Lost in the Pines Farm, LLC | Application Preview
Lost in the Pines Farm, LLC is seeking government grants to support its expansion into green energy, cover certification and farmers market fees, and fund telecommunication education initiatives. The business aims to tap into the local market for specialty mushrooms and produce, with a focus on education through online workshops and on-site tastings. Collaboration with local farms to create diverse CSA boxes is also part of their strategy, alongside initial sales at farmers markets around Austin before expanding to grocery stores.
The farm plans to diversify its offerings by eventually producing medicinal mushrooms, which will be processed into capsules for sale online and on platforms like Amazon, broadening their reach to an international market. The team emphasizes their commitment to community engagement and education as pivotal to their success.
Their competitive landscape includes small-scale farms like HiFi Myco and Fallen Oak Mushrooms, as well as larger operations like Monterey Mushrooms. Lost in the Pines believes their diverse product range and focus on education will give them an edge, especially as the popularity of mushrooms grows. They anticipate establishing a strong position in the specialty mushroom segment within one to two years, highlighting that existing local competitors lack the variety and production capacity they intend to offer.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 843742651
Location: McDade, TX, United States
Length of Operation: >1
Number of Employees:
Annual Gross Income:
Annual Gross Expense:
Open to Loans: YES
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Funding Usage
Green energy expansion, certification fees, farmers market fees, telecommunication education costs
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Business Plan
Cornering the unsaturated market for speciality mushrooms and specialty produce in our local area is something we're confident we can achieve and maintain. We plan to promote locally by providing education through telecommunicated workshops/streams and interactive workshops/tastings on the farm. We also plan to collaborate with other local farms to create diverse CSA boxes. We believe staying actively involved in the local community will be the key to our local success. We have plans to start off by selling at local Farmers Markets in the general Austin area and will expand into selling at grocery stores. We eventually have plans to expand into producing "medicinal" mushrooms (Reishi, Turkey tail, Maitake, Cordyceps, etc.) in which we can process into capsules that will be sold on our website and amazon. These dietary supplements can be shipped internationally which will open up our targeted market. As a company, we not only benefit ourselves but our consumers and local community. We stand by education as a key to success. With the popularity of mushrooms on the rise, we have a plan in place for exponential growth.
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Self Identified Competition
HiFi Myco; a local small scale mushroom farm that produces and sells specialty mushrooms at local farmers markets. Monterey Mushrooms; a large scale mushroom farm in Texas that is in the majority of Texas grocery stores. Fallen Oak Mushrooms; a local small scale mushroom farm that produces a mushroom coffee product and sells medicinal mushrooms. The local mushroom market is already incredibly unsaturated and we feel with the increasing popularity of mushrooms, we believe we can have the specialty mushroom market cornered within 1-2 years. Hifi Myco is a small scale farm that doesn't have the diversity we are going to offer. They also don't have the space we have to move into a larger production. Monterey Mushrooms has the grocery store market cornered at the moment but they only sell 3 strains of generic mushrooms. We believe with education and the rising popularity of other strains of mushrooms, we can get our foot in the door at "health food" grocery stores that tend to carry more specialized food. Fallen Oak Mushrooms mainly produces a very specialized mushroom product that we aren't competing with. They sell medicinal mushrooms on a much smaller scale with less variety than we plan to offer.
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