I’m skipping over Wednesday because most of Wednesday I was sick. I stayed at the ranch for the afternoon, took a bath and a couple of naps. By dinner I was feeling a lot better. Later that evening we had an artist talk from a local artist who scans moths and makes prints from them and I think I went to bed relatively early.

Thursday

I felt better on Thursday to continue the activities. We went on a hike through the property and gathered mushrooms to make spore prints later. You leave the mushrooms on a piece of bark or parchment and the mushrooms drop their spores leaving a print. Then you can fixate the print onto the paper with hairspray. Later we inoculated grain to grow bio luminescent mushrooms.

 The spore print once it is done

Mushrooms laying on top of the paper

The supplies to inoculate grain

Then several weeks later, the grain starts to turn into mycelium!

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