How to Grow Mushrooms on Woodchip
By Ben Raskin, Chelsea Green Publishing
Growing mushrooms on woodchip can be done under trees in the field or garden, or you can put the chip into containers and grow either inside or outdoors. Scale of production, available facilities, and time at one’s disposal are things that might affect your choice of system.
The Woodchip Handbook: A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers: Excerpt
By Ben Raskin, Resilience.org
With the potential for woodchip to boost soil health, hold onto water and promote plant growth, it is a small step to look at how to effectively harness that potential for rescuing degraded and damaged soils.
Silvopasture: The Benefits of Integrating Livestock and trees
By Ben Raskin, Sustainable Food Trust
We are now starting to learn from other countries – and from an increasing body of research – the numerous benefits of silvopastoral systems. There is also an urgency that climate change brings for an uptake of these systems. Project Drawdown, a climate mitigation project, identified silvopasture as one of the top ten climate solutions.