Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from coffee waste

Re:Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from cof... by tren on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:01AM (#17662056)

Spent mushroom substrate is really good in compost (particularly vermicompost). I worked on a small scale gourmet mushroom farm earlier this year, it's easy enough to sell the spent medium to gardening businesses when you're done growing mushrooms.

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Re:Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from cof... by ariehkovler on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:08AM (#17662112)

I think all coffee grounds make decent fertiliser too, as well as decent compost, even without mushroom.

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Re:Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from cof... by stevehawk on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:56PM (#17664349)

coffee grounds alter the pH of whatever you use them in so you can't just blindly use it as fertilizer. Just an FYI before people start throwing their coffee grounds everywhere. It's worth researching whatever your growing to see what pH it prefers and then treat accordingly.

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Re:Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from cof... by redisman on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:10PM (#17664495)

They also just get moldy in "sterile-ish" environments like pots since there's nothing there to break them down. Works ok in the yard though.

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Re:Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from cof... by Ibethewalrus on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:40AM (#17662872)

Gourmet mushroom farm? Can you tell more?

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Re:Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from cof... by tren on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:40PM (#17668645)

It was at What The Fungus - you can check them out on youtube

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Re:Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from cof... by Ibethewalrus on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:50PM (#17754174)

thanks, great name and sorry for the late reply!

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