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US: Local man harvests innovation on farm
First, he'd turn up the heat and spray the walls with water to create a humid, summerlike atmosphere in the mushrooms' concrete-block quarters. Later, he'd start holding back on the heat and water to make the gullible mushrooms think that winter was fast approaching.
The mushrooms would go into panic mode and think they had to spawn or die. The deceived fungi would create delicious button or portabella mushrooms that Moore could sell at area farmers markets and restaurants.
It's just one aspect of Moore's new organic mushroom and hydroponics farm, Wind N Oaks, which is located on land south of Manhattan that his grandfather, Edwin E. Moore, started farming in 1920s and his dad Edwin G. Moore farmed until 1999.
Though he grew up on the farm and helped his dad farm for a while, Moore didn't think he'd spend his life farming. He went to restaurant management school instead. But he couldn't get the farm life out of his blood. After living in Florida for eight years, he came back last year to revive the old farmstead and turn it into a farm of the future, one that incorporates as many ecosensitive measures as possible.
He's recycled much of the material from old hog barns to create his mushroom growing rooms and greenhouses. He is installing a waste oil boiler that will burn everything from used McDonald's french fry oil to engine oil. He will recycle mushroom compost onto his farm fields. And he would like to install a windmill for power and create an aquaponics fish farm in an old dairy barn.
He will have the outside farmland certified organic, but he has to wait three years because a relative who last farmed the land used chemicals and petroleum-based fertilizers. It's going to take awhile for those substances to leave the soil, Moore explained.
Eventually, he plans to have his farm, located 14317 W. Joliet Road in Wilton Center, be a local resource for year-round vegetables and herbs, something more and more people are seeking as concerns crop up over items exported from overseas.
Source: suburbanchicagonews.com
First, he'd turn up the heat and spray the walls with water to create a humid, summerlike atmosphere in the mushrooms' concrete-block quarters. Later, he'd start holding back on the heat and water to make the gullible mushrooms think that winter was fast approaching.
The mushrooms would go into panic mode and think they had to spawn or die. The deceived fungi would create delicious button or portabella mushrooms that Moore could sell at area farmers markets and restaurants.
It's just one aspect of Moore's new organic mushroom and hydroponics farm, Wind N Oaks, which is located on land south of Manhattan that his grandfather, Edwin E. Moore, started farming in 1920s and his dad Edwin G. Moore farmed until 1999.
Though he grew up on the farm and helped his dad farm for a while, Moore didn't think he'd spend his life farming. He went to restaurant management school instead. But he couldn't get the farm life out of his blood. After living in Florida for eight years, he came back last year to revive the old farmstead and turn it into a farm of the future, one that incorporates as many ecosensitive measures as possible.
He's recycled much of the material from old hog barns to create his mushroom growing rooms and greenhouses. He is installing a waste oil boiler that will burn everything from used McDonald's french fry oil to engine oil. He will recycle mushroom compost onto his farm fields. And he would like to install a windmill for power and create an aquaponics fish farm in an old dairy barn.
He will have the outside farmland certified organic, but he has to wait three years because a relative who last farmed the land used chemicals and petroleum-based fertilizers. It's going to take awhile for those substances to leave the soil, Moore explained.
Eventually, he plans to have his farm, located 14317 W. Joliet Road in Wilton Center, be a local resource for year-round vegetables and herbs, something more and more people are seeking as concerns crop up over items exported from overseas.
Source: suburbanchicagonews.com
Publication date: 5/12/2009
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