Offerings. The basket’s necessary because I can’t get all of those dishes upstairs to the Temple without it. The rosemary bread was broken and laid out on the altar for everyone, along with the honeysuckle, but they always get fresh water in their own dishes on the shrines.

runewaldcommunity:

We have made bread many ways before here at Runewald, but this may be the best so far…

It took remarkably little effort to make these breads and it also took remarkably little time for me and my partner to eat them. They didn’t even get a chance to cool. I plan on making an extra large batch when I refill on flour so I can make one or two offering loaves for each week. The forthcoming breads will all include whole wheat and other whole grains to some extent, but I wanted to try the master recipe straight from the book as much as possible for the very first attempt because we had never baked with steam in the oven either.

runewaldcommunity:

Inoculating freshly cut (but slightly aged) oak logs with shiitake, reishi, blue oyster, and pearl oyster plugs. First the holes were drilled, then the wax was melted, then we pounded in the birch plugs with a rubber mallet and sealed them in. The logs are currently arranged in a shady laying yard and enjoying a steady rainfall to keep them moist and help the mycelium spread quickly.

Our recent explorations into fungi farming.