Started the mushroom kit three days ago.

Here is the box, slightly opened.

The website: www.backtotheroots.com is great.  Two guys, UC Berkely, coffee grounds, Peet's, mushrooms, TEDx. It's got all the great buzz words plus a pic of the two guys in button-up shirts looking happy and sustainable. The photo of the possible outcome is most inspiring.  Big, broad capped mushrooms reaching out of the brown corregated box it comes in.

So step by step here's what that first encounter with the opened container looks like:

First impression: kinda cool. Bag of moldy coffee grounds.  Instructions.

Of course, like any good project, it's not just mist and wait. You open up the box and cut a cross cut the length and width of the opening.

  And then you have to take the bag out of the box and submerge it in water for 24 hours. Not difficult at all.

  And it comes with this awesome mister. You have to mist 2 times a day for approximately 2 days.

Nothing has really happened yet. Small bumps have occured but nothing I can really get on my camera. I've been misting and looking forward to day 10.

I think this is a great idea across the board and I'm looking forward to see what else these guys come up with. They're getting it into schools and hope to promote growing food at home.

I actually thought about a post of great christmas gifts I've found since starting this blog just a month ago since I'm in the brain of spreading great, traceable food to the masses.

Guess what you'll be getting this year, Sherwin....