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The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 7

It’s one of those cases where you dream a dream for so long that it takes a while to realize it is now reality.

Posted byMark GozonskyDecember 7, 2021December 9, 2021Posted inGarden, mushroomLeave a comment on The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 7

The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 6

Who’s laughing now, slugs?

Posted byMark GozonskyNovember 23, 2021November 23, 2021Posted inGardenTags:Achilles, American exceptionalism, bully, Canada, nahuatl, raices, seedling, slug, teaching, Urban farming4 Comments on The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 6

The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 5

Just as Yawning Tardy No Computer Kid did a good job analyzing diction in Salvage the Bones, so too is the one single dinosaur kale plant doing a good job of unfolding broad crinkly deep green leaves.

Posted byMark GozonskyNovember 16, 2021November 17, 2021Posted inGarden, Urban farmingTags:Peas, teaching, Urban farming2 Comments on The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 5

The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 3

It is as though an octopus has occupied the foot of the orange tree. Here is life and intelligence of a different order, all the more alive and bright for being different.

Posted byMark GozonskyOctober 1, 2021November 10, 2021Posted inGarden, mushroomTags:Emily Dickinson, God's mind1 Comment on The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 3

The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 1

The mf is now 60 years old and he is not climbing trees willy-nilly anymore.

Posted byMark GozonskyJuly 24, 2021July 24, 2021Posted inGarden, mushroomTags:gratitude, zombification2 Comments on The Mushroom Farmer, Book 4, Chapter 1

The Mushroom Farmer, Book 3, Chapter 12

He would like to stick his face right up to where he has planted corn and scream, “Why won’t you grow!”

Posted byMark GozonskyMay 31, 2021June 5, 2021Posted inGardenTags:10 out of 10, oats, pumpkin, Urban farming2 Comments on The Mushroom Farmer, Book 3, Chapter 12

The Mushroom Farmer, Book 3, Chapter 11

Hah-hah on lead poisoning, he had been thinking.

Posted byMark GozonskyMay 20, 2021May 20, 2021Posted inGarden, SoilTags:lead, lettuce, phosphate, push and pull, pyromorphite, wheelbarrow2 Comments on The Mushroom Farmer, Book 3, Chapter 11

The Mushroom Farmer — Prelude — Kentucky is a Brooder

Sometimes she lets me scratch her neck. I get in there under the feathers and sure enough, her neck is thin but I don’t think of it as scrawny. I think of it as lifeline.

Posted byMark GozonskyNovember 22, 2020April 24, 2022Posted inChicken, GardenTags:compost, HensLeave a comment on The Mushroom Farmer — Prelude — Kentucky is a Brooder
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