Sunday, February 03, 2008

Get Rich Raising Mushrooms



Wow! What a great idea! Growing mushrooms is like making gold from manure! Just check out the price of mushrooms at the local store. This is a great way to make extra money on the side from your other animal-raising operations -- chickens and hamsters for example. What could go wrong? Nothing!

This ad is from the March 1937 issue of Popular Science.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This one is still being encouraged -- only now you are supposed use the space under your greenhouse benches to grow shitakes.

You can also get hardwood trunks impregnated with a specific spawn to grow mushrooms for your own use -- I don't know anyone who does this personally, but the grower makes the rounds of the PA farm conferences.

Dorene