Subject: commercial mushroom cultivation (fwd)

From: MSDN <[email-masked]>
Date: 27 Mar 1996 19:35:13 -0000

I am forwarding the following enquiry received at MSDN. Can
anybody help? Thanks,  Sunil Nandi, MSDN, Sheffield, UK
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From: karen preece <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: commercial mushroom cultivation

HI we are a riding farm situated above Rochdale, Lancs and over the 
winter have amassed a big pile of compost from horses, straw and 
woodchip.
We are thinking of cultivating organic mushrooms on a large scale basis
(the compost heap is pretty huge at the moment) 

Can mushrooms be cultivated in such an environment - ie pretty harsh 
weather conditions, lots of manure to keep the mushrooms growing etc

Any comments would be much appreciated.