate that consists of mostly something else.
To your follow up comment yes all of those can be used and are typically used by hobbyists but I’m sure some operations use this kind of waste.
Source: been studying for mycology certificate.
saving Co2 emissions 🤣🤣sorry but 🤣🤣🤦♂🤦♂
This is the coolest idea ever for using waste like this this is soo awesome
am working on the same project in algeria can i contact you please to set a cooperation in my countryi have a phd in microbiology and am actually searching for partners in morth afrcia to start something
We can certainly try, but we can't send living product your way unless you get the special permissions.