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London bushcrafter goes wild

tinder fungusseesoyster mushroomsmind altering drugsfire pistonfirechar clothbiblical 11 Feb 2008 5:24 PM
Firemaking, biblical insight, seed planning and a shot of the finished dried oyster mushrooms. by rich59 Comment (2)

Blogs and blogging

I don't know.  You start out on a journey and you don't always know where you are going.   3 days in, and a third entry in my blog and what to you know?  I get round to finding out what a blog is.  I now know it is a "web log".  I guess that means a regular log on the web.  Well, that sounds like what I am doing at the moment!  So, may be I have got something right.

Fire, fire, fire

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seedmushroomgenomefungusdehydratorcress 10 Feb 2008 7:59 PM
Thale cress and the dehydrator by rich59 Comment (0)

1) The dehydrator 

This went very well.  After 36 hours the chopped fungus was beautifully dry, and not at all browned.  They were at dry as a crisp and had retained a nice, strong mushroom flavour.  Great for stews and soups in the future.  Mmmm.   I have stored them in some sealed jars.

 2) Thale Cress

I am on the lookout for a tiny plant - Thale cress.  Why you might ask?  It's because

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wine makingsporeoyster mushroomsNorwaymushroomJerusalem Artichokeicefungifriction fireflourfisingdehydratordehydratingatlatl 9 Feb 2008 11:22 PM
London Bushcrafter explores by rich59 Comment (0)

This is my first blog entry.  I hope there will be many more.  I aim to flag up new entries in the forum so people will know to look.

My bushcraft is not all doing and teaching.  I do much more thinking about the subject than doing.  And I do experimental stuff that is often quite wrong. 

 So, here is item 1:-

Dehydrating oyster mushrooms

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