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Our goal is to teach and empower others different sustainable solutions to grow a healthier community.
- Eco design & build
- Edible Landscape Design & Installation
- Fruit Trees, Orchards, Pruning
- Compost
- Water Systems
- Bamboo

01/16/2023

Aerial view of our homestead site 🦅 Taking drone footage yesterday reminded us of how incredible this area is. So excited to start building our home this year 🔨

11/01/2022

We’ve been too busy working to slow down and enjoy the fruits of our labor. Luckily these shiitakes popped up and reminded me to stop and smell the fungus. One of the many reasons we are moving to the woods is to slow down and focus on the things that really matter. Friends, community, food and the forest, this is why we’re pushing to build our homestead. We’re getting closer on home design and look forward to sharing more of this journey.

04/02/2022

Planting lots of trees this spring season 🌳

We’re trialing lots of different nut trees for food & timber: hazelnuts, chestnuts, hickories, pecans & butternuts to start off with more to come 🌰

We’re also adding some fruit trees to our forest edge orchard and look forward to experiments in cultivation over these coming seasons. We’ll be trialing wild plums, crab apples, goumi berry, and one of my all time favorites, Asian Pears 🤤

03/25/2022

We hosted a great group of folks for our first fungi workshop on our land this past weekend. Lots of great discussions and stories w/ fellow “myco-neers” 🍄
We covered different outdoor cultivation techniques for shiitakes, stropharia and oysters, and their uses for food production and myco-remediation. We had a such an encouraging response that we will be planning a fall workshop focusing on myco-forestry and myco-remediation.
Stay tuned ✌🏻❤️🍄

03/06/2022

Planting season is underway, lots of trees and pollinator plants going in the ground today 🐝 Pine trees, mulberries, elderberries, comfrey, rue, salvias, borage and lots of yarrow. Food, medicine & habitat, not just for us, but the whole ecosystem.

Last photo is of our “myco-mulch” experiment. The stropharia spawn from is colonizing the wood chip piles that we are using to mulch around our plantings.

Our hillside goes through a lot of runoff during rain events, and with it goes a lot of topsoil. There are many ways to remediate this, and one of the most effective ways is to increase organic matter in the soil, one of the many benefits of mycelium. Studies have shown that a 1% increase in organic matter can help soils hold approximately 20,000 gallons more water / acre ! 💦 Combined w/ cover cropping, tree planting, broad forking & swales, these mycelial networks will help build organic matter and provide nutrients to stabilize this hillside.

We are so excited be getting more roots & mycelium in the ground on our little slice of paradise. Stay tuned for more experiments! 🌱🌸🍄🌳

02/06/2022

Got out the “frickin’ laser” and started some surveying on the land. This is the first of many berm and swale beds that will be planted on contour lines. When you plant and build soil along contour (ridge lines that are level across a slope) you can capture and divert rainwater as it goes down slope, remediating runoff and the need for irrigation. This bed was also broad forked and sheet mulched, with an added layer of wood chips inoculated w/ stropharia spawn from 🍄

I’ll be experimenting w/ different chestnut trees and understory plants in this bed 🌰 🌱 I planted a Chinese hybrid seedling and have some American chestnut hybrids coming as well. Daffodils planted around the trees provide extra critter protection as they are noxious to moles and voles. I’ve also added comfrey, walking onions and various pollinators to bring beneficial nutrients and bugs to the garden.

✌🏻🌱 🍄🐝 🦋 🌳

01/17/2022

Our future homestead site !

01/09/2022

Snow day and site planning walkabouts ☃️ Spent the day wandering around the woods with friends. Observing, listening and pontificating about what these sites could be in the future. We are very fortunate to live in a lush and diverse forest that we will protect and interact with. Food, fuel, water & medicine are abundant and we will learn how to harvest it with respect and gratitude.

We are very excited for the tree planting season. We’ve got lots of wood chips and compost to start prepping planting sites. We will inoculate our wood chip piles w/ Stropharia mushroom spawn and use these myco mulch rings around our tree plantings. Too many benefits to list here, but some include :
-Symbiotic nutrient exchange
- Water retention and filtration
- Long term soil building (earthworms love mycelium)
-Delicious mushrooms for us and other critters.

🍄 🪱 🌱 💧 🌳

What are y’all planning and planting this year ?

01/01/2022

New year, new plan, same resolutions. Be a better human, observe, be patient and plant more trees 🌳 Starting to sketch out design ideas for the ever evolving food forest. We will be coppicing some oak trees for mushroom logs & firewood and then we’ll be adding lots of fruit and nut trees into the understory.

Lots of chestnuts, hazelnuts, hickories, pecans & citrus going in this year! 🌰 🍋

10/03/2021

First shiitakes of the fall season starting to pop 😍 These sweet gum bolts were inoculated this past March w/ some vigorous spawn from .
Mycelium is starting to run and colonize!✌🏻❤️🍄👽

05/03/2021

I’ve been growing mushrooms for about 6 years now and I still feel the same little kid excitement when they pop up 🍄 Our shiitakes are turning into monsters with all this rain 🌧

04/12/2021

“All that the rain promises and more” - David Arora

The shiitake logs have exploded with all this rain 🌧 🍄 I moved the logs into a bamboo grove, next to a spring, and they have been producing better than ever. I left a log I inoculated over 5 years ago in the same area and it is still producing. No force fruiting, just letting the rain and mycelium do the work for me. The biggest mushroom I pulled off this week was 6” in diameter, a personal best record for our logs. This is a wide strain type from mushroom mountain aka ✌🏻❤️ 🍄

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