Mushroom Farming

I recently looked up some stuff on how to grow mushrooms. The good kind.

It's a pretty easy system. You cut down a bunch of logs about a foot and a half long, and drill 2" holes all through them. You insert a little bit of mushroom spore into each hole, and then seal the deal with beeswax. The spore inoculates the entire log in the space of about a year, and exactly one year later, you're harvesting 2 pounds of mushrooms per log per year.

Anyways, it somehow got brought up at work, and my client told me that mushroom farming can be great, as long as you keep it outside.

It seems a friend of his had gotten into mushroom farming too. He had a basement full of these mushroom logs. All was going fine and dandy. He'd harvest a couple of mushrooms every morning, and take them down to the farmer's market to sell.

Eventually though, he went on a 2 week vacation.

When he came back, mushrooms had infested his entire house. They were everywhere. Doors, walls, wood flooring, the ceiling; he came back to a mushroom forest.

And he spent the next 40 days living in a hotel as his house was fumigated.

He moved his logs outside after that.