Watch: Canada's First Vertical Mushroom Farm
Published on: January 2, 2019
Rachel Gruger is co-owner of Gruger Family Fungi in Nisku, Canada’s first vertical mushroom farm.
The Nisku operation is the only indoor vertical mushroom farm of its kind in Canada. It specializes in tree-loving mushrooms so you won’t see any regular grocery store portobello or button mushrooms growing here.
In just three years, the Grugers went from farming their first mushrooms in a converted shipping container to producing about 12,000 pounds of mushrooms per month in their Nisku facility. The farm grows 10 different kinds of mushroom. Some are to eat and some are medicinal varieties meant to heal.
With files from Lisa Johnson