This morning as we went on a walk to see if the nearby bridges were under water from all this rain, Ini spied a delightful sight!
Oyster mushrooms!
At our homestead, Mountain Jewel, we're allll about reducing workloads and increasing abundance of our harvests. We call this Passive Permaculture Gourmet. Read on to see what we mean!
Some of you may remember that we had visited a local organic mushroom production facility, bought some mushrooms there and brought home some "spent" mushroom logs.
These logs consist of myceliated (mushroom inoculated) sawdust made of millet and rye. We mulched with them by taking 10 minutes to unload them from the truck around the base of newly planted pecan trees, mulberries and wild false indigo shrubs. We had already mulched these trees with planar shavings from our local sawmill and that was all!
As mentioned above, it's been an incredibly rainy spring thus far and we were so blessed to see some fruits from the logs this morning! It is our hope that the mycelium will go further and inoculate into the planar shavings and continue coming back.
Let us just say however how happy this made us: I think you can see it in the video!!
Breakfast of spinach, eggs, and oyster mushrooms all from the land!
This is the basis of WHY WE LOVE PERMACULTURE. We set up systems that require little to no effort and take care of themselves. From this, we keep the roots of the trees/shrubs cool, supress weeds and retain moisture while building humus in the soil. Mushrooms on top of that are a WIN-WIN!
Just look at these delicious Oyster mushrooms that were FREE & required very little effort!!
