From $300 and A Google Search to a Mushroom Entrepreneur | Damian Mason
Damian Mason - The Business of Agriculture
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Kyle Beaver is a self-admitted Jack-of-all-Trades who, at age 25, turned a Google search into a mushroom business. Six years later he’s refining Ten Mile Mushrooms and launched a subsidiary. The business still grows some fungus for consumption but has morphed into a supplier of ready-to-fruit substrate. That means, they sell the stuff that makes mushrooms grow to fungus farmers and hobbyists. Kyle explains the company’s evolution and discusses the growth category of mushrooms.
Sponsored by:
Pattern Ag https://www.pattern.ag/
Redox Bio-Nutrients https://www.redoxgrows.com/
Truterra https://www.truterraag.com/
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