Other than Farm Blog

I have been trying to establish an outdoor mushroom culture directly in the ground, but not very successful so instead I started indoor culture and naturalize the outdoor patch from that. Here is some jar culture of Pleurotus ostreatus.  This is an easy mushroom to grow.  In fact, this batch got contaminated with green mold, but miraculously recovered and mycelium completely dominated the substrate afterword.  This gives me a clue about contamination and succession of mushroom mycelium.  Natural environment is more complex array of microorganisms and potentially contaminating ones, but as long as the growing condition shifts to what's more desired by mushrooms, then the previous contaminant organisms just give their place to succeeding mushroom.  In this case, easy sugar and starch got consumed by green mold and some bacteria, but once they are consumed, it no longer needed to be there and mushroom that can decompose more complex fiber and lignin was called for. This condi

I have been reading this book on online book sites below, but got tired of staring at computer monitor, so I finally bought the book. Another title: "Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or: Permanent Agriculture in China; Korea; and Japan" Read online?  go to the end of this page. Book Description: F. H. King lived before petroleum era of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and visited China, Korea and Japan and put his observation of their permaculture system and organic farming practices into this great book. Lots of in-depth look on many different aspects of local lifestyle.  Many photos and illustrations accompany the text to make it easily digestible. There are many examples of low tech tools and techniques that they use in Japan, China and Korea although it might be too costly for us now, I am sure that we can get good insight. The book also discusses not only how they had sustained cultivation and farm-community designs for over thousands of years, but also means