SHIITAKE LOGGING.
My eyes are almost never bigger than my plate—I may be a skinny dude, but I can eat. However, as a metaphor for farming, sometimes I can indeed bite off more than I can chew. Case and point? Our...
View ArticleMORELS, MORELS, MORELS!
Morels are a type of mushroom – and they have been consuming all of our time and energies these days. If you have never tasted one, then you can’t possibly understand how these little fungi can...
View ArticleCHANTERELLE SEASON.
I don’t know about you, but we have had an unreal mushroom year. Our morel season was prolific, and our chanterelle season is, for some odd reason, still going—four good flushes and counting. The...
View ArticleA WALK WITH WENDELL.
We took our new camera and our giant puppy on a walk to check on the mushroom logs. Remember those? Well, we are just now enjoying the first fruits of last years labor, and we are about to inoculate...
View ArticleMOREL SUCCESS!
It hasn’t been a great mushroom season so far, but some is better than none, right?
View ArticleMUSHROOM WALK.
There are about one hundred feet in between the road and our spring, and all of these mushrooms were spotted in that short walk. Wish we could have had these rainy days during morel and chanterelle...
View ArticleMUSHROOM PARTY.
Okay, so according to Field and Forest ––our beloved spawn purveyor––our mushroom spawn will be arriving next week. And this means we will be inoculating logs on the following Sunday. Anyone who wants...
View ArticleA NEW CAMERA WALK.
We have been taking lots of four o’clock walks lately, right as the sun is (sadly!) beginning to set and we realize we need to get out of the house while we still can. We went walking a few days ago to...
View ArticleTHIS & THAT.
Some random photos from the past few weeks on the farm. Biodynamic preparations we spread on our compost pile. Foggy morning mulching the garlic. Surprise flush of shiitakes! Finding hidden treasures...
View ArticleFALL GARDEN + NEW MUSHROOMS + SWEET CORN LOVE (WITH VIDEO)
Taking a stroll around the farm on our YouTube today and talking about some of the things we have going on including the new residents of our intern cabin who are really a couple of fungis. Okay, you...
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