In this video we show you how to make premium compost for your garden using recycled mushroom blocks from South Texas Seasonals. It's a great way to build premium soil in just 6 months by diverting all types of organic matter from the waste stream. We are joined by Megan Lowder from Efficient Earthling at Gardopia Gardens in San Antonio.
We got a taste of the fungal diversity of San Antonio yesterday! Thanks to South Texas Seasonals and Jared McRae for putting together such an amazing walk. Y'all turned out! 50+ fungi fanatics and so did the fruiting bodies. One of the beautiful Chicken Of The Woods specimens we foraged will be flown to DC and prepared by chef's from Sichuan Dashi who will be representing San Antonio in a culinary event.
Thanks for coming out to the @shoalcreekconservancy Fungi Tour with us yesterday! The choice edible mushroom, Chicken of the Woods Laetiporus was roosting high in many of the heritage live oak trees that make Shoal Creek such a beautiful place.
As temps start to cool and trees start to loose their leaves, we start to look for the orange polypores known as Chicken-of the-Woods (COTW) Laetiporus sulphureus. Keep a look out on older Texas Live Oaks that have been trimmed and have their heartwood exposed. Spores are everywhere and carry a lot of genetic information that helps them find the right place to feast. COTW slowly eats the heartwood of Texas Live Oaks that are still alive. If you have ever seen a hollow tree, it is likely due to a fungus parasitizing a tree. Many times it’s not the fungi that is at fault. Human disruption, cutting down tree, and trimming of trees for roads and buildings, opens the tree up to the spores that are floating everywhere and waiting for the right opportunity to have dinner.
A few images from the Mycology Happy Hour at @liveoakbrewing. We are happy to report that there were no chicken-of-the-woods #Laetiporussulphureus found on any of the beautiful, heritage Live Oaks at the brewery. Thanks tree guy! @theymightbemonkeys and thanks @fredlabia for the tour and for going deep on sugar fungus knowledge!
Everyone had a chance to try a nugget of coconut chicken of the woods made by @forage.atx. Consensus... Tastes like chicken. 🐔
Of course, we did spot other fungal activity while running around the disc golf course... because we are fungi freaks of nature. A #sawgill #Lentinuscrinitus and maybe some old #Oakbracket. Whatever it was it smelled like petrol.
@swamppenwolf new to the leadership circle is fitting right into Austin in a hollowed out Eastern cedar... his subtle way of saying he misses Houston. His cute pup is even into fungus and was gnawing on some #hexagoniahydnoides.
Thanks @curlymyco for bringing all the recycled mushroom blocks for everyone to take home.
We are planning to do our October outdoor HH at @jesterkingbrewery because we want to try this new @txsakeco colab mushroom beer #LIGRA and also myceliate with @farmerpeppy and his goats.
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