Archive for 'Mushrooms'
Posted: August 3rd, 2008 by
Frank
Last year we skimmed along the edge of drought for most of the summer, and as a result the mushrooming stank. Despite many trips into the woods, we got a single not very full gallon freezer bag of black trumpets. The good news is that it was just enough on top of 2005’s spectacular stash
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Chanterelles, Food, Mushrooms, Sweet Teeth Mushroom, oyster.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2008 by
Lisa
I made a zero-mile meal for dinner tonight, after we went mushroom hunting in our woods and scored loads and loads of oyster mushrooms. We found a dead cherry tree just covered in them, and they were right at prime in both size and age. Sweet! Actually, oyster mushrooms are slightly sweet. We’ve found
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Food, Mushrooms, oyster.
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Posted: October 13th, 2007 by
Frank
Despite a week of rain, there are still no significant mushrooms (of any sort) in the woods. Even if it’s too late for the trumpets, there are many late fall species which are making themselves conspicuous by their absence. The exception is the honey mushrooms on the stumps in the clearing. Unfortunately, we don’t
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Posted under Chickens, Farm Life, Mushrooms, Sawmill.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2007 by
Frank
It’s ten days since the last entry. There’ve been no big developments, but much that might be worth remembering in next year, or in 2010. We’ve continued to check for mushrooms every two or three days. We caught one more small flush of trumpets (and three chanterelles) in good time, and found the remains
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Chanterelles, Chipper, Farm Life, Horse Housing, Mushrooms, Sheep, illness.
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Posted: September 13th, 2007 by
Frank
After three days of rain, we went out into the woods with high hopes, and we got some results. First we found the remnants of a small flush of black trumpets, on one side of the black trumpet mother lode. They were almost gone by, but we can’t be choosy this year, and we
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Posted under Allium, Black Trumpet Mushroom, Farm Life, Pond scoop, oyster.
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Posted: August 19th, 2007 by
Frank
I called SMG (who is now Champion) on Monday, and got some advice on the sawmill. (Yes, they now have bilingual tech support.) I’ll be writing some pages about maintaining the sawmill soon. There’s a lot that’s simply not in the manual. Anyway, the advice was on shimming to extend the length of the
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Posted under Farm Life, Honey Bees, Horse Housing, Horses, Mushrooms, Sawmill.
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Posted: August 13th, 2007 by
Lisa
Doesn’t it look like she is saying “what’s in here, Mom?” This girl is trouble! She is so curious, so brave, so loves to be naughty. She almost giggles at this game, and it is very easy to get her to play. All I have to do is go check for eggs, and there
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Posted under Horses, Mushrooms, Pearl, Polly, Prince.
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Posted: October 14th, 2004 by
Lisa
We’ve been piling up a lot of our wood chips behind the compost bins, mostly to keep down the weeds in an area that’s really just a utility area at this point. We have the sawmill there, and the compost bins, and I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do with it yet. I have a while to figure it out though, because we don’t have anywhere else to put the compost and sawmill yet. But anyway, in those woodchips there is a most curious mushroom growing. It’s got quite the scent – not unpleasant, but distinctive, and they are all through the wood chips. We aren’t sure what it is yet, but it’d be nice to find something yummy that grows in chips, because man do we have wood chips!
Posted under Chips, Mushrooms.
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Posted: October 6th, 2004 by
Lisa
A friend took us around the Monadnock region today, showing us how to spot Hens of the Woods. All of the mushroom gathering that we’ve been doing has been in our own woods or on Mushroom Walks sponsored by our local club. But it seems that Hens hang out at the base of fairly old,
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Posted under Hen of the Woods.
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Posted: January 16th, 2004 by
Frank
Even in midwinter there’s some gardening activity worth preserving. First the mushrooms. The enokitake had to get moved out of the fridge to the basement to make room for holiday food. Unfortunately stuff in the basement gets neglected, and we’ve had only one half-hearted flush. We’ve gotten two pretty good flushes from the pioppino
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Posted under Chips, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Grow lights, Mushrooms, Reviews, Seed Starting, Worm Castings, Worm Tea, Worms.
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