MYFARM
In each edition of “Mushroom Business”, we publish an interview with a grower. The emphasis here is on the farm and cultivation methods. This issue features a
portrait of the farm owned by Kamil Pawlowski, in Chotycze in the east of Poland. By John Peeters
Mushroom farm Kamil Pawlowski (PL)
Kamil Pawlowski with his mother, his mushrooms and his classic American Ford. The grower
“Some people say I’m too young for such a large farm of my own. I’m in my mid-twen- ties, so what’s the big deal? I come from a mushroom-grow- ing family, and you know what they say about real talent breaking though fast. In 2000, my mother started a small farm of just five growing rooms in Losice. That site now houses 10 growing rooms with a total growing surface area of 2680
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square metres. There is abso- lutely no space to expand any further, there’s not even room for a filling machine, so we have to fill the blocks by hand. That didn’t really fit in with my future plans, so I started to build a new farm here from 2011 onwards. I do have a filling machine here, constructed by the way by a local smith. The costs were less than half for a branded machine, and I intend to keep using it for the time
being – the investments are high enough as it is. We fill compost that is sourced from four different suppliers. I don’t like to put all my eggs in one basket. I have enough space here to expand in the future. In fact, my brother is shortly going to start building his own mushroom farm just 200 metres away. As I said, mush- room growing is in our blood. My other passion is classic American cars. My car is always
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