Mushroom growers
Chester County produces more than 500 million pounds of mushrooms a year, roughly half the U.S. crop, and most of it grows within ten miles of Kennett Square. Every farm in the belt uses water by the thousand gallons, and a tote is a convenient tank.
01Where totes fit on a mushroom farm
- Holding water ahead of the growing rooms.
- Mixing and holding cleaning solution for the rooms between crops.
- Collecting runoff and rinse water at the packing house.
- Standing as a spare tank at a pump or a boiler house.
02What the grower asks for
Growers ask for a few totes at a time, in 275 or 330, with a food-safe or plain-water past, delivered to the farm. They care about the last contents and the valve; they care little about the retest date, because a tank on a farm is not moving on a road.
Compost, spawn and growing-medium work has its own rules that this site does not cover. The desk deals only in empty totes for water.
03The sellers who fill a Kennett Square ticket
Food makers in Delaware County and Montgomery County send the best-matched totes, and the Pureland and Pennsauken food distributors are an hour away over the Delaware Memorial Bridge or the Commodore Barry. The Kennett Square district page lists the ZIPs and the roads.
04Ticket notes
Give the farm’s ZIP, the number of totes, which size and that the use is water. Say if the tote must have a drain valve with a given thread, as most farm hoses do.
05Post the ticket
?Questions on this page
How big is the mushroom belt?
Chester County growers produce more than 500 million pounds of mushrooms a year, around half the U.S. crop, per a WHYY report.
Can mushrooms be grown in a tote?
The desk makes no claim about growing. It lists totes for water only.
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-11. Rules change; read the current text before you act on it.