Milkwood Permaculture are presenting this course in Sydney. Learn to clone mushrooms on to agar, make grain spawn, make sawdust and dowel spawn,...
Cats taste just like rabbits, lots of people eat them. They can be a useful component of a permaculture system. I would rather have Quolls, but...
I've made it a few times...boil some water, simmer your horehound-Marrubium vulgare, add some sugar and some aniseed or fennel and cardamon,...
This thread was about plants, so here's a few I've tried and liked as I travelled oz and lived with and learned from various indigenous mobs. I...
Sure, sometime soon I'll post a start to finish tutorial, the way I do it now. Be happy for you to add to it Speedy. Here are a few older grows....
I usually take a piece of mushroom tissue, and drop it onto enriched agar in a petri dish. Spores are more complicated. No cave, just bags in...
Hi Speedy, No, I don't have any agaricus cultures. Do you mean blazei? I fill the ute with spent bags from a commercial button mushroom farm,...
Thanks Speedy. I'm amazed at how well it works, with the newspaper. I've never had shiitake fruit so quickly. I don't know which strain it is,...
I sometimes use crushed eggshells, carrot pulp from juicing, left overs from dinner, stale cereals etc. as the substrate to King oysters on.
I grow these delicious mushies on cooked grains (wheat, rye, oats, brown rice etc.-either solo or in combo) and a bit of gypsum, which I place on...
Re: Has anyone tried cane toad legs? When I was studying Ag at uni back in the 80s, we had to dissect cane toads. Some bright spark decided to...
Re: Australian native caper I lost 3 out of 4 Capers to the white cabbage butterfly larvae. There's a few other native Capparis might be worth...
Re: what's your vote for the best permaculture animals? Bees.
Re: growing mushrooms Thanks mowman. I got started with "The Mushroom Cultivator" and "Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms" by Stamets....
Re: growing mushrooms No worries Barrymore. Check with your newspaper publishers to make sure they only use soy based inks. My local...
Re: growing mushrooms Hi Barry, Yes, Oysters are the easiest, and King Oysters are the best of that bunch, in my opinion. Spawn can be...
Re: growing mushrooms Hi Barry, There are many varieties of edible mushrooms, all have slightly different requirements. Just like plants, there...
Re: growing mushrooms The "Aware" washing powder helps kill bacteria in the bulk substrate, and is food for the mycelium! It's not essential,...
Re: growing mushrooms Hi all, I have started a small business making exotic mushroom spawn. Oyster mushrooms are easy. Shiitakes and other...
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