Diary Of A Mini Mushroom Farm – Part Two

(Part One is HERE).

Day Six – The fungi continue to flourish and our mushroom containment system will soon fail if they keep doubling in size overnight. The Hermit goes to an art exhibit and the first thing she sees when she walks in the door is a mushroom-themed horror sculpture. Much side-eye ensues. Back at Hermit HQ, the mushrooms are still spreading.

Day Seven – Somehow the fungi are still growing. We can’t believe we ever doubted them. People keep sending The Hermit articles about mushrooms. This week has morphed into Fascinating Facts About Fungi Week. We debate whether we have room for them to spread out more, and in the end decide we’re going to get them tomorrow if they don’t get us first. It feels highly appropriate that it’s almost Halloween.

Day Eight – Harvest time! Forget carved pumpkins for Halloween, fungi are where it’s at. The mushrooms are collected and uhhh, there is a lot of them. The Hermit’s new currency is mushrooms. She considers giving up the day job to farm fungi. The mini mushroom farm is placed carefully back in its bucket to see if it produces shroomageddon round two.

Day Nine: The Hermit misses the mushrooms. Some lovable smartarse sends a gift – a cute lil pin (by artist pepper raccoon) which is, of course, a mushroom. We observe the mini mushroom farm. It doesn’t appear to be doing much but looks can be deceiving. Meanwhile, The Hermit has found more mushroom kits online and contemplates ordering one of each. The pink and the yellow side by side would make for interesting decor. We are decorating with mushrooms now.

Evening of Day Nine (Halloween): The first batch of mushrooms are served up for dinner as the topping on home grilled chicken burgers. They are extremely tasty. A glass is raised to the fungi in thanks. We are going to need more mushroom recipes.

LONG LIVE THE FUNGI!