A cluster of wine cap beauties near the kiwis. If you read the site you know we have mushrooms ‘planted’ in logs, straw bales, and garden trenches. There are maitakes by the big rock, chicken of the woods in a Douglas Fir stump, and four oysters,…
When the snow finally melted off the garden this spring, we could see our raised beds with heaped piles of mulch on top. We set out to get the beds ready to plant, distributing the big pile of straw and manure and composted plant parts from the previous year that…
If you’ve talked to me in the past 4 years you probably know I’m obsessed with mushrooms. It started when I moved to McCall, ID. From spring to fall, the forest is filled with morels, boletes, and coral mushrooms, and hericiums and oysters hang from the trees. I love the…