Ridgetop
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Are they tasty?
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rachels.haven
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Yep! I think it's a worth while supplemental garden project.
Ridgetop
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In addition to fancy goat cheese you can also raise specialty mushrooms!
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rachels.haven
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I could. And I probably would if I could get my family to go with me to the farmers' market routinely. But right now I'm just a one woman show so for now I'm just growing food for my family and trying to figure out how and when to start enough bags for a consistent supply of supplemental fake meat.
(Also, my cheese cave fridge died and getting a new free or cheap old fridge before getting rid of the old one would give DH brain cramps. The task is in the works but for now no more hard cheese making until it occurs. So for now I'll just make fat baby goats.)
I like growing grapes too, and keeping cultures. In an alternate life we could have quite a setup going. I'll let Mark be the bread winner for now. His work pays a LOT better than anything I can do.
(Also, my cheese cave fridge died and getting a new free or cheap old fridge before getting rid of the old one would give DH brain cramps. The task is in the works but for now no more hard cheese making until it occurs. So for now I'll just make fat baby goats.)
I like growing grapes too, and keeping cultures. In an alternate life we could have quite a setup going. I'll let Mark be the bread winner for now. His work pays a LOT better than anything I can do.
murphysranch
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I put hubs on Lions Mane mushrooms, dried, for memory issues he's been diagnosed with.
Mini Horses
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I like your mushrooms. Assume you bought kit/ spores. Would you possibly share the site? I'd like to think on that project -- I love mushrooms 
those are pretty, too
those are pretty, too
Baymule
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Is it helping him?
Mini Horses
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I looked up golden oyster, then looked at Field&Forest site...read instructions...
. Heck, might as well raise another baby. That's a whole lot of step by step, humidity, temps, turn, cut here & there
. An incubator of egg requires about the same, chicks last longer
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They really are pretty, probably tasty but time consuming plus expensive. Wow, you go girl!! My list is too long for that. Woowee.
. Heck, might as well raise another baby. That's a whole lot of step by step, humidity, temps, turn, cut here & there. An incubator of egg requires about the same, chicks last longer. They really are pretty, probably tasty but time consuming plus expensive. Wow, you go girl!! My list is too long for that. Woowee.
SageHill
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Thank God there's a mushroom farm close by!I looked up golden oyster, then looked at Field&Forest site...read instructions...
They really are pretty, probably tasty but time consuming plus expensive. Wow, you go girl!! My list is too long for that. Woowee.
My DDIL is trying to grow some - she needs old or dead oak branches - which of course there are many here on the ranch.
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rachels.haven
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It's true I wasn't in a hurry for any of this project but it wasn't a lot of work.
I bought a liquid culture syringe for the varieties I wanted, grew it on a sugar solution so I had an infinite amount (forgot about in my closet for a while/let the pre-k kid put it on the magnetic stirrer every day for me...poor blenderized mushrooms...), once grown in I injected a few ml into soaked oat jars I pressure cooked before hand (forgot about again for a couple weeks-USE A CALENDAR), then put on hydrated oak wood stove pellets in filter bags, sealed, and forgot about them until I remembered so they could colonize again and eventually cut the bags open and let the mushrooms grow.
I guess I could have bought a kit, but I wanted to ALL the steps though so I could form opinions (plus due to my wheat intolerance I wanted it gluten free). It's less work than a garden, and it's only work every few weeks...maybe an hour? There's a lot of forgetting about it, which is perfect for kidding season. I also got a sealer, bags, filter patches, and injection ports, so there was some setup cost, but it was much cheaper than a garden. I sterilized things in my instant pot for about double the recommended time so I did not buy a pressure canner YET (I want one for the garden).
I wanted to grow lion's mane for my dad. I chickened out of the reishi he wanted because they are not delicious, but he's still going to do it.
I guess I could make a kit and sell it, but right now I'm not sterilizing the oak pellets right now because the bags are too big for my pressure cooker, so some of them bomb out and I figure I should use a LOT of the innoculated grain to seed it and I'm not sure that would scale cost effectively. If I was going to sell them I think I'd also want to have a setup to do that to have more certain successes. Some of my bags fail and I don't care because they're just compost and were cheap to make, not much effort involved.
I bought a liquid culture syringe for the varieties I wanted, grew it on a sugar solution so I had an infinite amount (forgot about in my closet for a while/let the pre-k kid put it on the magnetic stirrer every day for me...poor blenderized mushrooms...), once grown in I injected a few ml into soaked oat jars I pressure cooked before hand (forgot about again for a couple weeks-USE A CALENDAR), then put on hydrated oak wood stove pellets in filter bags, sealed, and forgot about them until I remembered so they could colonize again and eventually cut the bags open and let the mushrooms grow.
I guess I could have bought a kit, but I wanted to ALL the steps though so I could form opinions (plus due to my wheat intolerance I wanted it gluten free). It's less work than a garden, and it's only work every few weeks...maybe an hour? There's a lot of forgetting about it, which is perfect for kidding season. I also got a sealer, bags, filter patches, and injection ports, so there was some setup cost, but it was much cheaper than a garden. I sterilized things in my instant pot for about double the recommended time so I did not buy a pressure canner YET (I want one for the garden).
I wanted to grow lion's mane for my dad. I chickened out of the reishi he wanted because they are not delicious, but he's still going to do it.
I guess I could make a kit and sell it, but right now I'm not sterilizing the oak pellets right now because the bags are too big for my pressure cooker, so some of them bomb out and I figure I should use a LOT of the innoculated grain to seed it and I'm not sure that would scale cost effectively. If I was going to sell them I think I'd also want to have a setup to do that to have more certain successes. Some of my bags fail and I don't care because they're just compost and were cheap to make, not much effort involved.
