• 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

• 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)

• Ash (2×100/20sm)
• Alder (1×100/20sm)
• Beech
• Birch

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

• 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)

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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/

• '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)

• 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)

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
• 1 x eggplant (try to find a substitute if you do not like it)
• 1 x zucchini (try to find a substitute if you do not like it)
• 1 x marjoram
• Compost (later on)

'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

• 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

• 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

• 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).

• 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'?

• The Non-Green (R)evolution

• Go Ask A Mushroom

• 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