Here is Jeff posing in front of the grill. The only lesson in grills we got from beer commercials. Since we don’t have a television, they’re old commercials. To get in the spirit of grilling, Jeff is enjoying a Fish Ale, which he generally does not drink, and acting like he knows what he is doing. Ugh, vegetarians! By this… Read more →

Here are some of the thousands of oyster mushrooms we found on alder logs in the forest outside our home. I made oyster mushroom stew, put them in spagetti sauce, dehydrated them cooked and raw–and we still had enough for the grill! Read more →

I came home to find these morels growing wild in my garden. Luckily they did not go to waste: we had learned enough about them to make a morel tofu scramble! Read more →

Here is Paul Stamets teaching us about the cultivation of gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. Paul’s books are considered by many as the bibles of mushroom growing. Read more →

Jeff and I recently attended a two-day seminar on mushroom cultivation presented by Fungi Perfecti, a grower of medicinal mushrooms near Olympia. Author and mushroom guru Paul Stamets along with Fungi Perfecti staff taught us tissue culture, spawn generation techniques, substrate preparation, inoculation techniques and strategies for maximizing yields. Mushrooms play a huge role in boosting our pets (and our… Read more →