Lovely! Yes it would be great to teach that for a living. I’d certainly show up to a class.

Cultivating mushrooms like that is a skill I’ve wanted to learn for a long time, I’ve seen it done with lions mane mushrooms, and man have I spent a fortune on dried capsules of those bad boys in supplement stores. I’d much rather save my wallet and grow them myself, but like you say, that’s absolutely the type of thing I’d benefit from just someone showing me IRL what to do, EVEN ONCE! Rather than trying to get it all together myself from a combination of foreign articles and YouTube videos.

I get some people could self teach that in a matter of minutes, but we’ve not all got brains like that, I know I don’t. What is it about skills that transfer so easily IN PERSON rather than through videos or books or “wikihows!”?

You’re also absolutely right about not presuming kids to be dummies, they get called “sponges,” and I say with good reason, every time I’m ranting away like a college professor to my lil 3 year old nephew about any random subject I’m fully aware he could go on to become a Phd in the subject in a couple of decades.

Thanks for a great post! Keep doing the superb work you’re doing. 🙏