Allow me to be totally un-PC when I say that we had a joyous day Sunday celebrating the resurrection of our Lord Jesus.  The absolutely gorgeous weather didn't hurt either.

This great spring weather is an added bonus, giving us the opportunity to try another experiment with golden oyster mushrooms, pink and pohu oysters.  This time we are pasteurizing wheat straw then layering straw and mushroom spawn in laundry baskets.  Pasteurizing takes up a lot of time due to the small scale equipment so only a small amount of straw is pasteurized at a time.  However, today we should be ready to inoculate 1 basket.  Then two to go.

Our King oyster mushrooms are fruiting.   Can't wait to harvest.  We also had some Wine Cap mushrooms show up in our yard.  We had planted them last fall.  Our first customer came yesterday to see our operation.  She really wanted Reishi mushrooms but I haven't ordered the spawn yet.  Reishi is purely medicinal especially for cancer, helping the immune system, and for problems with the liver.  I gave her our Wine Caps because she drove 50 miles to get here.    She seemed very happy with the Wine Caps.