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Mushroom Cultivation

At Home Mushroom Cultivation Boom

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OF MUSHROOMS CAN BE PRODUCED EACH YEAR IN 500 SQ FT OF SPACE

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INCREASE IN SALES OF INTRO GROWING SUPPLIES DURING THE PANDEMIC - NORTHSPORE

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RISE IN MUSRHOOM GROW KIT SALES DURING PANDEMIC - GROWCYCLE

There is an upward trend currently for people to have a side hustle in culinary mushroom growing at home. Whether in the USA or Africa, people are utilizing indoor spaces such as closets, offices, and sheds to grow gourmet culinary mushrooms for money and wellbeing. It’s possible to grow four 12-week cycles of mushrooms (with a few weeks of rest) into one year. In one year, you can grow 12,000 lbs of mushrooms in a space no bigger than a closet. 12k lbs of mushrooms – at $6 a pound – could generate $72,000 in a year for example.

Why Mushrooms in Madagascar?

Clean Water

Scraps can be used for mycofiltration as a cheap natural water treatment technique that uses fungi to filter and clean contaminated water

Locally Sourced

Can be easily grown on agricultural or urban wastes, like coffee grains, cardboard and rice husks

Financial Empowerment

Potential for the fastest return with the lowest financial investment and minimal space needed – Mississippi State University

Environmental Benefits

Sustainable and environmentally-friendly form of agriculture that does not require land. Taxonomy helps to preserve new land and identify new species for food and medicine

Sustainable Food

Sustainable tasty nutrition that doesn’t rely on forests. Also, a high protein meat substitutes and short intervels between harvests

Labour Friendly

Mushrooms can be grown indoors rather than in the field, and you do not need to own land or be physically able to work the land

What We Provide

STERILE LAB + SPAWN GROWING FACILITY IN MADAGASCAR

Our sterile lab was officially created in February 2025. We produce our own mushroom spawn and mushrooms. This ensures quality control for better mushroom yields for those we work with and train.

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM

Participants can use this skill to set up a small scale farm at home for their own consumption, or they can set up a collaborative farm producing mushrooms in larger scale. We mostly target women to empower, but generally subsistence farmers.

MADAGASCAR MUSHROOMS TO BUY

We have begun the process of selling to restaurants, grocery stores, markets, hotels, etc. In the future we hope to sell surplus in the form of dry mushrooms and package them for international standards, selling to local and international markets.

SUSTAINABLITY

By selling mushrooms, we will become more self sufficient so we can fund more of our own programs, and become more sustainable as an organization that further empowers Malagasy communities.

MUSHROOM SHARING

We give mushroom spawn + grow kits and mushrooms to families, schools and groups of people like Women’s Associations who participate in our programs. JJ recently helped form the first of its kind mushroom association in the capital city of Madagascar too.