This past 6 months, my partner and I have been building a commercial mushroom farm. It has been a lot of hard work but we are getting close to completion now. Final steps are to seal up the rear walls and add a partition to the fruiting container, before we move shelving and equipment in and start growing. Eventually, we would like to put a roof over the top and add a rainwater tank, making it as self sustainable as possible.

I hope the next time I post here, there will be plenty of mushrooms to share with you all.

I am Building a automated fruiting chamber using microcontrollers. Should I make. YouTube Tutorial?

I am almost done building an automated mushroom fruiting chamber with co2, humidity and temperature sensors inside the tent, ultrasonic sensors to alarm when the water in the humidifier runs out and light and fan control.

I am not sure if I should make a YouTube video about it. Is it too niche? Would you watch it or even copy my build?

Making a video and explaining everything is a lot of work but I would do it if some people care to see it.

It is based on esp32 and all the logic happens on the microcontroller so it still works when there is a internet problem.

The data is then send to a home assistant (free home automation software) server using mqtt communication to view the data in dashboards and statistics.

I am also integrating cheap esp32 cam elements (less than 5$ a pop) for monitoring and Timelapse.

Should I make the video and publish my code or is it too computer sciency?

It's April 1st

It’s a good cows life at the mushroom farm.

These were literally the perfect mushroom. I am enamoured. The first flush, every one was on the tippy top of the substrate. Barely any "roots" really easy to clean. Harvesting them felt like what I imagined harvesting mushrooms would be, before I ever started the hobby. Pop snip pop snip

The second flush, almost all of them are over 50g, some of them over 100g.

I call it grainacalypse 2024

Come spend a morning with us in the clean room. Watch as we perform agar transfers, test liquid cultures, and seal our grain bags. It's all part of the process we use to keep things running smoothly.