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My first guess is that she has a stash nest that you don't know about...

I have been doing a lot more reading. It is very important to have no ammonia smell to the compost before inoculating it with the spores. The mushrooms actually get a lot of their nutrition from the dead bodies of the bacteria that converted the ammonia out of the compost. It is going to take...

I will be selling at Farmer's Market this summer, and I am starting some write-ups for some of the more unusual produce. I found this amazing website that actually has data for things like New Zealand spinach and watercress. http://www.nutritiondata.com/ Put your food in the search, or go by...

I'm working on it. I just found this link: http://www.americanmushroom.org/agaricus.pdf and this is the company that makes the kits, they list how they make the compost: http://www.mushroomadventures.com/compost.html I can see from this that my original try will need to be changed up a bit...

I saw a segment on TV that suggested using fingernail polish as an air barrier to suffocate the wart. I tried it on one on my wrist - it seemed to be working but that is a place that bends so much I couldn't keep the stuff on well enough. At least with the polish you could get a shade that...

Way on down in Grant County!

What is special about this flour? I have been wanting to try a graham cracker, but in the huge list of "want to try" it hasn't made it to the top, if you know what I mean! ;)

When I make crackers I have been using a pizza roller to cut them... it should work here as well. Cut them on the baking sheet to avoid having to move the thin cracker dough.

:love That is a score to make my heart go ping!

Please keep us posted! I had thought of wood grown mushrooms, and after research I don't think they will work well with our lack of humidity.

You are so right, there is no way the kits could produce a profit to sell at market. I am actually going to try mushroom farming on a small scale. I got the kit to make sure I had a good stock of spores. We went today and got a free truck load of horse manure that I mixed with straw and...

As soon as January hits I know it's time to do the orchard tree pruning. I feel this nasty nagging feeling until it's all done (there are only 10 trees so it's really not that bad). I told DH the other day that we need more apple trees, so I guess it will be more work in the future. He looked...

Great! I was thinking about baking them to sell, for the gluten-free crowd in particular. I'll try a batch and make DH be the taste tester, boy the things he has to put up with being married to me... :gig

I found all the 5 gal buckets I want from the back of the local Chinese fast food place. They are Kikoman soy sauce buckets, and it takes a bleach soaking to get the smell out. They were very happy to have me haul them away.

I just got the portabella kit in, it is the same supplier company out of CA but I bought through Territorial Seeds. I ordered the book "Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home" Paul Stamets; Paperback; $23.07 from Amazon. I have great hopes that I can keep the...

Not pompous at all! We are getting ready to scramble very hard this summer at farming. We just don't trust the economic situation at all right now... does anybody? We feel strongly that it is a time to be proactive financially so that we don't get driven into debt by anything, the stars or...

No flour? How is the texture? How about keeping ability? You have my curiosity up!

:clap I do understand the excitement! :bow So please tell us, where did you find such a deal to get so many lids?

In addition to what has already been said: I would caution any inexperienced gardener against heirloom seeds for the most part. When people speak about heirloom varieties, they can literally come from all over the world, and have adapted over time to a vast array of differing local conditions...

Well I think I am finally ready for my title, if you all approve: Frugal Vegetarian Farmer I had a lot of trouble with just "vegetarian farmer" because that doesn't say anything about the other big parts of our different way of life but "frugal" kinda says it all... From Wikipedia: Strategies...