by meghan | Jun 13, 2018 | Mushroom Experiments
The front boardwalk has been built! We still need to build a ramp. The holding water tank has been installed. We will be pumping rain water into this tank. This tank will fill a tote inside the greenhouse. The fog is created from the tote. Some shelving has been... 
by meghan | May 24, 2018 | Mushroom Experiments
After several months of planning, things are coming together! Land was leveled with a back hoe, frame was built and the main structure has been assembled. This is the beginning of the new greenhouse for fruiting mushrooms. It is modeled off... 
by meghan | Apr 15, 2018 | Mushroom Experiments
If someone had told me 5 years ago that I would be living on a farm building mushroom wood chips beds (with mushroom spawn I made myself), I would not have believed them. This weekend we were in the most pleasant situation to have on hand all the materials required! ... 
by meghan | Apr 2, 2018 | Mushroom Experiments
We are super excited to be trying these new collars for growing Reshi! We’ll keep you posted on how well they work. We just inoculated our first round of sawdust this past... 
by meghan | Dec 10, 2017 | Mushroom Experiments
Check out our latest experiment! We pressure cooked our sawdust medium in 32 oz glass canning jars. We have lots of bins of jars around and decided to see what might happen. We have inculcated these jars with King Oyster grain spawn (Pleurotus... 
by meghan | Sep 14, 2017 | Fruiting Mushrooms, Mushroom Experiments
This summer we had a lot more mushroom experiments around the farm and therefore created a significant number of juicy, yummy, fruiting mushroom bodies! The fungus gnats enjoy all of the various oyster varieties we have growing. We singlehandedly increased the local...