Sunday, June 3rd, Twin Pond hosted a Mushroom tutorial held by two guys named Ari and Steve.

Ari gave a presentation on foraging, and type of mushrooms that we can find in the area. Filled with inspiration the class took to the trails to forage and spot mushrooms in the forest beside and around our pond.

Good stuff was found, such as

Turkey Tail (medicinal & natural dye mushroom)

Artist Culk  (cool to draw on & dry)

Dryad’s Saddle (rad)

after foraging around, Steve taught us how to grow our own mushrooms through growing in mulch piles, or in logs

Steve is in the red.  other’s are the folks who came out for the class, people traveled from all over- even New York state

one way to grow your own mushrooms is by drilling holes 4 inches apart in a found log (the log must have been cut within 3 months, our longs we cut 3 weeks ago)- displayed on the left.  afterwards, you fill the holes with mycelium, then cover the holes with wax (a mixture of bees wax and candle wax) to keep the mycelium in place-displayed on the right.  everyone who joined the class was able to take home their own inoculated log to begin growing their mushrooms.  in one year, you soak your log for 24 hours once a week. by next year, you’ll have a log’s full!

Twin Pond on the other hand, got 40 logs.

(katie and jen drilling 2 out of the many)

 

get ready Vermont, there’s a new mushroom producer in town.