Our first foray into inoculating our own oak logs can be viewed, here. That was about 15 months ago, and we have harvested some mushrooms since then, but this was our first sizable harvest of about 4 lbs. We thought we might have let our logs get too dry over the winter, but the boys […]
It’s been too long since I’ve updated the blog, but here’s some of what we’ve been up to this summer. Click on any picture to see a larger view. Sarah, Ben, and I harvesting about 50 lbs of sweet potatoes from a 4’x8′ raised bed. We inoculated Oak logs with Shiitake spawn this spring. We
My parents bought us a Shiitake sawdust spawn starter kit as a Christmas gift from Field and Forest Products. We had to wait a little bit before we could actually inoculate the logs because they recommend that daytime highs stay consistently above 45 degrees. We had planned to fence in the garden area and cut
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Cedar posts cut and post holes dug for compost bins. Sarah and I have talked at length about all the things we want to do at our new place. I will be moving there ahead of Sarah and Ben (+ two cats) in preparation for us all to live there permanently this summer. We have