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First harvest of the year, Sauvignon Blanc from the terraced slopes of Renaissance Vineyard.

Thank you @frenchtownfarms for growing the excellent fruit, always tastes like where it comes from ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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What a fun project to be a part of this fall, the redwoods are such a gift to experience. Roads are soon impassible, final touches will wait for spring.

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Today marked a monumental triumph for the shiitake farm; the first large harvest out of the new shiitake greenhouse.

It has been three and a half years since I first cut and planted logs in Auburn. Trying to grow mushrooms on logs in our climate is fraught with difficulty and uncertainty. A log doesn’t give you the same feedback a plant or even a quicker to colonize, transparent mushroom grow bag does. You can’t peel back the bark of a mushroom log to see if they’re happy and growing without irreparably damaging the potential of that log.

After significant failure, trial-and-error, and multiple restarts and farm moves, I have been contemplating the viability of the commercial log grown shiitake farm as well as my future in farming for some time. I exist mentally in a weird state of being fully vested while also almost entirely indifferent towards this incredible project and undertaking of which I have dedicated years of my life and risked everything financially for. As of right now, there is no clear future or point at which Domko Shiitakes will be profitable. I will have to do it all over again, cheaper and more efficiently in order to even begin to approach that goal.

However, while my journey of entrepreneurship has been a hard one, one thing that is certain is that I love these freaking mushrooms and I love growing them. Also, some wider concepts seem to be crystallizing into working practices and hopefully soon I will have a consistent stream of production.

Picked 50 lbs today. More coming this week. DM or text me to get yours. $20/lb, $17/lb if you buy 2 or more. Wholesale prices and special first time wholesale prices available. Chico tomorrow. @brownsvillefarmers on Friday 4:00 - dusk. Maybe doing a Sacramento delivery Saturday if sales and the stars align.

#loggrownshiitake #premium #premiumquality #smallfarm #sustainablemushrooms #landstewardship

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Still processing the last year and the season at Riverhill Farm in Nevada City. Two notes of certainty: we grew a lot of fucking tomatoes(~4,000 plants) and head lettuce. But more importantly, I’ll forever be thankful and grateful to these resilient youngsters. Despite the onslaught of climate extremes, fires, landlord drama, naughty birds, a weed seedbank you wouldn’t believe, and a toddler that ran the farm(me? or Rosemary?). They showed up daily to kick ass and grow a ridiculous amount of food. Thank you all for having our families back during this wildly chaotic year.

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as harvest comes to an end we want to give another BIG thanks to everyone that made it possible🧡

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8/15/21 ~ harvested syrah in the home vineyard with the help of some friends 💜 #dryfarmed

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Almost there...

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Full force: all the way from Chico, CA, welcome to the squad @domsoderstrom #andanotherone #tapitandcapit #bestoftrap2016

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