photo:  compliments of Wikipedia 

 

 

Remember all those trees that fell down last week from hurricane Zeta?  Well, some of them on Beaconhill were White oaks:  the most desirable logs for growing shiitake mushrooms.  

 

Since August, I've been looking for white oaks to cut down, in order to plant my mushroom spawn plugs.  So now we don't have to cut down anything.  They fell over in all the wind.  And FREE for us to harvest.  Jon got out his chain saw, and cut several 3 foot logs.  Now all we have to do is plug them.  

 

The process seems simple enough;  and in a year or so we'll have mushrooms, growing in our own backyard.  I'll let you know when they're ready to harvest.  I have an idea that, just like the garden, it all happens at the same time, giving us more than we can possibly use.  

 

We're planting shiitake, red reishi, and chicken of the woods.  I'm SO excited to try something new.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!