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<\/span><\/h2>\nShortcut Mushrooms<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nWe spend our weekends trying to solve things \u2013 improve function, streamline processes, enhance life. Sometimes that means beer on the porch, more often we\u2019re planning, digging, sawing, rigging, fixing, tarping, collecting, hustling, etc., etc.<\/span><\/p>\nWe\u2019re often thinking about quality of life; quality of what we consume and ecological costs of its production. We are working towards a sustainable future for our 400-acre family tree farm, largely walnut and oak. It\u2019s what we try to solve it on the weekend. <\/span><\/p>\n
The tree farm was planted, mainly by our dad, starting in 1989. Twenty years later, every other oak needs to be thinned to give space those remaining. That\u2019s thousands of trees that are too small for lumber and too valuable for chipping.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2026Thousands that are perfect for mushrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n
Every Shortcut mushroom is naturally grown on sustainably harvested trees with locally sourced spawn. It takes a lot of energy to produce food, but we spend our weekends streamlining; mimizing plastic, reducing transportation, optimizing and innovating, so that we can produce ultra-low-impact, extra-buttery-tasting mushrooms. We grow shitake, oyster and namako. <\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nWatershed Reserve<\/h2>\n
In the early 90\u2019s our dad started making real estate investments. In 1998 he bought some farmland in Waterloo, Wisconsin and began planting trees with the inherent resolve that trees are good.<\/span><\/p>\n
The farm is on a glacial striation called Mud Creek, on the Crawfish River, part and parcel to the upper Rock River water basin. The south-central Rock River basin is one of 24 Wisconsin water basins. It\u2019s landscape was once covered in thick forest, oak-savanna, prairies and wetlands that filtered and maintained its water. <\/span><\/p>\n
Today, 75 percent of the land in the Rock River basin is agricultural. We\u2019re challenged with runoff, groundwater contamination, low urban groundwater levels and flooding. Ecosystem services are failing, but we have a generational head-start on rehabilitation. Watershed Reserve has grown to 400 acres of over 300,000 trees. The plantation is a mix of conifers and hardwoods; fast-growing spruce and pine protecting the more vulnerable oak and walnut. There are x number of acres enrolled in long term Conservation Reserve Programs, which means the trees planted there will continue growing and improving water quality for decades. <\/span><\/p>\n
We\u2019re not taking shortcuts. Restoration is slow and steady; sustainability is spending the weekend trying to solve things. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u201d18px\u201d]<\/div>
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<\/p>\nOur vision<\/h2>\n
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The team<\/h1>\n
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The Shortridges<\/h2>\n
Alex and Ryan met in Minneapolis and were married in 2014. They recently moved from Milwaukee to Menomonee Falls. They have two little boys, Henry and Max. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text]
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