[Ag-eq] Anyone still on the list? Plants for the blind

[James Konechne]

I'd love to grow them!!
I read somewhere about possibly growing them on a toilet paper roll
soaked in nutrients, but don't remember much about it.


On 1/30/09, Laurie Porter <freespirit1 at tds.net> wrote:
> yes, we grow oysters and shiiatakes. We buy our spores online and anoculate
> them ourselves. Shiiatakes like hollowed elm to grow in. It took a while to
> get them going for a decent crop. We sell the mushrooms dried. There still
> hasn't been anyone who has had success in  commercially coltivating the
> delicious and elusive morales, but Wisconsin's full of them. They sell for
> incredible prices, but we buy them and dry them so folks can get them all
> year. We are not going to do it this year, because up here people don't mind
> paying $50 plus a pound for the fresh ones, but once the small season is
> over, farmers market shoppers don't want to get dried ones. Last year, we
> sold them to a local restaurant, but we lost money on them.
>
> Otherwise, mushrooms can become lucrative if you have the patience for them.
> ----- Original Message -----
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>> Has anyone grown mushrooms?
>>
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