Beau M. Davidson talks about Homegrown Mushroom Insulation, DIY Doors, Giant Wooden Hinges, and more.
Beau hates boring stuff, so this won't be boring. It's really more like a party. A webinar-party. A webinarty? Cool, lets go with that.
In this webinarty, participants are encouraged to top up their favorite cup with their favorite beverage, have some snacks ready, and jump right in to the wild and wonderful world of hi-fidelity, low-technology mushroom mycelium insulation.
Things we talked about at length, touched on, or talked about talking about but barely scratched the surface:
o growing valuable mushrooms at home for nearly zero dollars:
* which mushrooms are good for what applications
* what substrates are good for which mushrooms
* using what you have
* trusting that fungi knows how to do its job(s)
* failing forward in homestead-scale biological r&d
o yielding amazing mycelium material as a value-added byproduct of growing mushrooms
* how it works
* why it's awesome and generally way better than conventional materials
* when you might not want to use it
* glimpsing into the future of mycelium-powered architecture
o The Door at Cooper Cabin
* design evolution
- Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)
- Structural Insulated Panels (SIP)
- Appropriating Industrial breakthroughs in sustainable and homestead-scale design
* the Proenneke hinge
- Who the deuce is Richard Preonneke, and why should we care?
* What worked? What didn't? What will we do differently next time?
o other things we accidentally talked about
* making sheds, lean-to's, dog-houses, root-cellars, tree-forts, barns, and homes out of materials offered to you by the land and community where you dwell
- building with natural and abundant free materials
- building ethically with non-natural and abundant free or cheap materials
- improvisational and emergent architecture
- a funny tour of my berm shed-inspired microcottage addition where I point around the house awkwardly with my laptop
* building the solar wood kiln
* ceramics and mycelium
* space-age fire retardance of mycelium
* building with giant mycelium legos
* the weak point of intersection between conventional and traditional building paradigms
* Paul picks Beau's brain about mycoinsulating the wofatis
* last year's Permaculture Technology Jamboree
* this year's Permaculture Technology Jamboree
Duration: 90 minutes.
$10.00
Mycoinsulation Webinar Recording: Grow-Your-Own Insulation While Farming Valuable Mushroom Crops
I just got your email about this topic, so searched the forums for this thread.
The only question I have is :
How do you build with wood when mushrooms like the oysters you picture are saprophytic (break down cellulose / cause wood to rot)? That seems like the opposite of what you’d want… unless you’re intentionally building a temporary structure.
I just got your email about this topic, so searched the forums for this thread.
The only question I have is :
How do you build with wood when mushrooms like the oysters you picture are saprophytic (break down cellulose / cause wood to rot)? That seems like the opposite of what you’d want… unless you’re intentionally building a temporary structure.
Hey Mark! That's the first question most folks have. Both the webinar and the other threads go into this in great detail.
Short answer, using your oyster reference:
- Consumption is superficial, rather than deep, into substrate tissue.
- Consumption halts in the absence of water.
I got an invite to view this from Andres Bernal (I hope I got your name right Andres). I think I received it because I supported the new playing cards.
I can’t access the video. And the screen shot I am going to post shows what’s visible… only half the screen, and I can’t read the message, but I think it says I am not allowed to view it.
I'll try again later from my laptop and see if anything looks weird there. In the meantime, Thekla, I can't see most of the screen in your screenshot. Are you on a mobile device? I wonder what it would look like if you tried to access it from a computer?
Hi Beau, thanks for checking on it. The screenshot accurately represents what is visible to me…. Just a part of the screen.
Yes, I use an I phone,
Normally i can see the whole screen of videos I choose to watch. Except lately, most videos posted on permies are unavailable to me. I see a message that says something is configured wrong.
I don’t have a computer. The library in my town is only open 2 days a week, and the setting isn’t conducive to watching videos, especially more than a couple minutes…. And the sound track would be disruptive to others at the library.
I have to say I am very disappointed, because I have been wanting to learn about your mycoinsulation project since you first began talking about it.
Again, thanks for your efforts, and the inspiration to research and develop mycoinsulation.
Thekla, I am travelling currently, which limits my ability to test and troubleshoot. Let me know if you are able to try it from another device, browser, and internet connection. Ping me again and I'll look further next week.
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