A couple of weeks ago, local mushroom cultivator Michael Johnson allowed into his backyard grow shed to take some photos as he prepared and harvested his crop of Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms. It was a great way to kick off the work week cycle, hanging out amongst the shelves of Shiitakes on a sunny, comfortable Wednesday morning. Johnson hopes to make regular customers for his mushrooms of some of the local chefs in and around Vero Beach. I have to admit, I like the idea of eating fresh mushrooms from right up the road rather than re-hydrated Shiitakes trucked in from who knows where (though I'm probably not enough of a mushroom connoisseur to actually discern a difference in quality). Interesting note: the mushroom grow shed doesn't smell moldy or rotten like one might expect. Rather, the scent was reminiscent of wood shavings on a foggy morning mingled with what, to me, smelled like the insides of a freshly carved jack-o'-lantern.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Mr. Mycelium and the Mushrooms
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3 comments:
I like the robot face on the outside of his workspace.
He looks like a fun guy, was he very talkative?
My favs are 4,5,6.. 6 feels like a TOM photo ;)
I like that face, too, Milla. He's a nice guy. Knows his stuff when it comes to mushrooms. Lu: I'm keen on that sequence, as well. It's cool that #6 registers as a Tom photo for you. I like #5 because it feels like a shot I might usually miss and it seems to adds some variety. We only ended up running one photo in the paper, but I tried to shoot it like a magazine article.
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