Writing
Notes from the field.
Operations, mushroom farming, software, and the places those rub up against each other.
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Mar 9, 2026
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily
Gently as you dream
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Feb 16, 2026
calm, deliberate shining
A case to stop hustling, at least for a little bit
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Jan 11, 2026
Growing a Scientist
From Frozen Fish Sticks to Flow State
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Dec 8, 2025
Writing by the Pound
The Scenic Route to Proficiency
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Oct 11, 2025
What do spores look like?
and why do they make towers?
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Oct 1, 2025
What does a mushroom fly infestation look like?
Spotting the Sneaky Signs
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Sep 9, 2025
Free Mushroom Grow Kits!
Makes you learn better.
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May 7, 2025
The Weave of Mycelium: Exploring Sustainable Materials Through Upcycled Fabric
Soaking and inoculating shredded cotton muslin with Pearl Oyster, Turkey Tail, and Reishi to make sustainable mycelium-bound materials — and what one batch of green mold taught me.
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May 5, 2025
Mushrooms in the Classroom — Three Simple Activities for Middle School Mycologists
Three classroom-ready mycology activities for grade 7–8 students: oyster grow-bag experiments, DIY toilet-paper-roll mushroom farms, and a mycoremediation jar that breaks down used motor oil.
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Apr 17, 2025
How to Transform Your Garden With Mushrooms
Spent mushroom substrate isn't waste — it's a soil amendment that fruits more mushrooms, builds carbon, holds water in dry spells, and invites wildlife back into the garden.
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Oct 23, 2024
Incremental Improvements to Grow Your Mushroom Business
A Never-ending Story
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Jun 27, 2024
Knowing Lion's Mane: A Journey into Biochemistry, Neurological Repair, and the Promise of Nature's Remedies
Years of trial and error making lion's mane extracts at Heartwood — what I learned about extraction methods, beta-glucans, and getting to a real concussion-recovery dose.
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Jun 24, 2024
Seasoning and Sculpting: Innovative Uses of Mushrooms in Craft and Cuisine
Five weeks at Heartwood: a 6-hour MycoArtistry workshop, mycelium canvas prototypes, the launch of Mushroom Spice, the Massey Spring Fair, and the Adopt-a-Block program.
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May 16, 2024
Forest Fabrication: Harnessing the strength of mushrooms for crafting
An invitation into the messy, exploratory work of mycelium composites — solid, mouldable, compostable objects bound together by mushroom mycelium — and what's coming next.
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May 14, 2024
Fungi in the Garden: Reinventing Plant Pots (pt1)
A first attempt at making plant pots out of spent mushroom substrate bound by mycelium — the three-stage incubation, what the prototype actually looked like, and what's next.
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Jan 15, 2024
Get Some Vitamin D(ata)
Tracking metrics might be good for me.
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Jan 14, 2024
Fungi in the Garden: Reinventing Plant Pots (pt1)
A new way to grow vegetables
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Jan 12, 2024
What do I get most excited about?
How I'm rewiring my brain to get excited about creating content.
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Jun 16, 2023
A Case for Tinkering
Why I think having fun with microcontrollers is a good business decision
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Nov 24, 2022
Decomposing Hydraulic Oil with Oyster Mushrooms — Part 1
A bench test feeding hydraulic-oil-soaked rags and cardboard to Blue Oyster mycelium, what showed up after 10 days, and how I plan to test whether the contamination is actually being broken down.
