== Natalia Borissova's working notes about Non Green Gardening (NGG) during 'Gardener and Machinist in Residence' at Time's Up. Linz. 2012==

==== Visit#1 14.-18.3.12 aims to: ====

  * Meet the site and analyze the given environment from the 'fungamental' perspective (sun/shadow, wind, humidity, type of plants, trees, garden wastes, inhabitants, conditions for myco/perma-oriented creativity) 
  * Determine suitable, desirable mushroom varieties and locations for the next visit devoted to the practical integration and association of mushrooms and plants 
  * Inoculate some available logs for the indoor/outdoor colonization 
  * Sketch out NGG timeline, milestones and 'events' up to October 2012
  * Harvest some more logs
  * Theoretical research 
  * Process documentation along the way

=== List for materials making a mushroom log indoor:===
 
  * Logs (hardwood)
  * Sawdust and wood chips (hardwood)
  * Mushroom spawn 
  * Wood twist drill/10 mm
  * Beeswax
  * Paintbrush
  * Mallet (preferably with a rubber head)
  * Some covering material for the logs to keep moist (transparent garbage bags or so)
  * 3-4 flower pots (or any found containers, or Pflanz-taschen set) big enough to be used for putting 1/3 logs upright into it to keep indoor.
  * Chainsaw 
  * 3% Hydrogen peroxide 
  * Moisture meter/Feuchtigkeitsmesser (optional)
  * Heat source around ( to melt the beeswax)

=== Host-logs available for the visit 14-18.3.12 ===

  * Ash (2x100/20sm)
  * Alder (1x100/20sm)
  * Beech 
  * Birch

=== Mushroom spawns ordered ===

  * 1 **Changeable agaric** mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs
  * 1 **Nameko**, 50 inoculated plugs
  * 1 **Elm oyster** mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs

=== Matching type of wood to type of mushroom ===

  * __**Changeable agaric**__/Beech, Birch and Alder
  (Oak, __Ash__, Poplar, Willow, Edible chestnut – possible; Conifers - less)
  * __**Nameko**__/__Beech, Oak__, Birch
  (Poplar, Willow, healthy wood from fruit trees – possible)
  * __**Elm oyster**__/Beech, Poplar, Linden (lime), Maple, Willow, Aspen, __Alder and Birch__.
  (do not grow well on Oak)

==== Meeting notes (Tim, Marc, Natalia) ====

Beginning of May: garden and mushrooms
Inside: quickly growing. Multiple types, different methods and substrates
Calendar of various results. Keeping track of what works: 
   * Wood type
   * Mushroom type 
   * Location
   * Method
   * Substrate recipes
   * How to sit the mushroom logs, type of bed layered, content and construction

==== Plans ====

   * Out the back, narrow, playground, different beds, i.e. multiple structures of layers, different logs. Burying some logs in the ground (completely and 1/3) to soak up water from the ground. Danger of animals digging the beds up.
      * 20-30 cm wide, depth of wood chips/sawdust 2 x 5-10cm
      * Inoculated logs completely buried in soil, horizontally
      * Inoculated logs upright, 1/3 flower pots indoor and in soil outside
      * Substrates
      * Mushroom types: Elm oyster, (King stropharia, Shaggy mane - next visit/garden), Nameko, Shiitake (slimy and delicious), Leion's mane, Changeable agaric. Mixing mushroom mysilia is not good. 
      * Some logs partially buried (soil, pots, in/outdoor) first meeting
   * Tomato beds: half-half wooden chips-sawdust, mycelium and soil (pizza-bed). Layers for mycelium: soil, wood chips, inoculated grains, wood chips, paper/card with holes, soil with plants into the holes: tomatoes, basil,... extra foods, e.g. dog food/cat soup should be good for mushrooms
   * Make connection with Mykologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Botanischer Garten in Linz and local fungi-addicted people

==== Timeplan ====

   * 14-18.3.12 
      * Inoculate the logs we have and store them where appropriate.
      * Some logs buried - need some sawdust.
      * Prepare the first log-beds out the back
      * Chainsaw to size
      * Woodchips with the electric plane and pasteurize them

   * Mid April fresh sawdust and wood chips - 2 weeks beforehand is optimal. 3 weeks less so but okay.
   * Also collect used espresso grounds.

   * 1st week in May
     * 7-10 days
     * Setting up more or less everything!
     * Workshop on 5th May - 'Spawn-2-substrate techniques, low-tek propagation'
     * Materials all prepared: spawn, logs, beeswax, chips, sawdust, coffee grounds
     * Workshop for people to come and take home a next generation
     * Workshop people making the logs for us and maybe taking one with them - knowledge exchange
     * Indoor wood chips and grains - this is for the June 'clone party'
     * Get in contact with Leos friend (mushroom expert) - get details off Leo/set a time for an informal meeting

   * Third phase depends on when the mushrooms come. 2 weeks later for indoor. Outdoor will be even later (2 month) - late July through October.
   * Logs might take 0.5 years to start and be (fully) productive.
     * Cloning event in June - say around 18-27 June
     * We will see the mycelium 2 weeks beforehand. It looks like a cake. Then shock it (light, maybe cold), open it slightly (fresh air), wait a few days 3-4, then pinning. Then 7 days to the mushroom. 5-7 days of mushrooms before they dry out. 
     * Cloning from stems.
     * Main event mid/end September. Details to follow.
   
   * Ongoing - every 2-3 years beds expending. Logs can produce 2-8 years depending on the type of mushroom, wood, size of the log and conditions.
==== Practical implementations ==== 

   * Outdoor: 
     * Elm/2 x Beech/plugs (upright, 1/3 into the soil)
     * Changeable agaric/1 x Ash, 1 x Birch, 1 x Alder/plugs (upright, 1/3 into the soil)
     * Nomeko/2 x Beech/plugs, 1 x Birch (long configuration/soil)
     * Leon's mane/2 x Beech/old grains (upright, 1/3, soil)

   * Indoor:   
     * Oysters/sawdust + coffee/stem butts (flower pot)
     * Leon's mane/sawdust + coffee/(old)grains (log upright 1/3, flower pot)
     * Changeable agaric/plugs/1 x Birch, 1 x Alder (log upright 1/3, flower pot)
     * Oysters/sawdust + coffee/stem butts (flower pot)
     * Shiitake/sawdust + coffee/grains (flower pot)
     * Elm/sawdust/plugs (2 x toilet paper)

Pix: 

http://aa-vv.org/node/147

http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157629601830295/


==== Visit#2 4-13.5 aims to: ====
 
  * 'SHROM-SHROOM' WORKSHOP: Some non-sterile methods and simple procedures, fast-to-grow mushroom-varieties, experimental substrates and growing mediums for starting up your potential non-green-garden at home, yard and any other in/outdoor habitat. 
  * NGG indoor
  * NGG inter-planted with GG. Bed-culture outdoor. (Artificial beds in front - experimental 'hanging myco-bed' with (plants/kitchen greens and mushrooms interplanted)
  * Myco bed-culture outdoor ('Stopharia path', Stopharia straw bed, 'Hugelkultur raised bed'=potato interplanted with mushrooms oysters)

=== Material for the workshop and indoor garden: ===

  * Mushrooms spawn 
  * Fresh (Wheat) straw
  * Hardwood chips
  * Hardwood, sawdust or Hartholz-Pellets
  * Hardwood logs, 10-20 cm diameter x 50-60 cm long
  * Coconut coir/kokosfaser
  * Lime (limestone)/calcium carbonate (CaCO3)/garten kalk/kalkhydrat (affects soil pH)
  * Garden gypsum aka calcium sulfate (CaSO4)
  * Recycled pelleted paper fiber (optional)
  * Used coffee grains 
  * Vermiculite (optional)
  * Paper/nursery pots (optional)
  * Paper plates or plastic plates
  * Ordinary trash bags (transparent)
  * 3% peroxide solution
  * Old cotton pillow (to soak straw and w. chips)
  * Paper grocery or paper lawn sized bags (to cover totem-logs)
  * Plastic bags, black or white, sized (to completely enclose totem-logs and
close over the top)
  * Bran(Kleie)
  * Hay mini-bales (optional)
  * Color pHast strips with a pH 4 to 10 range to measure the soil pH
  * Horse poo (optional)
  * Cow poo (optional)
  * Chicken manure (optional)
  * Wild bird seed
  * Vegetable oil (optional)
  * Kelp meal (optional)

//to collect://

  * Cardboard boxes/egg-boxes
  * Egg shells
  * Coffee (clean pot/bag. do not mix it with anything else. keep it covered)
  * Newspapers
  * Cotton waste (cloth etc)
  * Containers/Laundry baskets with holes
  * Human/animal urine (the fresh one;)
  * Dry (oak) leaves (parks, forest)

=== Artificial mixed-garden in front - 'hanging myco-beds with kitchen garden and mushrooms interplanted === 

For instance:
  * Spawn (Stropharia)
  * Fresh (Wheat) straw
  * Fresh hardwood chips (up to 6 months’ old Alder, Maple, Birch, Cottonwood, Ash no more than 20% of pile)
  * Cardboards
  * plants can be used: 
  * 3 x tomatoes 
  * 3 x basil
  * 1 x oregano
  * 1 x thyme
  * 1 x garlic/onion
  * <del>1 x eggplant</del> (try to find a substitute if you do not like it)
  * <del>1 x zucchini</del> (try to find a substitute if you do not like it)
  * 1 x marjoram
  * Compost (later on)

=== Beds in the back of the building === 

// 'Stopharia path'//

  * Spawn (Stropharia rugusoannulata)
  * Mixed hardwood (work best) 
  * Dog or/and cat food soup as a fertilizer (optional)
  * Weeds/cardboard

//'Stopharia straw bed'//

  * spawn (Stropharia rugusoannulata)
  * fresh wheat straw
  * cover (old sesame bags, cloth, cardboards, grass shade)

//'Hugelkultur raised bed' - potato interplanted with mushrooms (oysters)//

//We can try to experiment with hugelkultur raised (up to 2m high) bed
potato interplanted with mushrooms (for urban conditions = it can be built
on top of bare ground, concrete, gravel or hanging..)//

  * Rotting wood/branches/woody debris
  * Leaves, straw, woodchips, manure, and or compost and soil
  * Wood ash
  * Weeds
  * Hedge clippings 
  * Garden soil 
  * Coffee grounds
  * Compost and or manure
  * Diluted pee
  * Crushed egg shells
  * Some logs for the edges (can be mushrooms inoculated)
  * Mulch inoculated with gourmet mushrooms 
  * Veggies

=== Mushroom species ordered: === 

  * 3 x Brown stew fungus, straw spawn 1 litre
  * 1 x Oyster mushroom "Florida" 1 litre
  * 1 x Pleurotus pulmonarius 1 litre
  * 2 x Pink oyster mushroom, grain spawn 1 litre
  * 1 x Elm oyster mushroom, grain spawn 1 litre
  * 1 x Oyster mushroom, grain spawn 1 litre

=== Inoculation workshop schedule: === 

  * 1-2 pm - short intro to mushrooms and 'home-cultivation TEK'
  * 2-3.30 pm - hand's on participative demonstrations of log-inoculation methods (bolt, totem and wedge)
  * 30 min - coffee break (to 'produce' coffee grains for the 2d part of the workshop)
  * 4 – 4.30 pm hands-on demonstrations of inoculation 
  * 4.30 – 6/7 pm - inoculation party = 'make your hands clean' experimenting with several recipes of the bulk substrates and mushroom species for the indoor and outdoor growing. 

More details and images at:

[[http://aa-vv.org/node/153]]
[[http://aa-vv.org/node/38]]
[[http://aa-vv.org/node/151]]


==== Visit#3 23.-30.5.12 aims to: ====

  * Maintenance of the fungal colonies indoor: transferring inoculated mediums from the incubation room/period to the growing-room/period and birthing the fungal mycelium.
  * Maintenance of the fungal colonies outdoor (logs and mushroom beds at the backside of the building).
  * Finishing the experimental design of the mushroom-hugelkulture bed. 
  * The interplanting of mushrooms with plants at the suspended and hugel-bed/s.
  * Theoretical research and process documentation along the way.
  * Writing a set of instructions on 'how to maintain in/outdoor mushrooms in order to support the few more indoor-flushes and prepare for the outdoor-fruiting in middle summer. (I'll be away till the middle of August).

==== Visit#4 08.->12.10 and 21.->22.10.12 ====

  * Over viewing and organizing of all the 'myco-experience' @ TU-and-Home NGG into on-/off line smth.
  * 'Lets have a nice "fest"' = (un-)presentation while harvesting, cooking and consuming fruits of all over summer labor of NGG and GG.
  * Preparing beds and logs for winter.
  * What's 'next'?

==== Evaluation: ====

  * [[non_green_revolution|The Non-Green (R)evolution]]

==== Some thoughts: ====

  * [[Go Ask A Mushroom|Go Ask A Mushroom]]

==== Related: ====

  * http://www.timesup.org/dinner/nataliaborissova
  * http://www.timesup.org/nggharvest
  * http://www.timesup.org/ngg/inoculate
  * http://www.timesup.org/GMiR-NataliaBorrisova
  * http://www.flickr.com/groups/1937536@N20/pool/tags/mushrooms/
  * http://www.timesup.org/resilients
  * [[my summer in an urban garden]]