Shiitake Log Mystery From Baldwin City Farm Boosts Local Cuisine
Alan Terry, a Baldwin City farmer, inoculates hundreds of oak logs with shiitake spores creating a small business that supplies restaurants. His Oak Ridge Farm uses windbreak trees to host the mushroom logs as family memories and a late wife’s gardening inspiration unfold into a flourishing hobby.
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Alan Terry
Baldwin City
Oak Ridge Farm
Terry
Jean
Seymour/Journa
Alexandra
Shiitake Logs Grow Fresh Mushrooms at Local Market
Alan Terry sells shiitake logs at the Farmers Market Christmas Fair with logs also online. The process uses oak logs inoculated with shiitake mycelium, a benign neglect period, and methods to trigger fruiting. Tim Manning and Lori Hanson shared logs at a party and cooked fresh mushrooms in spaghetti sauce, praising the thrifty, educational home-growing activity.
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Community Mercantile Co-op
Terry
Tim Manning
Lori Hanson
Manning
Lori
Alan Terry
Squirrels invade homes as winter food sources rise
Indoor squirrels become more active during January and February mating season. They decimate bird feeders and may nest inside houses. Species include tree ground and flying types common in Kansas, with fox and gray squirrels most frequent. They gnaw on pipes wiring and wood, leaving nests and fleas.
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Kansas
Squirrels invade gardens and homes need exclusion and safe control
Garden pests threaten living spaces with chewing forming fire hazards. Exclusion methods include sealing openings with hardware cloth, pruning trees, and placing bird feeders away from structures. Trapping may relocate or destroy, but flying squirrels are protected in Kansas. Contact horticulture staff for guidance.
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Kansas
Local Students to Perform Benefit Concert for Music Works
Musicians from Lawrence and Free State high schools will perform concertos Saturday at 3 p.m. in Ply mouth Congregational Church. A dessert reception will follow in the Mayflower Room. Donations fund music education in Lawrence Public Schools. Music Works! has raised over $60,000 since 2005. Board members include Bob and Katherine Dinsdale, Jim and Alison Nye, Edith Clowes, Margot Szabo, Bob Harrington, Marlene Penny and Bill Seidel.
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Lawrence
Free State
Lawrence Schools Foundation
Plymouth Congregational Church
Mayflower Room
Lawrence Public Schools
Demi Renault
Sam Huneke
Raquel Gonzales
Morteza Rabii
Anna Cook
Justine Ahle
Ashley Jeffrey
Xander Casad
Evan Hunter
Music Works
Schools Foundation
Bob and
Katherine Dinsdale
Jim
Alison Nye
Edith Clowes
Margot Szabo
Bob Harrington
Marlene Penny
Bill Seidel
Cast reunites for followup to Beau Jest at community theater
The cast and crew return for a sequel to the Jewish comedy Beau Jest as Sampson explains the plan, actors share pride in the project, and director Whitman embraces the challenge. The play centers on Miriam and Abe and their children Joel and Sarah as family dynamics spark laughs.
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Community Theater
Whitman
Sampson
James Sherman
Miriam
Abe
Joel
Sarah
Charles Decedue
Judith Scheff
Rachel Seymour
Journal-World Photo
Sarah May Shaffer
Sarah Goldman
Center
Peg Sampson
Lawrence Community Theatre
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