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resilients:non-green-gardening [2012-03-10 13:19] – [Mushroom-log culture] 188.106.98.115resilients:non_green_gardening_notes [2013-02-12 04:28] (current) – [Natalia Borissova's working notes about Non Green Gardening (NGG) during 'Gardener and Machinist in Residence' at Time's Up. Linz. 2012] alkan
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-gstocuI 1671,) +== Natalia Borissova's working notes about Non Green Gardening (NGG) during 'Gardener and Machinist in Residence' at Time's Up. Linz. 2012== 
-Howe + 
-==== Mushroom-log culture ==== +==== Visit#1 14.-18.3.12 aims to: ==== 
-=== Mushroom-log materials (List for materials making a mushroom log:)===+ 
 +  * 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 +  * Logs (hardwood) 
-  * Spawn (up to me) +  * Sawdust and wood chips (hardwood) 
-  * Wood twist drill/12 mm+  * Mushroom spawn  
 +  * Wood twist drill/10 mm
   * Beeswax   * Beeswax
   * Paintbrush   * Paintbrush
-  * Mallet - preferably with a rubber head +  * Mallet (preferably with a rubber head) 
-  * Heat source +  * Some covering material for the logs to keep moist (transparent garbage bags or so) 
-  * Some covering material for logs (in case of rainy weather and if you keep them outside) +  * 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. 
-  * Few big flower buckets or any found containers, or Pflanz-taschen set which can be used for sticking 1/3d of the logs into it and keep indoor +  * Chainsaw  
-  * Chainsaw +  * 3% Hydrogen peroxide  
-  * Hydrogen peroxide +  * Moisture meter/Feuchtigkeitsmesser (optional) 
-  * Moisture meter/Feuchtigkeitsmesser+  * Heat source around ( to melt the beeswax)
  
-=== Host tree (Logs available for the visit 14-18.3.12:) ===+=== Host-logs available for the visit 14-18.3.12 ===
  
-  * Oak +  * Ash (2x100/20sm) 
-  * Ash  +  * Alder (1x100/20sm)
-  * Alder +
   * Beech    * Beech 
-  * Birch  +  * Birch
-(2 of each x 100/20sm)+
  
-=== Mushrooms ordered ===+=== Mushroom spawns ordered ===
  
-  * 1 Changeable agaric mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs +  * 1 **Changeable agaric** mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs 
-  * 1 Nameko, 50 inoculated plugs +  * 1 **Nameko**, 50 inoculated plugs 
-  * 1 Elm oyster mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs+  * 1 **Elm oyster** mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs
  
-=== Coupling woods with mushrooms ===+=== Matching type of wood to type of mushroom ===
  
-  * __Changeable agaric__/Beech, Birch and Alder+  * __**Changeable agaric**__/Beech, Birch and Alder
   (Oak, __Ash__, Poplar, Willow, Edible chestnut – possible; Conifers - less)   (Oak, __Ash__, Poplar, Willow, Edible chestnut – possible; Conifers - less)
-  * __Nameko__/__Beech, Oak__, Birch+  * __**Nameko**__/__Beech, Oak__, Birch
   (Poplar, Willow, healthy wood from fruit trees – possible)   (Poplar, Willow, healthy wood from fruit trees – possible)
-  * __Elm oyster mushroom__/Beech, Poplar, Linden (lime), Maple, Willow, Aspen, __Alder and Birch__.+  * __**Elm oyster**__/Beech, Poplar, Linden (lime), Maple, Willow, Aspen, __Alder and Birch__.
   (do not grow well on Oak)   (do not grow well on Oak)
  
-==== Mushroom-bed culture ==== +==== Meeting notes (Tim, Marc, Natalia) ==== 
-==== Timeline ==== + 
 +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]] 
 + 
  
  
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