OSU Living Mushroom Fence

We built a living mushroom fence for a hands-on project of the Permaculture Design Course summer intensive 2011 at the Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture.
First Jen and Dustin of "The Mushroomery" Gave us a lesson in inoculating small dowels with mycelium. We then hammered those Shitake inoculated dowels in hardwood logs: Big Leaf Maple in this case. Students drilled holes and hammer in the dowels. Then the openings were painted with beeswax. Logs were set upright in a swoop, and alder trees were planted around the swoop to provide logs for future inoculation and provide screening from an adjacent road.