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Outdoor Mushroom Farmer looking for Partner Farm

Located in
  • Lower Mainland - Fraser Valley -
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Land Seeker Details

Training
  • Agriculture-related degree - Forestry, Natural Resource Management
  • Farm management (3 years or less) - Food Forest Project Manager for Clearwater Farms
  • General farming (3 years or less) - Nursery Manager for Orchid Farm in Hawaii and farm hand at Kava Farm in Hawaii (1 year)
Do you have a business plan?
Yes - Please email me for more information
Do you have financial resources available to start your farm?
Yes - Agi-preneur grant and research funding
Do you have access to other financial resources (such as a financial partner, loan, etc.) to start your farm?'
No

Project

Farm Name
Foraged Product and Services
Farm Project Description

Foraged strives to be the leading provider of fungi products and services in Vancouver and surrounding areas. We specialize in outdoor mushroom cultivation. We offer products and services to individuals, organization and businesses interested in growing fungi; indoors, outdoors or anywhere else you'd like! We encourage our community to experiment with various mushrooms in their kitchen and in their garden by offering educational and culinary products. Our speciality is in education and capacity building, strain selection, and outdoor mushroom farms. Currently, we have over 30 unique strains at our lab space and are building out a mobile mushroom lab to facilitate courses and offer on-site services. We are looking to partner with a farm near Vancouver or on the Sunshine Coast to park our mobile mushroom lab in spring 2021 and grow mushrooms, primarily in outdoor cultivation methods. We would like to add our mushrooms to an existing CSA or farm co-op. This preliminary research will help us develop a feasibility report for larger outdoor mushroom farms in Vancouver (we already know its feasible on the east coast) and allow us to understand what scale is possible. We have much more to say and a lot of wiggle room to fit into your existing operations! Please reach out if you are interested in mycology or adding mushroom products to your CSA!

Preferred Arrangement
  • Lease -
  • License -
  • MOU -
  • Business Partnership -
Duration of the desired agreement
1-5 years
Ideal date to obtain land by
January 2021

Land & Features Desired

Total Land Size (acres)
1 acre or less
Wooded Area (acres)
Yes - A mixed forest is best (not species specific)
Cultivable Area (acres)
N/A
Possibility to expand area currently available (acres)
No
Zoning
ALR
Preferred current state of the surface of the cultivable area

Does not need to agricultural soil, mushroom farming can happen on top of a cleared area or under the shade of a wooded section.

Open to landowner residing on property
Yes
Need farm buildings
Yes - We will need a covered place to store incubating bags - it is possible that we can bring our own portable greenhouse.
Need fenced land
No
Need farm machinery and tools
Yes - electricity is needed
Need established water source and infrastructure
very little
Need on-site housing
No
Production type
  • Other - mushrooms
Type of agriculture
  • Organic -
Soil needs
Will acquire commercial insurance
No
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