Licensed wild mushroom broker in Michigan looking to supply high end restaurants and customers with the highest quality, rarest ingriendients the Midwest can provide. Experience growing/ selling small amounts of vegetables at market along side mushrooms and other handmade goods.
Preferred location: Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lake, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Mason, Mecosta, Monroe, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oakland, Oceana, Ottawa, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Van Buren, Washtenaw, Wayne
Desired Transitional Agreement: Farm Seeker/Farm Owner Partnership, Lease, Lease to buy, Working arrangement with future partner
Aug 15, 2025
Desired Acreage
- 1-5 Acres
- 5-10 Acres
- 11-25 Acres
- 26-100 Acres
Desired Infrastructure
Desired Land Usage
Goals, Values, Vision
I would like to grow or help add value to any farm or land owner that could use me. My special interests include higher end gourmet mushrooms. I have my mushroom broker license and can certify species harvested from any private woods for sale so long as they are on the approved species list. I can also assist regenerative farmers in planning out mushroom farming operations which can also later be used to create some of the best soil you can get for your fields. Along with the mushrooms come the trees, nut trees, fruit trees, different species to bring in game or grow certain types of mushrooms. I can assist in forage fed livestock raising as well, helping you create a forest that feeds the animals and you more than just pasture. Famrers looking to add value to their field, field edges, forests and orchards are who I can help/ work with the most. I can help layer plant and animal species to create low maintence environments that add lots of value.
Farming Status
Current Farming Status
Part Time, Current active business plan
Farm Experience/Education
Farm employee, Farm internship/apprenticeship
Mentoring
I am seeking mentorship
Farming Plans and Practices
Farming Method
Organic Practices
I have no issue with sythetic fertilizers, they do not interfere with mushroom growth, but other poisons like pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides lower product quality and make layering in additional cash crops/ harvests difficult. So for farmers who use biggers sprayers or religiously spray for fungal diseases I am likely not going to be able to assist much. I can build your fungal and insect ecosystem to reduce this damage as much as possible and give advice on organic options that can be used to spot treat/ prevent disease but these are usually not aggressive measures. Almost any broad use of herbicides or insectiticides will make the land unsuitable for mushroom foraging as they absord these at much much higher rates than plants. Fungicides will also likely prevent mushroom growth. Past use of these chemicals also tends to make transitioning away from them harder but I am definetly willing to help farmers do that as well.
