Shitakes

I just bought 3 compacted sawdust logs that are inoculated with Shitake mushroom spores! A couple botany students that I have classes with are selling them for $8 a log, which is an amazing deal considering a log usually costs around $20 or more. So Evan and I get to eat shitakes for dinner all the time for a while. I'm going to see if I can figure out how to make my own logs with some spores and some Alder logs or something. Basically this is awesome and I'm really excited about it! I will post pictures when I actually get my little logs! I think we are going to keep them in the bathroom, where it is warm and moist. Weird, I know, but I don't care. Shitakes usually go for $13/lb so basically this is a great deal and it is helping out my fellow students!

Also today, there is a guy in my Plant Tissue Culture class that is culturing some Sphagnum moss (aka peat moss) for his project. A little bit of background: in California no sporophyte (the sexual reproductive structure of moss) has ever been observed (the moss reproduces asexually instead) until this guy in my class found it here in Humboldt County!!!! AND I SAW IT TODAY!!! SO FREAKING COOL!!! So basically, this guy, an undergraduate such as myself, gets to write a paper about his find and it will be published in a scientific paper!! So cool!

I want to discover something cool....I love science so much!