Eco Sun Farms

Thank you to all of those folks who attended the mushroom 🍄 growing workshop during Soil Festival. Together we built straw buckets inoculated with pink oyster mushroom mycelium. If you haven’t peeked inside your bucket, 🛑 stop what you’re doing right now and go look. You should see a network of bright white mycelium growing all over your straw. Remember don’t place your bucket in direct sun, a very hot place in your house, or in a place where you forgot you had it. The last thing you want is to miss when your mushrooms are ready to eat. You’re so close to having mushrooms, I can’t wait!! Send pictures and let me know how it’s going.

Let’s grow some mushrooms! 🍄If you missed our last mushroom workshop, you don’t want to miss this one!! Join us this Saturday during Soil Festival at Maddox Park for a hands on mushroom growing workshop. Build and take home your own mushroom kit, then watch it come to life - harvest fresh mushrooms to enjoy at home in just a few weeks.

Some days I’m in the mood to cook some fantastic food. I’m always in the mood to eat it!! Today was one of those days and what an awesome breakfast I had. It included “Seriously The Best Tofu Scramble” from (check out the website https://rainbowplantlife.com/eggy-tofu-scramble/ -recipe-container-11576) and some Apple sour dough bread (wrote and amazing!!) from . It was so good I went back for seconds on both items. Tonight I plan to make Cauliflower Steaks with Caramelized Shallots from along with some more apple sourdough bread do I don’t waste this huge head of cauliflower I got from the farmers market. I’m also making some stinging nettle greens since I’m harvesting some for the farmers market tomorrow.

A couple of weeks ago I went into my bee hives and discovered two of them were queenless. I knew this was the case because there were no eggs in either and the bees from the swarm I caught had no brood or baby bees in the making. So I transferred frames with eggs in both hives so the bees could make a new queen. I waited 16 days (the time it takes to make a new queen) plus a few more days for her to take hey mating flight. I was delighted to see plenty of eggs in both hives in addition to some empty queen cells. The baby making has begun!!

Thank you to all of those who came out to our and Mushroom Growing Workshop yesterday. We learned a lot about mushrooms, how to grow them at home, and got to taste some mushroom dishes including a mushroom pasta salad, mushroom patè with a fig chutney, and of course our Mushroom jerky.

🍄 Grow Your Own Mushroom Workshop - join Eco Sun Farms & Gratitude Botanical Farms on April 18 for a hands on mushroom growing workshop. Learn the benefits of eating mushrooms, how to grow mushrooms, and how to do it easily at home. Plus participants will be able to enjoy some mushroom snacks during the workshop. See the link in the bio to register.