What’s a Yoke?
I’m Yoke… well my name is Christian Przybyla (Prih-zuh-bella) but most of my friends call me Yoke. I am the owner and sole employee of Yoke’s Urban Mushrooms.
There are many interpretations of the word yoke, but the one I find meaningful is “to become joined” because the combination of all of God’s creatures inherently does more work, more efficiently, than man could ever dream of doing alone.
Yoke’s Urban Mushrooms does everything we can to join the efforts of these creatures to facilitate a sustainable farm to fork operation aimed at improving the health of the soil and leaving the earth a more organic place than we found it.
The Philosophy
We steer towards sustainability by focusing on soil health, growing crops on the soil, and then growing mushrooms on those crops. The Carbon that was stored in the plant is rapidly broken down by the mushroom mycelium and eventually planted strait into the soil where it will produce mushrooms until running out of energy. The Carbon that was buried will then be readily available for the beneficial microbes that increase efficiencies in the soil where future crops will be grown. The majority of land at YUM is not irrigated and only receives annual rainfall which is more than enough to grow the crops on which the mushrooms are grown.