<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0mNacsCO8PI/S_3jIVuceXI/AAAAAAAAAP8/RDdgNPGu05Q/s1600/crops+002.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0mNacsCO8PI/S_3jIVuceXI/AAAAAAAAAP8/RDdgNPGu05Q/s320/crops+002.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475782454362798450" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0mNacsCO8PI/S_3jgt3gd5I/AAAAAAAAAQE/IlMU6SLfslo/s1600/crops+009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 188px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0mNacsCO8PI/S_3jgt3gd5I/AAAAAAAAAQE/IlMU6SLfslo/s320/crops+009.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475782873160120210" /></a><br />Tonight is a monumental night in the Boehm-Goodnick "unprocessed" house...we harvested our first non-herb crops! (Yes, folks, that's right, it's the little things.)  Thanks to the Berkeley based urban mushroom farming venture BTTR (Back To The Roots), we grew pearl oyster mushrooms in our bedroom! (They require little light, and it is our shadiest spot.  I promise you that we don't have some kind of sick mushroom fetish.)  <a href="http://www.bttrventures.com/">BTTR</a> uses recycled coffee grounds from <a href="http://www.peets.com/fvpage.asp?rdir=1&">Peet's</a>  - claiming to divert 7000 pounds of grounds from landfills weekly -- instead using them as the "soil" for the fungus.  10 days with daily misting and voila, a hefty bunch of meaty shrooms.<br /><br />We gave the fungi a quick toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and popped them in the oven for a few minutes.  Then, we spooned them over a bed of mesclun lettuce harvested from the farm on the deck.  All in all, a fabulously unprocessed meal.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0mNacsCO8PI/S_3j2jTJSyI/AAAAAAAAAQM/vBGTWX0tBmo/s1600/crops+016.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0mNacsCO8PI/S_3j2jTJSyI/AAAAAAAAAQM/vBGTWX0tBmo/s320/crops+016.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475783248280374050" /></a>