I woke up this morning and thought: “I should have planted those mushrooms after all.” Every winter, I keep a list of all the things I need to research or accomplish before the growing season begins. This past year’s list included getting a farm sign designed and installed, finding better farm insurance, developing a business plan for the native plant enterprise, and learning how to grow mushrooms. As it tends to do though, life got busy, and I decided to push the mushroom-growing research to next winter. I figured it would probably be too dry again this year to get them going given that fungi thrive in wet conditions, and I wasn’t up for watering logs inoculated with mushroom spores all summer long. But now I think: Why didn’t I do it?!! We could have been enjoying homegrown shiitakes and oyster mushrooms by fall this year! Of course, Simon had to write me this haiku when he heard me talking about the mushrooms:
So much rain this week
Be careful what you wish for
It was dry last year
Ha! Ha! Touché, Simon, touché.
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