So things didn’t work out down here for various reasons. Now I’m moving in to a place near Portland that I’ll be free to homestead on, but is a small suburban lot. Conveniently however it is unincorporated! So I can keep my rooster and chicken breeding plan in motion. Also there is a lot of foot traffic and I’m thinking I want to sell my excess farm stand style seasonally. There are aged pear, plum, and apple trees on the lot.
So here is a rough draft of my current game plan.
Get free woodchip deliveries (very reliable)
Use wood chips to grow a variety of mushrooms (I’m very good at getting spawn to make more)
Use spent spawn to feed chickens/ as bedding/ worm food (not something I’ve done yet, but the chickens love mycelium in woodchip bedding)
Use bedding that gets cleaned out of chicken run to make a finishing
compost pile. At this point I’ll add all the yard trimmings I want composted but not with chickens. After a while I’ll move this pile to the next stage
Cooling pile. At this point I’m not adding new material I’m setting this in the shade to cool off for several months to a year.
After the cooling pile I want one last compost pile. (I might have a problem.) This is where I will inoculate the pile with blewit spawn. Before sending it to the garden as mulch!
So who wants to punch holes in my logic.