I am not pro yet but I am collecting about 5 labs of oyster mushrooms a week, working on fruiting chestnut and a good work flow through them. I also have wine cap I am playing with for outdoor grow and possibly remediation of Chinese privet we remove and chip at work as it is invasive. Instead of chipping and then spraying once any seeds in them sprout. Wine cap love it and will eat the seed and keep any big pieces from rooting. I am looking at tiger sawgill for another one to play with for food and remediation of certain things. I have a few local grows near me but this area is dense in population and there is room in the market for a few more growers. Also developing my land for a market garden and plan to go live on that in a 2 years pending how work goes. If I move up then I will probably not go pro and just keep the hobby level of gardening and other grows. Now what I do hobby wise is more than some do because I usually can out a year's worth of many items like pasta sauce green beans salsa ect and have frozen and dehydrated items as well.
That brings me to one other thing, if you scale up buy do not have a buyer, dehydrate the mushies and sell that way. You could also just get good at making spawn, or ready to fruit blocks and sell those. You do not have to do it from lab to finished picked product. Even some of the big producers did not start like that, some still buy in spawn from outside sources. If you are around Va would love to collaborate with you. Good luck and keep growing 👍
