Once the holes were covered in white mat mycelium, I took them outside for 24 hours where the cold shock initiated the mushroom formation called primordia From the best looking 10L bucket containing about 1kg of dried straw as an ingredient, I’ve cultivated 415g of fresh oyster mushrooms on my first flush. With 2 more…
Home Mushroom Cultivation – Inoculating the Substrate
I think it’s important to note at the beginning that these “how to” posts are in no way conclusive and I’m an absolute beginner figuring things out. Indoor mushroom cultivation is, to my great surprise, a relatively new subject and many home level cultivators are performing ongoing experimentation and tweaking different methods. As such, a…
Home Mushroom Cultivation – How to Multiply Spawn
I can’t pinpoint exactly when I began finding the fungi kingdom fascinating but I do vividly remember finding gigantic mushrooms as a child and being mind blown by the beauty and the inherent mystery of it. And like most Japanese kids, my childhood fantasies were littered with images from Ghibli’s Nausicaa where gigantic fungal species…
Minimalism – How Not to Buy Shit
One of the conclusions I’ve come to in recent years is that, for me, I’m happiest when I have a lot of free time. The time to read, listen to music, go hike, climb, meet friends, be creative, write a blog post, learn new things etc. I suppose I could slave away and wait for…
Sark Experience
Last September, I stayed on a tiny island near Guernsey called Sark for a little over 3 weeks. I was volunteering to help set up a small Permaculture themed festival with music, local beer and workshops. My girlfriend enrolled on a Permaculture Design Course running up to the festival, taught by Aranya who was my…
Permaculture Part 2 – Elaboration
Barriers of Entry I began mentioning in my previous post that the key task in the coming decades to avert severe, long term ecological consequences will likely be a transition of the masses to a more sustainable/regenerative ways of life. But the barriers of entry is still quite high and interspersed, making it difficult to…
Permaculture Part 1
From this month, I’m planning to upload one post a month that ventures more into detail about some of the ideas I’ve been thinking about. These posts will probably be difficult for kids to follow but come back to it when you’re a little older. I will be uploading more child friendly, or more like…
Scotland Roadtrip
Me and my friend Sam drove the North Coast 500 route – a 500 mile route along the Northern and North Western coasts of Scotland around the end of May. Setting aside a week, with a few day-hikes planned in, we drove the route anti-clockwise as recommended, coming off the route at the end to…
Rambling Ideas of a Dumpling Maker
Automation, robotics and AI are projected to take over 1 in 3 jobs within 20 years (read this article for a full list of jobs, each with probability attached to it). Many low skilled repetitive work will be replaced by a more efficient, cost effective robots and the ensuing unemployment crisis is a serious issue…
For Those Thinking of Starting a Van Life
A few pointers to get you under way in exploring the various avenues of living small and mobile. First published 16 April 2018 on Wix. I chose living in a camper van as a way to move from farm to farm and be able to easily carry my pet cat around. As it turned out,…
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