Shitake Mushrooms!

The weather was nice this weekend, so we inoculated some more logs for our shitake mushroom crop. This is all part of our forest farming that we are doing up in the acreage behind our home on our mountain. It is always a family affair when we work on our mushrooms.

Dean has 30 Oak logs in the back of his Jeep truck. He unloaded them in the upper part of our barn where we worked on them together.

The guys drill the holes in the logs, I inoculate them with the mushroom spores & Dahlia covers the inoculated holes with melted bees wax. The logs will then rest for about 8 months. We will then begin soaking them on a rotation schedule in our stream & then stack them in a "Lincoln Log" pattern. They will then begin to "fruit" & be ready for harvesting. We really enjoyed our first harvest last spring. Dean's mushroom soup was scrumptious. Mr. Tom at the Inn next door still raves about it & is asking for more!