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                           Our Wray-ward Interests

            Mushrooms and Other Fungi

            Growing mushrooms and foraging for wild ones have become new endeavors for me, just because I like fresh mushrooms, and traipsing around the woods.


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            These are amongst the nicest folks on the internet.  They have never failed to reply to an online inquiry.  Besides attending several of Tradd Cotter's presentations in various venues, I own his book, "Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation Simple to Advanced and Experimental" and their "Mushroom Mountain Growing Manual"; they are my sole supplier of mushroom spawn and fruiting kits. 


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            A little research reveals that mushrooms are very nutritious, with a variety of flavors and colors which adds zest to your dishes.  Since all raw mushrooms are almost impossible to digest, cooking is essential.  Amongst the wild mushrooms in our neighborhood are the beautiful red/orange Chicken of the Woods (I'm holding one in the pics), a prime edible, the Morrells of springtime, Lion's Mane, White Coral, Dresden's Saddle (a consolation prize for unlucky Morrell hunters), and many others.  Medicinal mushrooms abound in the forests around our house.  I have a log with Hemlock Reishi from which I make a tincture and take twice daily as a health supplement.  The list of benefits for Reishi is very long, and it is one of the most researched mushrooms.  I have a log with a Chicken of the Woods fruiting regularly.  I harvested almost five pounds of mushroom from the one log this past year.  Picked in season, many mushrooms can be dried and stored for future use.


            Besides the wild ones around we can grow several species.  I have grown White Oyster mushrooms on poplar logs outside, and cardboard in my basement.  Oyster mushrooms and King Stropharia can be grown in straw bales and wood chips in our garden.  I impregnated several hemlock stumps with Reishi plugs. I cut them because they had died, and the lumber is quite good for construction.


            Besides all the culinary and medicinal benefits of our fungal acquaintances, the value of fungi to the planet is beyond imagination.  Literally thousands of species of plants and animals cannot survive without their presence.  Fungi is capable of cleaning toxic waste, plastics, as well as purifying contaminated water.  Symbiotic relationships with trees and other plants are just one way fungi literally feeds our vegetation, wild and cultivated. 

             
            Pesticides can destroy these fragile relationships. Just one more reason to pay attention to what we add to our environment, for whatever reason.  Humans are the one species that can destroy the earth, and climate related influences are perhaps the least likely to do so.  We'll probably destroy other life forms on which our survival depends before the climate really becomes catastrophic. 


            External link opens in new tab or windowSave the Bees

            Courtesy Fungi.com


            This website is a wonderful source of information about fungi, their place in nature, and their helpfulness to  humans and the rest of life in general.


            Paul Stamets, founder of Fungi.com and a leading researcher of fungi, is working on help for the declining bee population.  Since we have our own bees, we are most interested in his work.   We just look after them, help if we can and, hope for the best.  We only take honey in the spring AFTER the hive has survived the winter on its own food.


            Our bee beginnings



            IT’S BLOOMING!  Actually it’s fruiting!  

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            Hemlock Log  Cut Three Years Ago

            This hemlock log was cut over three years ago when I cut several trees which had died.  I had the other logs sawmilled, and sold  about 1200 board feet of beautiful lumber.   


            When I started to load the log, I noticed a deep red object on

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            The Original Reishi


            the bottom side of it.  It turned out to be a Reishi mushroom the size of my hand.  I harvested it, and then set the log in its present location atop two end pieces from a couple of the other logs.      


            Actually the mushrooms went

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            through a colonizing stage (for three years) and now they are fruiting.  In this way the mush-room will produce spores by the millions of which some will begin the process on other trees in the process of dying. 


            The Reishi does not usually

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            colonize already dead trees, unless it is very recently deceased.  Once the Reishi is done with the tree, other fungi (a small white shelf polypore) will join with other organisms to finish the process of turning the tree into usable food for other life forms.





            I also have an oak log which I brought home after harvesting the Chicken of the Woods on the left!  And, I know of another piece of oak from which I harvested the one on the right… another project getting it home. 





             This can happen when you do not pay attention while expanding some Oyster mushroom

            mycelium on cardboard in my basement! 

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            You get to eat some… and,

             then continue to expand the mycelium for use in building a bed in the garden area.   



            Wray-ward Gardening


            For the past couple years Kitty and I have been experimenting with our garden areas.  Yes, that is plural.

            Originally, we started by using the area over our septic field as a place to "hold" flowers, shrubs, and fruit trees until the house was mostly completed. 

            Then we fenced in a 40' X 100' area, and with the help of a neighbor ( he used it mostly for himself for two years), and began to grow vegetables. 

            It wasn't the best place as there were a  couple spots where the ground water kept it too wet to do anything until late in the spring.

            So... we had another neighbor trench along the outside of our two long fences and created a wetland pond beside the garden. 

            We also had him trench along an adjoining driveway to drain a very wet area, clear the shrub growth, creating a one acre meadow,

            and construct a new driveway. 

            Then, we had him clear another area approximately 1 acre in size with the intention of growing sorghum for making sorghum syrup (molasses). 

            Of course, things rarely go as planned, so now we're on option two, maybe three from the original plan.

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            The 40' X 100' garden area has gone through several transitions... now 1/2 is raised beds which has progressed from mounds to beds with frames.

            We have raised vegetables, flowers and herbs (some wild, volunteer) on this half.

            Two of the beds are covered by an experimental "greenhouse", which has worked better than expected.

            The other half of the garden area is in process of becoming a permanent herb, flower, shrub garden.

            We can grow row crops like corn and beans there also, currently.  That shall cease as the larger cleared area becomes our main gardening area. 


            These are our very first harvested vegetables (Pak Choy and Michihili) on January 23, 2020 from our greenhouse.

            Stir fry and Kimchi coming up!

             
              


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            "The richer we have become materially, the poorer we  (have) become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers."

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