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To: Diana in Wisconsin
We cut some small oak trees a few weeks ago. Cut them into 3 foot pieces and stacked them on a pallet to keep them off the ground. Tomorrow will be cloudy and then rain after 3pm so we'll go out to the woods and get those 3 foot logs, bring them back, drill a bunch of 7/16" holes in them and inoculate them with shiitake mushroom spawn and seal with beeswax.

Stack on another pallet as we go and for now, set them behind the shop which faces North and doesn't get sun. When the trees leaf out, we'll find a shady spot in the woods because once summer comes, the back of the shop won't have enough shade. Even in our little valley, we might have to use a little shade cloth. Keep them from drying out in Summer and come Fall, we should have mushrooms.

Might try a little cultivated ginseng someday. It grows wild in a few places around here but never has on this property according to the old timers. There are plants in this area that people dig for roots that have value too.

When you've got forest, do Forest Gardening.

52 posted on 04/16/2022 3:54:01 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Pollard

Correction, Cheese-wax, not beeswax.


54 posted on 04/16/2022 4:32:56 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Pollard

We have fallen Elm trees, and a few still standing but dying out, and they grow wonderful Golden Oyster Mushrooms.

If the weather cooperates, we also get some healthy crops of Morel mushrooms. On lean years, those can go for $40 a pound!


62 posted on 04/17/2022 5:56:40 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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