The Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast
Business:Entrepreneurship
In this episode of the podcast, we’re unlocking the power of mushrooms, powered by advancements in production automation, computer vision and artificial intelligence. Co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar take you on a mycologically odyssey with Christopher Klich, Co-Founder & CEO of Mycro Harvest, a southern Ontario agtech startup building the AI-driven mushroom smart farms of the future.
Themes tackled during this episode of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast include:
Road trips, discovery tours, talking to mushroom farmers
Finding scalable models for production optimization
Mycro Harvest’s mission and vision
Traditional versus advanced growing practices, standardization and automation
Varieties of specialty mushrooms and market opportunities
Cultivated versus wild-foraged native species, substrates
Controlled environment agriculture
From dried to fresh mushrooms, locally produced
Mushroom production in Canada’s North, food security implications
Lean startup thinking, iterative agriculture
Output and scalability
Shipping containers to control grow room dynamics
Controlling timing of production
Mushrooms as input into bioremediation
Optimizing properties of mushrooms
Mycro Harvest business model and target markets, ROI
Importance of mentorship for small teams and start-ups
Generational differences, traditional versus technologically transformed farming.
Acknowledgements
Mycro Harvest received $25,000 in performance-based seed funding from NCFDC’s thriveFORWARD initiative, with the support of FedDev Ontario and the Government of Canada.
The Executive Producer of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast is Robert Washburn. Special thanks to NCFDC’s Victoria Pichler and John Hayden. This project is made possible with the support of FedDev Ontario and the Government of Canada.
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