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

[Laurie Porter]

Check out www.thefarm.com  It's where we buy our spores.
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From: "James Konechne" <jakon22 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Anyone still on the list? Plants for the blind


> 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 -----
>> From: "The Crowd" <the_crowd at cox.net>
>> To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 5:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Anyone still on the list? Plants for the blind
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone grown mushrooms?
>>>
>>> Atty
>>>
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