new homestead tools

[hounddog25]

well i haven't been getting to much stuff lately for the homestead and the last couple of days i splurged a bit.i got a incubator that can do chicken or quail size eggs.also ordered a extra fine burr for my small commercial grain mill.i also been reading up on it a bit.it will grind just about anyhting...corn,wheat,nuts..dried peppers...bones even.it can do oily stuff also and tubers like mangels and turnips.i done a trade for this mil back in summer and i am glad i did.i hope to grow some nice corn for cornmeal and cornflour this coming year...maybe even some of the Hopi blue corn.anyone getting any new tools to do stuff with?? or trying out new stuff for next summer and fall.?

[mike692]

I've been wanting one of those fancy sprouters. Gives me something green to eat in the winter. I'd also like to do alot more with mushrooms this year. Oysters in particular. Right now I'm growing oysters on rolls of toilet paper.
I got them here; www.fieldforest.net

What I'd really like to do this coming year is spend more time harvesting different foods from the wild.

[johnporter]

Mike,
I use to collect oysters by the truckload in northern maine. They are some tasty mushrooms. We always got them in late fall.

[mike692]

johnporter said:

Mike,
I use to collect oysters by the truckload in northern maine. They are some tasty mushrooms. We always got them in late fall.

John they grow wild here too. I found some late this fall, but they were frozen.
They can be grown on logs like shiitakes, so I may try that this spring. They grow best on poplar. I shouldn't have any problem getting a few poplar logs.

[bigpat]

Mike I hope you picked those oysters. Freezing didn't hurt them at all. I picked some Thanksgiving day that were frozen, they were fine.

[mike692]

bigpat said:

Mike I hope you picked those oysters. Freezing didn't hurt them at all. I picked some Thanksgiving day that were frozen, they were fine.

I didn't know that.

Have you ever eaten the oysters with a greenish color?

[bigpat]

I assume you're talking about the ones we call "Greenbacks". They're usually smaller and smoother than the oysters? If so I do pick those. Very good!

[mike692]

bigpat said:

I assume you're talking about the ones we call "Greenbacks". They're usually smaller and smoother than the oysters? If so I do pick those. Very good!

Yep! Those are teh ones!