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Air Pruned Raised Beds 101
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Join Connor Youngerman of Cornell Small Farms and NYRP’s Parks & Urban Agriculture teams for an introduction to Air Pruned Raised Beds (APRBs) from construction to implementation. APRBs have been shown as an excellent method for growing a suite of urban tree species and hold great promise as a tool for forestry practitioners in NYC.…
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Fungi in the City and on the Farm
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Small Farms Radio covers the urban mushroom life cycle and explores indoor mushroom production. How does a mushroom move through the city? What does it take to grow mushrooms indoors? These questions were tackled on two recent episodes of the Small Farms Radio podcast as our agroforestry and mushroom specialist Connor Youngerman talked with mushroom…
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Shiitake Log Maintenance & Harvest 101
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Join Connor Yongerman of Cornell Small Farms Program, alongside the NYRP Urban Ag team for an intermediate-level mushroom log workshop focused on what happens after the inoculation process is complete. During this hands- on session, participants will have the chance to practice soaking mushroom logs and harvesting shiitakes with experts. There’ll be plenty of opportunities…
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Building an Alternative Supply Chain for Shiitake Mushroom Growers
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The Logs to NYC project connects city-based mushroom growers with rural landowners and surplus lumber hoping to blaze a trail to lower-carbon living. On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, power tools whirred and wood shavings flew outside the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, New York. In the shadow of Mathilda, a hefty 19th-century tugboat propped…
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Shiitake Mushroom Logs Headed to NYC via the Schooner Apollonia Sailboat
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For thousands of years, mushrooms have been grown on hardwood logs from sustainably managed forest lands. Their origins trace to parts of China, Korea, and Japan. Shiitake cultivation on logs is one of the oldest known forms of agriculture. Today, log cultivation is increasingly rare, replaced by technology and now many shiitake in the US…
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