SPANJE
A smaller, new farm with 10 sheds is used to grow eryngii in bottles.
Above: Most of the sheds are used for the cultivation of Pleurotus.
Pleurotus pulmonarius at Champinter.
nia sulphate are added to the straw. Water is added to the materials and the blend is filled into bunkers. Phase I lasts six to nine days, and the material is turned three times by a top filler. Conveyor belts transport the phase I compost to the tunnels, and after three weeks it has been pasteurised and colonised by mushroom mycelium. The spawn is sourced from Sylvan and Amycel and the cooperative’s own labora- tory. The varieties used are all similar, and growers have no choice in the matter. Per week, one tunnel is now spawned with chestnut mushrooms. Work stops at plant at the week- ends, apart from inspections.
Compost
production at Champinter.
The trays are also filled with incubated compost and cased at the compost plant. These prepared trays are then transported to the growers who have empty growing rooms ready and waiting. After the trays have been placed in the rooms, a shelving system like that used in North Europe is created. The company also has plans to centra- lise the process of mycelium colonising the casing soil, and then supply growers with trays that have already been ruffled (phase 3.5). We visited a grower who produces three flushes in 18 growing rooms in a six-week cropping cycle. 162 trays are placed in his empty rooms
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