Have your mushroom growing questions answered for free in Zimbabwe

For those on twitter this is not news. Having said that please note that this is no substitute for consultancy and/or training.

I would like commend anythingmushroom for commitment to the mushroom industry, questions can also be asked via whatsapp +263772888752 no text messages will be replied to.

Mushtella has also committed to the same, +263773842677.

This is commendable in Zimbabwe as mushroom growing information is scarce. Feel free to contact them and ask questions and be sure to give us feedback.

Some time to laugh as a mushroom expert

A lady calls me, she wants to buy button mushroom spawn. We agree on price and collection times. As usual I want to know more about the client: where they are, their system and all. Than I smelt a rat and asked the client to call me as a matter of urgency and she did and here is what she wanted to do.

1. Buy well decomposed compost And she says it must be 5 years old, she had made an order for it (I wonder who had 5 years old compost)

2. She had access to some sawdust if the compost wasn’t enough.

At this point I was laughing hysterically and tears were flowing (tears of laughter)

Where did you get all this????? I asked.

1. She had seen my whatsapp profile for the shelves.

2. Internet

To do all this she was going to use a bank loan. All I said was I saved you.

New growers need take time research, get trained and/or be assisted by a good consultant. This lady was blank and rushing to make money. I hope this makes you laugh too if you are already a grower.

What do you think we need do as growers to alleviate these  challenges.

Mushroom blogs in Zimbabwe

This short post is in honour of mushroom bloggers in Zimbabwe. Information on mushroom growing is very scarce in Zimbabwe and people primarily rely on information on the internet which is in most cases irrelevant. Zimbabwe mushroom industry (zimushindustry) is written by Nyasha Mupaso as a non profit just to raise awareness on mushroom growing and try to bring together mushroom growers to collaborate for the development of the industry in Zimbabwe,growers are free to contribute articles on Any subject as long as its mushroom growing.

I would like to honour Masimba Mpahlo for his anythingmushroom blog click here for his blog. He raise very crucial subjects and his blog has detail.

I also write another blog for my own business. Visit the mushtella blog for more. I hope we get to see more blogs in our industry.

Masimba and Nyasha also write another blog jointly kurima agro

There is a vibrant mushroom growers group on whatsapp all growers are free to join. Simply whatsapp +263773842677.

What do you think on mushroom blogs in Zimbabwe.