below is what they look like brand new young - very dark like Shiitake color!   Here is what I just harvested - so they are pretty much fully grown:   yeah they have a nutty flavor that I think is stronger after the shrooms dry in the frig for a few days - to condense the flavor.... but they are also very medicinal, activating the immune system....  The major constituents of carnosol, carnosic acid, and clovane diol from Pholiota adiposa primarily alleviate AD progression by exerting anti-inflammatory effects. Carnosol, a terpenoid compound, exhibits various immunomodulatory effects, including antihypertensive 34 , anti-inflammatory 35 , 36 , anti-tumor 37 – 39 , and anti-fibrotic activities 40 . Carnosic acid exhibits inhibitory activity against acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase 41 . Moreover, Carnosic acid and Carnosol protect neurons from ischemic injury by scavenging intracellular reactive oxygen species 42 , 43 . Moreover, these compounds have ...

 First we got an early Spring very beautiful Shiitake big Oak tree harvest of "Donko" or "flower" Shiitake with more intense flavor from the cold air condensing the dew - hence the "flower" or Donko type that is the most expensive Shiitake to buy (when they are grown on logs). Log-grown Shiitake is by far the most medicinal since it gets more nutrients and competes more in Nature - so stronger medicine. OK the images are not loading - probably too much data for the blog format! I want to thank my CSA members for helping me - we got our first small Winecap small mushroom harvest from a neighbor's woodchip bed on a hill facing the sun. So people enjoyed - a handful of Winecap shrooms for the neighbors - to four other houses along with our house. We added ours to a pasta sauce. Winecap has a mild taste - more about texture or maybe timbre? hahaha. Then I harvested Dandelions to mix in the Vitamix Blender. Five gallons of organic Dandelions spray washed ou...

 

 Meanwhile Panama officials plan to spend $2 billion to redirect more rivers toward the man-made lake to supply the man-made canal. We’re changing the Earth and the atmosphere. Some hoax. The 50 million gallons of fresh water used to fill the locks of the canal are lost to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The fresh water sources involved with moving the vessels also supply drinking water for half the country. And diverting water will have repercussions on the ecosystem … if anyone still cares about that sort of thing. In the meantime, Panama is expected to lose out on tens of millions of dollars in revenue because of the bottleneck. Two out of every three ships that use the canal are connected to the U.S. economy. It’s the cheapest way to move grain and other food supplies.   https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-18/panama-canal-drought-climate-change-deniers In Manila Bay, the realities of climate change are already impacting local communities, with the area ...