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Growing Together: Children, Animals, and Mushrooms · Sunshine & Bubbles High Vibin Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Skin.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes and yes.
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  Speaker 1: And this is going to our little DJI Nemo.
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  Speaker 2: Bam, all systems go All systems go.
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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, we're back again for session number lucky number 11 on the Sunshine Bubbles Podcast, and you are our High Vibe Tribe.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in.
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  Speaker 1: We are just trying to keep it real here on this podcast and have a conversation between best friends and we're letting you in on it.
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  Speaker 1: We just happen to be going live and posting it everywhere and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, we have a lot to share and to discover and explore and we're so thankful to do it with you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, hey y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I love you sunshine.
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: I love you both.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: We've been through it this week though.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's funny.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: It has been a humdinger of a week and I can't wait to decompress some of that together Me too Up.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: From the highs to the lows and everything in between, we are in the dog days of summer.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: Is it the dog days, though?
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: I guess?
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: end of June.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's officially summer, the kids are running around.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, like puppies, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Puppies and the plant babies, four wheelers, and I see a volleyball flying around out there.
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  Speaker 1: The giggles and the games and the laughter and some of the struggles, the arguing, bickering, who's his mind?
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like they've come to by now.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: They've like gelled pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, All the kitty cats.
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  Speaker 2: These are life skills.
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  Speaker 2: They need to know how to pivot.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: To pivot here Taking a reprieve from Ripley, yeah, the puppy dog, who they're still not quite sure of each other yet.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, aw.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: She's been growling quite a bit and a lot of barking.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: He likes to bark at her, so he'll just be like play with me, play with me, play with me is what I imagine he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's like not today not ever.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: No, just kidding, but there has been some fun moments with those two.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: Like just this week was.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite moments was at the Thiensville Farmer's Market, at the park there, and it was really cool because she and him got to go in the water on a beach-type area so instead of, like on the lake where you just put them in off the boat yeah, they don't really get the beach time so they went in on their own.
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  Speaker 1: Both of them ripley, went full in and started like floating down the stream we're like.
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  Speaker 1: So it was so cute that little puppy loving he was digging in the sand, digging up holes, barking at random rocks and things, playing with all the sticks, and he got a little out of line.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of ran out of the boundary to say hi, to greet some people, and Ruby protected him and ran up and wrangled him back so that was really good to see too.
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: You do love him, so making those sweet little moments.
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  Speaker 1: I found the hope of hey, they're just working it out.
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  Speaker 1: She's a grandmama dealing with a baby brother.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Did it take a minute for her and Primo to warm up to each other?
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there was a time where they had to get acclimated.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Primo was such a gentleman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he wasn't like nipping at her toes or anything.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: She was more the aggressor in that situation too.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: She became alpha, and so I feel like it's cool to see the different dynamics.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: And I just pray that Primo had taught her all those skills on how to be kind and gentle and forgiving and acclimating, all those Jesus loving skills that I'm trying to practice.
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, Aw, it just takes some time right.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, all in good time, not our plan, not our plan, but we did have a plan to.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: We've been waiting to launch our podcast for years, like at least two years in the making we've been committed to coming on here and sharing.
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: We've went through a platform Buzzsprout to upload all of the footage, so to speak, and then that platform Buzzsprout then disseminates it to all the different platforms where people listen to their podcasts.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: So you can find it on basically any platform that you listen to your podcast, on which there's way more than I even realized, ones that I can't even pronounce.
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  Speaker 1: But all your mains.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: You know Apple and Spotify and Audible are some of the main ones that you can go check it out and it's out there.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: And we're being super sneaky pete like hey, go to our dna has llccom website to subscribe to the high vibe tribe and then you will get the email to our podcast so we can kind of do some information capture and get you part of the tribe, get you synced up yeah, you don't want to miss out on any of this yummy goodness it's so, so good all these good vibrations, but, boy, we were tired.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh earlier, so necessary a little siesta in the grass we're both deciding what herb ally we wanted to talk about on the podcast today.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: We both, like looked at each other like, should we take a quick nap?
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: she's like you read my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right there, just laid down.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't walk anywhere okay, right next to the log board took off her shoes and laid down and zenned ground down oh, that was so needed it was, even if it was 10 minutes.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: yeah, if that right mean I could have gone without the bugs.
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: Horseflies were kind of annoying, but they weren't getting me.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: I could hear them flying around, but I wasn't getting spit.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: No, they were more tickled than anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they weren't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not aggressive, which?
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: speaking of the bug.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: So we went and we decided to take a nap, but that was after our mermaid lagoon experience.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: So how many kids do we have here today?
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  Speaker 1: Five, five kids, six, six, six kids.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: And we took them all back.
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  Speaker 1: So we're trying to engage them with an activity before we go right to work, because I feel like so many times we get here on the farm and we're so focused on the get-to-do list that we've got to understand that we're here in the juicy awesomeness of summer vacation.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: Yes and it is all about the babies, it's all about the children.
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  Speaker 1: So we're like, before we go into straight work mode, we've kind of made a commitment that we want to engage the kids in some kind of fun activity.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Before we go into straight work mode, we've kind of made a commitment that we want to engage the kids in some kind of fun activity.
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  Speaker 1: So we decided to make it interesting and tell them about the Mermaid Lagoon that is down below.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a little hike in to get there, but thanks to our work clearing it out.
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  Speaker 2: We made a path which our path is like this big when it started, yeah, but it's there, it is so there and we get back in there.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: Lily, your oldest helped us carry back the sound bowls.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had the band bag and in my mind we were going to start a band back there.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: We were going gonna have a little sound bowl sesh, but no sooner the kids beat us in.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: They kind of were already in this playing in the stream by the time we arrived at the sound bowls and you tell them what happened next oh, they were ready to leave, they were swept out by mosquitoes, mosquitoes.
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  Speaker 2: We forgot the bug spray.
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: So we were all set up, had the bowls out, the blanket out, kids were in the stream.
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: It was magical.
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: But then, yeah, then it just overtook their minds and they couldn't think of anything but the mosquitoes and we're like no, just don't think about it, don't give them attention, they, they'll leave you alone.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: I'm higher and we're like nope nope, it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Play it cool, just play it cool Cause they're feeding off your energy.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to like freak out.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to freak out too.
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  Speaker 1: They were bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we just got some we've been getting rain on and off here in.
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin, and so it was like just wet enough that the bugs were out.
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: I feel like that was a rookie mistake of mine and I'll take it.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: Bug spray was essential.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: I'll take it too.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: We totally forgot about it.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: So we learned I don't even know bug spray, I don't know Would it help?
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: But they hiked out.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: They're like oh, we're out, Left us back there with the sound poles.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: They're like I don't play mom.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: And we got back.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: What were they doing?
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Slathering and lathering with the balm oh yeah, balm to save the day again, and not a complaint.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: No, didn't hear about it after.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Honestly, they loved welts, those mosquitoes.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: We were all welted and a little bit of that balm and I'm not, I'm not itching anymore, me neither.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: It's a miracle.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: Sure is in this household or that that we don't have any other options.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: It's not like we have some calamine or like any other, any other itch cream.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: It's like oh, it's the bomb or nothing.
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  Speaker 2: kids oh man, they were slathered.
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: She was wisely.
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: They're like I'm putting it all over my body.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a breakthrough moment of like yes, like they know it works, they know it helps.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: They went right to it.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have to like keep, keep, you know, putting it in their face.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: They just, you know, made it happen for themselves, and that was a great level of independence.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, I'd say definite win, definite, definite win.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: How do we there?
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: We go, stop it and then go back and we're back.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: So yeah, all of the.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: It's never a dull moment here on the farm at all.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: I love what we're doing though it's so exciting.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: I do too yesterday we were planting onions and we I'm really excited to kind of see how that experiment plays out.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the buckets.
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed having Weston here and him wanting to plant too.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: That was so.
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know how many maybe one or two onions he planted, but he did.
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 1: That was so sweet.
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  Speaker 1: He is five, my little nephew and I just love.
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  Speaker 1: He's not afraid to get dirty or get right in there and ask questions and be curious, and just his little innocent, sweet voice just melts my heart all over the place.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: I love having that sweet little energy out here.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: He was more interested in the drill, though.
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  Speaker 2: He liked drilling the holes in the bottom of the bucket, which is part of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's very important for them to learn too.
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  Speaker 2: So they got all the not all the skills, but a lot of skills in just one little planting session.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So we checked out some old Tupperware tubes that we drilled holes on the bottom, and those will be nice as well, because we could fit more onions in there than we could a five-gallon bucket.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So we got them in two different kinds of containers.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: We put our topsoil compost mix on the bottom and then topped them.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: We plugged in the onion sets and then topped them with potting soil and watered them in.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: Real nice, and I'm excited to see no weeding for this.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: I'm going to sit back and let that happen.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we know where they are.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: They're contained in the container.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: You don't have to dig them up and try to find them, just dump them out, right, dump them out.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Same with the potatoes too.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: We cut the potatoes.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Our spuds that had the different eyes where the sprouts were coming.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, somehow this got unconnected.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: And then when we fire that back up, there we go.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Hopefully it stays on.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Ow, there's a slapping noise there.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, I just wonder, is it like?
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure this is on Mm-hmm, mm-hmm?
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: So then you cut them and then you let the potatoes sit out for 24 hours and then they kind of dry out, so they're not like so slimy and that gives them a nice hard surface.
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: So when you put them in the soil it's better chances to kind of dry out, so they're not like so slimy and that gives them a nice hard surface.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: So when you put them in the soil it's better chances to to kind of.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: I think it needs to be plugged in.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I bet it does sunshine on the spot over here yay queen boom, we're back in action, friends, we never left.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: No so onions, and that was a lot of fun too and engaged the kids as much as possible.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: But today we're going to get them with the mushrooms, I tell you.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: That's exciting.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: It needs to happen.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: So we have the straw soaking in the hydrated lime solution powder.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: So you mix that in with the water, put the straw in there, let that sit at least 24 hours.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: That helps rid of extra acid, was it right?
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: It kind of gives some nutrients into the straw.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Kind of hydrates the straw and gives something for the mushrooms to feed off of.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: I believe Gets it where it needs to be.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: I think the headphones.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Should we just ditch these guys?
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going in and out, so we're just going to have to use the audio.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, that feels good actually yeah.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Ditch those headphones.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Hey, yes, so we were talking about mushrooms and hydrated lime.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Get those in the buckets.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: Do a layer of the spawn the mycelium.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: Is it spawn?
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Is that what?
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: you call it, I actually have it yeah, yeah, bum-ba-da-da, ahoy.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: So you do a layer of the straw and then a layer of the spawn, and continue all the way up, and we have the holes drilled in the sides of the buckets, and that's where the mushrooms grow out of.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm so excited for these mushrooms this summer.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: I hope to get a ton of oyster mushrooms so easy to do too, like soak straw, not hay.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: You don't want to use the hay because I think that can promote moldiness with all the nutrients in there.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: That's not meant for it strong, you kind of just.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: It's just like the substrate or the medium that you're using to kind of hold this spawn in place.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's why I think you soak them, because you want that wetness, and then it helps with the acidity too of the spawn.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: So a lot to learn there.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is our second year, so we're still newbies.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, they turned out really well.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: We had quite a bit of mushrooms to eat.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: last year we had the pohu and the blue, I know gray dove, gray dove, yeah, and now we kind of doubled down Blue, I know, gray dove.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Gray dove.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mm-hmm, yes.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: And now we kind of double down through Field and Forest, which is local here in Wisconsin.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: It's a local Wisconsin company.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: They do such nice work.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I love Field and Forest.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: There are mushroom trailblazers and they've been doing it for quite some time.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Their mushroom farm is super impressive.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: They host field days too, to engage, engage the community, which is on the calendar.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I've been really meaning to go but one day, because I'd love to learn about mushrooms and the mycelium network underneath us and fungi is a whole kingdom in and of itself and I can't wait to get in there and use mushrooms for nutrients necessary vitamins and nutrients for ourselves.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: They're so dense and they're so good for you.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: They're like anti-everything as well.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: So we could do a whole thing on just oyster mushrooms, and we should, we should, yes.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Once they come and we have them, we're like oyster oyster, but for now I think we have six different varieties of oyster mushrooms that we will be inoculating or cultivating, and I'm super stoked on it, me too.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: So, soak in the straw with the hydrated lime overnight, 24 hours, pull it out for about an hour before you want to plant so it's not super drippy, and then layer it just like a cake.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, a mushroom cake.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Straw spawn Straw spawn.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Straw spawn.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Straw spawn Straw spawn straw spawn.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Straw spawn straw, straw, straw drip, drip drip, drop to the top, Plumb it up, don't forget your label and say a prayer.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: And ready to rock and roll.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I wonder.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Probably like a week, maybe two, I don't remember how long it took for the last round for it to Start pinning.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for us to have mushrooms.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: I don't think it was quite a week we were camping last year, remember, and Danny was like there's mushrooms.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: We're like, ah, mixon's fingers are bleeding Dad, there's something happening.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: They got stuck.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, okay, Is that time?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Yes, Do you want to hold it down on the live log?
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Well, we have some children to take care of.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: That is our number one priority.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: We're going to have to cut this one a little short, guys, sorry.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks for watching.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: We'll let you know how the mushrooms go and everything else.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Love you.