The thrill of spring continues!  Harvesting and processing the last dormant roots, and newly sappy twigs, buds, and shoots, inoculating more shrooms, planting early medicinals, the twice daily microgreen work and seasonal transitions, general spring repairs and cleaning, and longer days outdoors mean we are happily sore and muddy (the adults more sore and toddlers

The calendar says spring and the living world seems to agree. The sunny coltsfoot flower is one of my favorite indicators, and we saw our first blooms on the 19th. Happy vernal equinox!  Our outdoor mushroom inoculation is in full swing. We started with shiitake and chestnut mushrooms and will add oysters when the next

We are shifting our focus from the quiet of winter roots and enjoying the enticingly active migration towards the spring sun, poking around the holler to see which sprouts are swelling or shoots emerging. I truly enjoy winter, but spring is always exciting! We just made a new anti-fungal salve with: Black walnut hull Cloves

This week we are making our last winter harvests and beginning to plant and plan for spring! Our mushrooms have taken a great deal of our attention as we improve indoor infrastructure and prepare logs for outdoor inoculation, and we are vey hopeful that the return (more mushrooms!) will be enjoyed by many. As a

March finds us with mushrooms on our minds We have been busy redoing our “shroom room,” improving our growing methods, and working out a schedule, in an effort to have mushrooms regularly in the near future. We have our first trial run of blue oysters growing in the new fruiting chamber now and we will

Only one more month until the official start of spring! I am grateful for the deep watering this snow is giving us in preparation! Upon writing this post, our road is still impassable for most vehicles, but maybe by Friday we will be able to use the van and it’s fancy functional heater. We are

We did not make any new products this week, but another batch of grassy roots oxymel is ready! Grassy Roots is made of wheatgrass for it’s multi-system benefits, especially it’s antioxidant and radioprotective, nutritive, anti-inflammatory, anti-biotic, gastro-protective, and ph balancing properties Turmeric for another powerful source of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-anxiety componants. Ginger for

Snow days in the holler are always a beautiful treat! They also remind us how wonderful it is to have fresh microgreens in the middle of the winter! We’ll be playing in the snow, drinking hot tea and making a new blended salve today. I am aiming for a nice, soothing and drawing salve for

This week has kept us busy, so we only have one new item to report: our first batch of Berry Shroomy Elixer It is made of extra strong elderberry, schisandra berry, and shiitake honey syrup, and dual extracts (alcohol and water) of maitake, Turkey tail, and reishi fruiting bodies, we are planning to offer it