“I harvest these mushrooms every six hours – four times a day.

Each time I harvest it takes me about two hours for five to ten kilograms,” Mr.Tom told me proudly.

Growing these mushrooms is an around-the-clock operation, more time-intensive than milking cows.

“The cold season doesn’t produce as many mushrooms as during the summer,

but fewer mushrooms means I can sell them for a higher price.

Now it is cold season, and I can sell one kilogram for 100 baht.”

These mushrooms are a money maker, and allows Mr.Tom to provide for his family while working from home.

Mr. Tom is a self-taught mushroom farmer who has been growing mushrooms for over ten years.

He specializes in “Hed Khon Khao,” as it is called in Thai, or Lentinus squarrosulas Mont.

This variety of mushrooms is eaten widely throughout Asia.

This is a homemade pasteurization chamber made from a modified 1000-liter water tank that is heated by fire beneath the tank.

Mr. Tom’s mushroom houses are 4 x 10 meters insulated with two layers of anti-UV plastic sheets and saran shade cloth.

He ventilates the house by drawing back the layers to allow better air circulation.

He monitors temperatures inside these houses by sense alone without the use of thermometers or sensor equipment.

Virada Chatikul (Packdee's niece)
www.viradachatikul.com

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I like your post very much but the weblinks don't work

I am sorry. I forgot to check the weblinks.

Virada Chatikul (Packdee's niece)
http://www.imagintana.com

http://www.facebook.com/virada.chatikul/about#!/virada.chatikul

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Last month, Mr.Tom invited me to see him while making Hed Khon Khao substrate Bags.

He hired an 80 years old grandmother to work for him 200 baths a day.

His pasteurization chamber is working to pasteurise 700 substrate bags/tank at once.

Wait the pasteurized substrate bag to cool down then inoculate with grain spawn.

Outside his mushroom house.

Inside his mushroom house.

Fruiting body of Hed Khon Khao.

Hed Khon Khao is a sadism mushroom.

There is a legend.

Once a mushroom grower could not be patient to wait for the fruiting to come out.

He got angry and slapped the mushroom substrate with his slipper.

Few days latter the fruiting body started to come out.

Packing

Taking the mushroom to a nearby market.

Our Mushroom houses aer smaller but we have five of them. We get 70 baht a kilo and that provide a good profit over time.]]That is a good idea on the oven. Does he use the steel racks with that oven?

If I can't get the oven I spoke of in the othe thread. That would be easy to make here. 700 at a time would do.