Phuong Tran began to see signs of life in his oyster growing kit on the 7th day. It was a growth, reminiscent of nail polish with nails - with nubbly, rubbery and soft gray. "It's very interesting because this is a rectangular box that looks just like dirt and in an instant ... it's like, 'Oh my gosh, it's alive,'" says a Toronto food writer.

When the mushrooms

Began to appear on the X Tran they had snatched from the plastic cover and sprinkled with water several times a day, the growth had exploded. He thought of their extraordinary rush on the night of the 9th day as a form of adolescence: “I used to joke,‘ Oh, look, it looks like a little kid. ’” Unlike difficult adolescents, who felt that they could last forever, he never did. it should not wait long for her newborn fungus to be ready for harvest.

• For two weeks, Tran ate homemade oyster

• mushroom for breakfast, seasoned, fried,

• and eggs. The “great pride” he felt in his early
• years of cultivating food of any kind made the rewards even greater.

“They feel different but probably because I was proud of them because I raised them. If I was blinded by the mushrooms I was buying, I don't know if there would be a difference, ”said Tran, laughing.

While working at home during the violence, Tran was able to chase the indirect sunlight into his living room, moving the kit to higher positions all day. He would spend the morning next to her at a work table facing west and moving around the sofa in the afternoons. Wherever it was, it was always on his lines.

A native of Montreal, Tran is a self-described citizen of the city: “I have never lived in any kind of remote area. I have never been so close to farming. ” Like many Canadians, she has done her best to close the door by trying her hand at mushroom online food - developing new awareness of ways to reach the plate during the process.

More than half

of Canadians planted their own food last year, according to an October 2020 survey conducted by Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University; about one in five (17.4 percent) for the first time. Seed suppliers and plant care providers have found a surprising demand due to this record number of epidemic farmers, and this year it is growing in the same way.

Interest in growing mushrooms has been growing "for a long time," said Willoughby Arevalo, a Vancouver-based veterinarian, author and author of DIY Mushroom Cultivation (New Society Publishers, 2019).

Arevalo became interested in mushrooms when he was four years old, according to his parents, and has been sharing his skills and knowledge for more than a decade. As well as being a parent, making art and playing music, she mushroom online it one of the most rewarding aspects of her life.

"It used to be a weird thing to do and now it's suddenly hip," he says, laughing. “So it is a strange change but I accept it because the fungus is so amazing and unpopular and misunderstood by the general public that the more we understand them and communicate with them, the more, our communication can be greater and better. we can truly succeed together. ”