Handy little chart of how to store your fruit and vegetables.
Amazing things you can do with 500,000 dahlias.
There are new White House kitchen garden videos.
Edible Geography has a day out with mushrooms grown in an old railway tunnel.
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Always looking for new and novel ways to garden and eat, I’m thrilled to have found these great kits fromMushroom Gourmet. Complete with really good instructions and everything you need to be growing these little blighters. I’ll let you know in about 2 weeks just how fabulous this kit is. Yum, I can’t wait! I’m super excited at being able to cross something else off my weekly shopping list.
In the very cool but very warm plant product category this week, we have Greensulate – a low-cost, rigid insulating board made from mushroom spores.
“The insulation is created by pouring a mixture of insulating particles, hydrogen peroxide, starch, and water into a panel mold. Mushroom cells are then injected into the mold, where they digest the starch producing a tightly meshed network of insulating particles and mycelium. The end result is an organic composite board that has a competitive R-Value a measurement of resistance to heat flow and can serve as a firewall.” (Thanks Sustainable Times)
Spores from oyster mushrooms are used in the board which according to David Blume can be grown on distillers grains. Another part of link in the permacultural chain? Corn – alcohol – distillers grains – oyster mushrooms – earthworms – castings – and insulation board? I may have to get one of these NZ oyster mushroom kits for Christmas.
Watch the video Stop Global Warming by Growing Styrofoam with Fungi on YouTube.com.
Read Environmentally Friendly Organic Insulation Uses Mushroom Spores at ScienceDaily.com
Image: Oyster mushrooms by the lovely maggihc @ Dog Hill Kitchen