Grow-it-yourself ornaments
Most people probably have at least a few homemade holiday ornaments. But how about home-grown ornaments.
Ecovate -- the Green Island-based company -- is selling a grow-it-yourself kit for growing holiday ornaments out of the company's mushroom material. "Six plastic ornaments filled with mushrooms that you grow yourself. You rehydrate the mushroom material, then fill the ornaments, and let them grow."
The kits are $30. You have to order before December 14 to have them by Christmas, according to the website.
The ornament kits are just one of the items in Ecovative's online store. You can also buy a general-use bag of the company's mushroom material. There's also a small line of furniture that the company's recently starting making/growing.
As you know, Ecovative was started by two RPI grads about a decade ago and it's now based in Green Island. It uses what are essentially mushroom roots to bind leftover agricultural materials into various environmentally-friendly packing materials and fiber boards.
photo via Ecovative
... said KGB about Drawing: What's something that brought you joy this year?