Here's an experiment that I'm toying with after finding years and years of old phone books lying around our office space.  True, there are phone book recycling services, but I figured I'd try to turn these phone books into a tool for producing food.  Lord knows people have plenty of old phone books lying [...]

 Producing oyster mushrooms in our small, urban farm has proven a rewarding experience. The above photo was taken several weeks after inoculation into freshly cut elm logs. Inoculation was done using plug spawn, or wooden dowels heavily colonized with oyster mushroom mycelium. I used a high powered drill to perforate the inoculation [...]

As I mentioned several weeks ago, we are in the process of rebuilding our soil fertility in our garden. One great service that I will personally attest to is that provided by a local company called Organic Technology International. For $65, I brought them a soil sample and had it analyzed. [...]

In a recent interview on the Agroinnovations Podcast, Paul Stamets, mycologist and ecological pioneer, had this to say: "There's a form of biological racism, unfortunately, that I have been confronting all of my life. And, people are prejudiced against mushrooms. [...]