Mushroom making - home based job

Now a day, mushroom farming business gives good profit within few weeks for the people who are interested to do business in home. You can easily earn money by planting mushrooms by following below steps.

1. Spawn and substrate

Either you can produce your own spawn using a sterile culture or you can buy ready-to-inoculate spawn, which are carried by suppliers. Also you need to buy the substrate. Many growers use straw or wood chips. Straw is generally the preferred method. You want straw that can be chopped up into little pieces.

2. Prepare substrate

First, chop the straw into short pieces. Next, wet the straw. Now it’s time to heat the straw in boiling water. Continue boiling for half an hour and then remove the straw and drain it. Next, spread out the straw on a clean surface and let it cool down.

3. Pack into plastic bags

Now it’s time to pack plastic bags with the straw and spawn. Pack two or three inches of straw into the plastic bag and then lightly sprinkle the spawn on top. Repeat this until you’ve almost filled the bag, close the top and poke holes in the bag.

4. Incubation

Now it’s time for incubation. Keep the growing area at around 78 degrees F. Places the bags on a shelving unit. Remember to stop any threats of natural light getting into the room. Cover windows and cracks. Use a red “darkroom” light when you need to check on your bags. When you start to notice tiny pinhead mushrooms near the air holes in your bag, then you’re ready to move on to the next step.

5. Fruiting

For your fruiting room, you need a high level of humidity. The temperature will need to be 65 to 70 degrees F. Unlike the incubation room, you’ll actually need a lot of natural light—at least 12 hours a day. To shock your mycelium, which will force it into fruiting, move the bags to a cool place for a day, such as a basement or other cool place, and then move them back to the fruiting room. Next, cut away the bag, which allows mushroom growth to take place.

6. Harvesting

Just before your mushroom caps are fully uncurled, that’s when it’s time to harvest. To do so, twist the stem off as near to the growing block as you are able to. You’ve now harvested your mushrooms.

7. Picking

• Pick each mushroom with an upward twisting motion.
• Break them off at the casing surface.
• Do not pull with pieces of casing being lifted still attached to the mushroom.
• Following picking, there should be as few holes or stumps of mushrooms left in the bed, as is possible.
• Brushing mushrooms after picking, to remove compost and casing material.
• These can cause bad discoloration of the cap.
• Mushrooms left too long before picking can over mature...as little as 12 hours can make a significant difference. 

Tips: 

There are 3 types of mushrooms that are easiest to grow at home are oyster, white button, and Shiitake. The method for growing each mushroom is similar, but the ideal growing medium differs.

Oyster mushrooms grow best in straw; Shiitakes grow best on hardwood sawdust; button mushrooms grow best in composted manure. These different growing media reflect the different nutritional needs of each species. However, each of these 3 species can be grown readily enough in sawdust or straw. Choosing a type of mushroom to grow is a matter of taste. You should grow the type you most want to eat.

Simple Business Ideas

Before proceeding with this topic, first we need to understand the basic requirements of normal human being. Generally people will prefer three basic things. 

• Food

• Clothes

• Home

Based on the people need we have to start our business which will give you more profit. Also, we have to be make sure the location for the business that we are going to start. For example, if you want to start super market we have to make sure that the super market should be placed in center of the city and crowded area which will bring more customers for your super market and gives good profit on your business. Like the same we can see simple business ideas here.

1. TAILORING:

We have a lot of work from home jobs. Based on your knowledge or experience on particular work you can go for the home based business. Mostly, women can do tailoring by stitching clothes and adding designs or decorative materials in the cloth will give good money while selling into company. Also, we can take contract from a company to stitch some amount of clothes on monthly basis which will give good income per month. 

2. GARDENING :

if you have some land around your home then you can plant some trees (ex: Banana tree) or vegetable plants. It will give you good environment to your home and will be giving good air and health for the people who are living in a area having lot of trees. As a business plan you can sell the vegetables in the market and will be useful for your personal use too.

3. MUSHROOM MAKING : 

Another good idea of making money is planting mushroom in your home. If you have any empty room then, you can use it mushroom planting which requires dark and little bit cold room atmosphere for a healthy mushroom. It requires minimum investment and it gives you good profit at the end. Within short period of time you can earn money if you know the process of making mushroom.

4. CLOTH DESIGNING :

Now a days, people are preferring the designed cloth instead of a simple one. Hence, to make a fashionable cloth you can do some decorations in a plain cloth based on your imagination. For example you can stick some colorful stones on those clothes which makes attractive. Also, you can do some painting or embroidering. Based on the attractiveness and complexity of your design, you can earn good profit by selling a market.

5. RENTING HOUSE :

If you have multiple rooms or separate house then you can rent your house which will give you earnings on monthly basis. If you are giving furnished house then you can increase the rent for your house as now a days most of the people are preferring furnished house. Mostly bachelors are preferring furnished one as they want all the accessories with minimal cost.

We can see some more business ideas in the upcoming posts which will give you more knowledge and idea on small scale businesses. Please share your ideas in below comments which will help us to understand your views on small businesses and will be helpful to make better post in future.