"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."
Sustainability
Sustainability and environmental stewardship are two key tenets of our entire business. We do everything in our power to leave the Earth a better place than we found it. This means recycling, composting, and reducing our CO2 emissions in anyway we can.
Recycling: Mushrooms are nature’s original recyclers and the process of mushroom farming takes advantage of typically wasted byproducts such as hardwood sawdust and soybean hulls. However, an adverse reality of most mushrooms farms is their use of vacuum sealed plastic bags for containing sawdust spawn. Unfortunately, there currently isn’t a better option available at this time due to the need of sterile materials. However, in an effort to conserve our plastic use we recycle 100% of all of our plastic waste at local recycling facilities.
Composting: Composting is the natural, biological breakdown of any once living, organic material, back into a substance that can be used as organic nutrients in vegetable farming. Our spent mushroom blocks are the ideal candidates to being composted, as the mushrooms have done half of the work in breaking down the oak sawdust already. After they’ve grown delicious mushrooms for you, our blocks get piled into compost heaps to breakdown and be added back to our gardens as nutrient rich compost.
Efficiency: Did you know mushrooms are one of the most efficient foods on Earth? We produce up to 18 pounds of mushrooms per square foot of growing space. In order to produce that same amount of beef, it would require 4,680 square feet of grazing space for a standard beef cow. It also only takes a little over 2 liters of water to produce 3 pounds of mushrooms at our farm. For the same amount of beef: 5,541 gallons. Yeah, you read that right. Mushrooms are also time efficient. In as little as a month and a space as small as 8 feet by 12 feet you can grow approximately 960 pounds of mushrooms.
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