The East Nashvillian: Delicious Sustainability

On a cold morning late in February, David Wells, Jon Ramirez, and a small crew of local hands gathered under a carport at Ramirez’s Thriving Earth Farm to give inoculations. Not to people, but to about 500 sweetgum logs sustainably harvested from the forest on Ramirez’s land. The workers got busy drilling angled holes into the small, straight logs, filled them with mushroom spawn-laced sawdust, and then covered the openings with paraffin wax. Wells, owner of the mushroom business Henosis, had provided the shiitake mushroom spawn from the Henosis lab. Ramirez and Wells sold nearly all of those shiitake-bearing logs at the Nashville Lawn and Garden Show in early March. The happy buyers are looking forward to several flushes of shiitake this fall. Read More…