Growing mushrooms on stumps
Did
you know that you can inoculate
stumps with edible mushrooms soon after you cut the trees down?
Since the roots are buried in the moist soil, the stump will stay damp
enough for the mycelium to run through the wood, then mushrooms will
pop out of the cracks. After a few years of creating mushrooms,
the stump will have broken down into good compost, and the mushrooms
might
even spread into the soil of your garden and help your vegetables grow.
Sadly, I didn't know
this five years ago when we cleared our garden area, so the mushrooms
coming out of our stumps are of dubious edibility (though they are
quite beautiful.) I wish I'd been reading my blog when I started
working on the farm! (Although a time loop like that might do
more harm than would be merited by a few extra mushrooms.)
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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