Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
J.J. Schell, agriculture program leader with Cornell University
Cooperative Extension of Schoharie County, checks out two logs "inoculated"
with mushroom spores last May. The spores will feed off the wood fibers
this season and grow into gourmet mushrooms.
