Gourmet mushroom farming is one of the fastest-growing sectors in local agriculture (check out our market analysis here) and one of the few where small-scale producers can still compete with big farms. With the right infrastructure, even a single grow chamber can become a reliable, profitable side business.
The MycoLogic Shroom Room is built for exactly this purpose. It’s a compact, automated, professional-grade unit designed to maintain perfect fruiting conditions for gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. It provides the consistency and control needed to turn mushroom growing into a predictable business.
Below, we’ll walk through how a grower can reasonably use a single Shroom Room to earn $3,000/month in take-home income.
Mushroom Fruiting Chamber Capacity
The Shroom Room fits 80–120 substrate blocks per cycle. Gourmet species like oysters, lion’s mane, and chestnuts typically fruit in 10–14 days, which means:
1–2 fruiting cycles per month
1.25–1.75 lbs per block on the first flush
30–50% of first-flush yield on the second flush
Using a conservative estimate of 1.5 lbs per block for the first flush:
- 100 blocks × 1.5 lbs = 150 lbs per month
If you choose to capture the second flush, you can increase your monthly output with no additional substrate cost. Using an average of 40% of first-flush yield:
100 blocks → +60 lbs
This brings total monthly production to approximately:
210 lbs at 100 blocks
This combined first + second flush model forms the foundation of your revenue potential
Making Money at Farmers Markets
For new mushroom farmers, we strongly recommend starting with farmers markets rather than wholesale channels.
Farmers markets are:
Easier to get into
More forgiving while you learn production
Significantly higher paying per pound
Typical pricing looks like this:
Farmers markets / direct-to-consumer: $16–$24 per lb
Wholesale: $8–$14 per lb
Using the production model above and a conservative farmers-market price of $20 per lb:
- 210 lbs x $20 = $4,200 per month in gross revenue
Mushroom Farming Costs
An advantage of running a single Shroom Room is that expenses are easy to understand and scale linearly. Using the 100-block production model, a typical month looks like this:
Substrate blocks: 100 × $10 per block = $1,000
Utilities (electricity + water): $65
Packaging & delivery: $75
Miscellaneous supplies: $60
A total of estimated monthly operating expenses comes to:
- $1,200 per month
What That Means for Take-Home Income
Gross revenue: ~$4,200/month
Operating costs: ~$1,200/month
≈ $3,000 remaining before taxes
Avoid Common Pitfalls of New Mushroom Farms
Most new mushroom growers struggle with contamination, humidity swings, poor CO₂ regulation, and inconsistent airflow and temperature. These problems are usually caused by improper fruiting environments, not a lack of effort or demand.
Many growers start with cheap or DIY fruiting rooms because they’re inexpensive up front, but end up paying the price through lost harvests and inconsistent yields when environmental conditions drift.
The Shroom Room was designed to autonomously regulate humidity, temperature, CO₂, and airflow, creating stable fruiting conditions for 20+ species of gourmet mushrooms. By removing environmental variability, it allows a single operator to run a predictable, income-generating mushroom business without the challenges that cause most new growers to struggle.
Final Takeaway
With fast fruiting cycles, strong farmers-market pricing, and a controlled fruiting environment, mushroom farming doesn’t need to be large-scale to be profitable.
By running one Shroom Room at steady capacity, capturing first and second flushes, and selling directly to customers, a grower can realistically build a $3,000/month mushroom business from a compact, automated system.