Indoor production of oyster mushrooms is a new and growing field. Renee Jacobson is a self taught grower with the unique model of growing on used coffee grounds. She received a USDA/NIFA Northeast SARE Farmer grant in 2017 entitled “Oyster mushroom cultivation using spent coffee grounds and hardwood sawdust." Learn more: https://projects.sare.org/sare_project/fne17-874/
In this second half of the Cornell Small Farms Program’s May webinar in the mushroom webinar series, Renee shares her method and production model, as well as tips and insights from here experience as a self taught grower.
These free webinars occur on the first Wednesday of each month, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST, and are recorded and posted for later viewing on CornellMushrooms.org and on this YouTube channel.
Learn more and register for the webinars: http://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2019/04/22/free-monthly-webinar-series-on-specialty-mushrooms-from-our-mushroom-project/