Building Unity Farm - The Mushroom Harvest Begins

Last night was 39 degrees and we're wrapping up all the projects of summer since fall officially begins this Sunday.We've picked our early apples (Honeycrisp and MacIntosh) and are watching our late apples (Empire) ripen quickly.Our blueberries and raspberries are already preserved.Squash, beans, and root vegetables are picked and sitting in our drying racks.We're finishing the construction of our hoop house for winter vegetables (more about that next week).All our summer babies have been born - 73 guinea fowl in 3 batches.   We've moved the 4 week olds into the coop and sold the second batch to a farm near Rhode Island.  The third batch will be going to a farm in central Massachusetts.We'll have alpaca babies next summer.Before the weather turns too cold, we're finishing the inoculation of the logs we cut this year and harvesting mushrooms from logs we inoculated in the spring such as the oyster mushrooms shown above.    We have three mushroom growing yards on the farm. The first is in a grove of pine trees just outside our wetland border.   It's cool, shady and moist.    It has 48 poplar logs inoculated with two species of oyster mushroomsPoHu - This oyster strain is the most “wide range” of Oyster strains with multiple fruitings throughout the growing season, including summer. PoHu is a heavy producer and grows many ocher to white colored mushrooms in thick clusters.Grey Dove - This Oyster strain is prolific and reliable. Steel b...
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