{"id":186,"date":"2009-10-21T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=186"},"modified":"2009-10-21T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:26:17","slug":"growing-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Growing mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-187\" title=\"mushroom2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom2.jpg\" alt=\"mushroom2\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom2.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Week 3 of the Hackney City Farm Garden Regeneration course in Broadway Market, and as a reward for a lot of digging, we get introduced to the process of growing our own batch of Oyster and Shittake mushrooms. First, a collection of Sycamore, Birch and Beech logs are prepared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-188\" title=\"mushroom1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom1.jpg\" alt=\"mushroom1\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom1.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bags of Oyster Mushroom spores are shared around. A \u00a35 bag from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annforfungi.co.uk\/shop\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Miller<\/a> will generate 2 batches a year for 5 years!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-189\" title=\"mushroom3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom3.jpg\" alt=\"mushroom3\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom3.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The group prepare the necessaries: Logs, straw, water, bin liners to store the logs in until Spring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"mushroom4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom4.jpg\" alt=\"mushroom4\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom4.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The logs are placed on straw which has been wet, then spores, with grain, are rubbed all over the logs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-191\" title=\"mushroom5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom5.jpg\" alt=\"mushroom5\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom5.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mushroom5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mushroom &#8216;body bags&#8217; are placed in a pile, and left over the Winter months to work their magic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 3 of the Hackney City Farm Garden Regeneration course in Broadway Market, and as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","category-organic-gardening","comments-open","no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}