Spaceinmyhead wrote:o n d i n e wrote:Introducing myself because this topic gets me so excited! I am in my senior year of college studying for a B.S. in environmental horticulture. I'm currently interning at a biodynamic farm where we graze sheep, grow forest medicinals (goldenseal, black/blue cohosh, etc), and focus on non-traditional perennial crops like sassafrass, paw paws, and spicebush!
My mentor also dove headfirst into growing (legal, tasty) mushrooms outdoors on logs that he inoculated! He recently gave me a small log that is inoculated with shiitaki mushrooms! It should produce shiitakis for the next couple of years c:
Oh my goodness thats so cool!!!! You have like, the dream job I'm so not going to lie. Whats your favorite part of your internship! Oh! And please do share pictures of the mushroom logs if you have any, those are so fun and I'd make one myself if I actually liked to eat mushrooms (lol)
Seconding the need for pictures
And this is so cool!! I've always wanted to try a pawpaw but we don't have them in the West. I love foraging for edible wild plants; I can't even imagine what a farm of them would look like. It would be amazing if we could have more multipurpose small-scale farms, it would be a lot more sustainable, especially with more underutilized native species rather than domesticated ones. I've never heard of that major; does it include a lot of ethnobotanical principles?
