The Would-Be Farm: A Drum-roll Please!

That's a load of shiitake.

Okay, it's a handful of shiitake, enough for Mr. Linton and me to both enjoy one mushroom uncooked, and then plenty for a pan full of butter-sautéd beauties to go into his ommette and on top of his leftover pizza.

​In a word, they were amazing. So much flavor in a tender bite of fungus!

For all I know, mushrooms have been popping up all summer, but we happened to be on hand in time to beat the squirrels and the slugs to harvest this autumn.

Slugs like shiitake. So do squirrels.

He contemplates the shiitake.

A small harvest, perhaps, but a genuine farming success uncomplicated by late frost, drought, tent caterpillars, etc., etc.

​The Would-Be Farm is. Hurrah.