Myco-Mutiny

This weekend we quietly laid the foundations at the community mushroom garden.

The first outdoor mushroom growing workshop took place, small group, hands on.

At the same time, the space has shifted. The shed is up and has a roof, the area is now clearly defined, and the community mushroom garden is no longer an idea, it’s something you can walk up to and build on.

The first beds have been set:
a wine cap bed settling into the soil,
a blue oyster straw tower starting its cycle,
and black oysters joining the mix.

It’s a simple start, but it’s the right one. Built with people, not just for them.

No photos this time. Sometimes you’re too busy doing the work to document it. That’s fine.

Next step is to keep building, keep growing !

If you want to be part of it, stay close.

Back in September I spoke about building a community mushroom garden.

Then winter hit. Things slowed down, as they do.

I went down to yesterday to catch up ahead of this week end workshop on the 27th, and Kevin showed me what’s been happening in the background.







Honestly, it caught me off guard.

The shed is up.
The beds are in.
The space is real.

Volunteers have been putting in the work quietly, just showing up and building it.

This weekend, during the workshop, we’ll be building more beds live and starting to develop the area for growing wine cap mushrooms.

What started as an idea is now something tangible.

Now it’s time to keep pushing it forward.

Working with what’s available.

Turn a pre-cooked wholegrain rice pouch into a quick grain setup, ad an injection port and a simple filter patch made of micropore tape !

If you’ve got liquid culture but no grain ready, this is one way to start playing around without a full setup.

Not contamination-proof, but it can give you a clean starting point to understand the process.