(Topic ID: 214879)
Woolgoolga
Surrey, BC
Salem, OR
When we first moved to the NW, we at one time were looking at moving to Aberdeen WA.
While looking at homes there, there was an old (defunct) bowling alley (~20 lanes) for sale, (closed circa 2010)
At the time it was only $60,000, but it needed a new roof badly and rain coming in had ruined several lanes.
For a time, we were thinking of buying it and fixing up about half of the better condition lanes and
tearing out the rest to then set up or store my then vast pinball collection.
But they had a bunch of lockers and other stuff that the bank (who held the deed) was willing to sell (ad hoc).
We wanted the lockers but unfortunately, they were just too big and heavy for my wife and I to move,
So we settled on some tables from the cafe/grill and a couple of old school high back curved wood benches,
we should have taken a dozen of bowling shoes from the big pile in the middle of the lounge, but they were very grody.
But the prize/find in my opinion, was the cafe menu sign, (backlit with fluorescent bulbs).
We got it all for $100.
Unfortunately, the sign was slightly damaged in transport home and over the years
the sign/marquee being fragile of aged plastic, broke into several pieces.
It might be repairable.
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Quoted from RyanStl:Went to a friend's lake house this weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks.
No pictures of Party Cove?
Quoted from ReadyPO:No pictures of Party Cove?
Didn't make it there.
Came home from Tofino, BC last week. This shot is steps from where we stay, and exactly where I proposed to my wife 14 years ago. Already looking forward to next year.
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While we were out fishing we saw a Mola Mola or Sunfish…pretty rare as we were only a few miles offshore.
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Great pics! Hoping to forage some Boletus Edulis aka: Porcini, Cep, Penny Bun, King Bolete etc.etc.etc...this fall. Haven't found them as of yet but they are my favourite wild mushroom when I can find them commercially! One of my favourite things to do is grab my wife and dog and go for a hike in the fall woods...
A couple new types of sunflowers opened this week. Butterfly’s love the Mexican variety.
The tree rats (grey squirrels) have been eating them so I spray them with
Deer/rabbit repellent spray that I mix. The rotten egg smell is a huge deterrent and after it dries humans can’t smell it.
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I've never seen so many different kinds of mushrooms and fungi in one small area!
Beautiful morning in the Savage River State Forest.
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20220826_114137.jpgVolunteered to go get chinese food for the group. Said it would be a half hour wait so I walked over to the bowling alley across the street for a beer and I found these. Played a few games of IM. Now I'm already trying to track down the operator to do some maintenance for him. Don't think he cares too much about the location as the guy said they haven't changed games out in 1.5 years
20220827_175645.jpg20220827_181609.jpgQuoted from punkin:I've grown most of the popular ones from USA though.
@punkin, I meant to ask you about your mushroom farming techniques. I'd love to try something like that - we have plenty of wire shelving, plastic containers, plastic sheeting, and many, many shrooms to gather spores from.
Does the mycelium grow throughout the container, and then the mushrooms poke out through the holes? It looks simple and efficient. Looks like you're using various types of compost or wood chips to grow them on.
Please tell us more! 
Quoted from DCP:punkin, I meant to ask you about your mushroom farming techniques. I'd love to try something like that - we have plenty of wire shelving, plastic containers, plastic sheeting, and many, many shrooms to gather spores from.
Does the mycelium grow throughout the container, and then the mushrooms poke out through the holes? It looks simple and efficient. Looks like you're using various types of compost or wood chips to grow them on.
Please tell us more!
It's a three stage process. You need to use eiehter petrie dishes (on a larger scale) or liquid mycellium as your first stage where you take a graft from a living cap in sterile conditions and then you have your tissue bank.
Sterile on a large easy scale means a flow bench. On a small scale and just as doable is a glove box made from a click container such as you'd store under your bed.
Can't find a pic of my glove box, but this
This is the flow bench i had in my office
Then the second stage is the grain bag's you can see there, either in a jar or in a specialist culture bag. Pressure cook grain to sterilise it and in sterile conditions introduce either a small squirt from your liquid mycellium, or a small slice from a petrie dish. That grows into that solid white mycellium you can see in the jars in a week or two.
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Step three is the one where you ready the substrate it will fruit on. For oysters the easy way works and that is straw that has been pasturised at 65C and then you mix the content of the grain jar in with the straw, pack it into bags or buckets and wait for the myceliium to spread back through and then fruit through the holes.
This is the bit where you need to control humidity and temperature to a lesser extent. So a cupboard or somesuch, a clip lock box again on a smaller scale and a spray bottle a couple times a day.
My first one incubation chamber
Then i went to this
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It's a fat lot of fun, you get to try shrooms that i'd never find in this country, and i used to have guys waiting for me at the gate at work to buy what i had for $5 a paper bag full. I started doing it because even oyster shrooms are $50 a kilo here.
My favourite, easy to grow and great to eat, the King Oyster (Pleurotus eryngii) has a great yeild and is one of the best to eat with a firm meat kind of texture.
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That's 150gm's (5oz)
I forgot to say, on a small scale to intro into it, you can buy the grain bags already innoculated over there i bet. I used to sell them on the forums here and post them all over Australia.
That way you skip all the sterile steps and just pasteurize the straw/sawdust or you can put it directly into a straw bale in your yard etc.
https://www.fungially.com/collections/buy-grain-spawn
Best forum, if you stay away from the hippies and alternate drug people and stay in the gourmet section.
Quoted from Hayfarmer:Pics thru my harrowbed window, last hay I'll ever haul. Officially retired today, farmed for 40 years
Congrats! Enjoy your retirement!
Quoted from Hayfarmer:Officially retired today, farmed for 40 years
Congrats - thanks for being one of the less than 2% of Americans who farm and provide sustenance for the rest of us!
Congratulations and thanks for helping feed us for all these years! Enjoy your retirement!
Quoted from Hayfarmer:Pics thru my harobed window, last hay I'll ever haul. Officially retired today, farmed for 40 years
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Quoted from pinball2020:Congratulations and thanks for helping feed us for all these years! Enjoy your retirement!
Thanks, Was a great, frustrating, no money at times way to live. But the best way to raise kids, and I wouldn't change a thing.
Quoted from ReadyPO:Congrats - thanks for being one of the less than 2% of Americans who farm and provide sustenance for the rest of us!
Quoted from jaytrem:Congrats! Enjoy your retirement!
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