ZOM grows mushrooms on waste-products like used cardboard which saves hundreds of dollars and saves immeasurable amounts of forest and wildlife by not clearcutting temperate and tropical forests for agriculture. Our mycogardens use “waste” products like sustainably harvested logs from local forests or locally sourced wood chips. Mycogardens contribute to soil restoration and we are now on to our fifth soil restoration project this year. We cultivate mushrooms using cardboard, logs, and woodchips on our experimental farm in Oregon and have diverted at least 100 boxes of cardboard from entering landfills. Basically, our farm tasks operate off of waste products! So far we’ve reused about 1000 lbs of wood waste, including bolts of wood, and roughly 25 yards of wood chips and sawdust.