Woodshop · Mushroom Farm · Compost Facility · 40 Acres · Northeast Mountains
The Living Workshop
Creating Solutions to Our Consumptive Problems
A woodshop, a mushroom farm, and a compost facility — where the waste from one system becomes the input for the next. Nothing discarded. Everything cycled. The way nature already works.
The Closed Loop
The Living Workshop is three systems woven into one. The waste sawdust from the woodshop becomes substrate for mushroom cultivation. The spent mushroom substrate feeds our compost and vermicompost systems. At every stage, we produce something useful — functional wood products, medicinal mushrooms, fresh food, mycomaterials, compost, liquid amendments, and worm castings. All from sawdust most shops pay to throw away.
Tables, chairs, bowls, cutting boards. The sawdust — normally a disposal problem — is collected.
Sawdust becomes substrate for Reishi, Lion's Mane, and Chestnut mushrooms. Medicine, food, art, and building material.
Spent substrate feeds thermophilic compost and vermicompost systems. Nutrients return to the soil.
From the Journal
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The entire Living Workshop model is being developed as an open-source project — complete plans, material lists, and documentation so that anyone can build a Living Workshop in their own community. A MycoMakerSpace for all. But first, we have to build it and prove it works. Help us get there →