Check a mushroom log's condition each year and refresh or retire it across its three to five year life.

A well-kept inoculated log does not stop after one flush: it can fruit again each season for three to five years before the wood finally breaks down, but only if someone checks its condition every year, re-soaks it on schedule, and retires and replaces it once it is spent, rather than leaving a spent log in the stack taking up shade and space a fresh log needs.

Where

a resident's own home, near the town center, Uvalde, TX 78801 (Uvalde County; best-estimate location, exact address not confirmed) · Open the map

Pay

$80 proposed

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Proof

resident permission record plus annual firmness/tag check log plus refreshed-vs-retired record plus photo of the current labelled stack

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-13

Posted by

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The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. Once each year, before the next expected fruiting season, inspect every log in the stack: confirm its tag is still legible with species and inoculation date, and check the wood's firmness by pressing a thumb into the bark.
2. 2. For a log still firm and within its first three to five years since inoculation, schedule its next cold-water soak and fruiting flush following the same soak-and-harvest rung used every prior season.
3. 3. For a log that has gone soft, spongy, or crumbling, or that has passed roughly five years since inoculation, retire it from the fruiting stack; set it aside as spent wood rather than continuing to soak it for a flush it can no longer reliably produce.
4. 4. Record which logs were refreshed for another season and which were retired this year, and photograph the current stack with the updated tags, keeping the record current for next year's check.

What counts as done

• Written or recorded permission from the resident
• Confirmation that each log's tag stayed legible, with its annual firmness check recorded
• Record of which logs were scheduled for another soak-and-fruit season and which were retired as spent wood
• Photo of the current stack with updated tags

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Edible Garden Cultivation. Edible garden cultivation is food growing done to the standards the land-grant universities have refined for a century: healthy soil in tested beds, the right crop in the right season, hand tools, patience, and records. Mastery looks like a Master Gardener's plot, beds that feed a family most of the year from a piece of ground the size of a parking space. Every gardener who reaches that point started with a single bed and a single season. This packet is that start: one bed built or tended properly, one honest note about what happened.