Cultivating Mushrooms at Home
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My winter project: An exotic edible (and medicinal) mushroom farm
I busied myself this winter by creating a “mushroom log farm” on my property. I am hopeful for the eventual appearance of nearly 100 pounds per year of 14 different varieties of exotic edible and medicinal mushrooms. Continue reading
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Shaggy Parasols on the Table
Here at Shortsinwoods, we harvested a huge crop of Shaggy Parasols (Chlorophylum rhacodes) this Fall. These mushrooms dehydrate very easily, and after doing this we found ourselves with about a half dozen gallon-size bags full! Continue reading
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Do You Want To Start With Cultivating Something Healthy, Easy, and Delicious? Try Oyster Mushrooms! (Part 2)
How to cultivate delicious Oyster Mushrooms at home. Continue reading
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Why Do Oysters Need a Bath? (Part 1)
Growing Oysters from straw logs is fast and relatively easy, but doesn’t work as well out of doors, so I decided to go a different route. I purchased about 200 Oyster spawn plugs, little wooden dowels impregnated with the mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus … Continue reading
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Chanterelles Shazam: A Base Mixture for Dry Saute’ing Chanterelle Mushrooms
There are two great ways to prepare Chanterelle mushrooms, in my opinion. One is Cream of Chanterelle Soup, and the other is a base mixture for dry saute’ing Chanterelles, which I call Chanterelle Shazam. Continue reading
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More Shaggy Parasols! And One of Them’s a Monster …
More about the amazing Shaggy Parasol mushrooms growing in a maple leaf culture in my backyard. Continue reading
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Shaggy Parasols: Growing Them in Your Own Backyard
Here’s how I cultivated a colony of delicious Shaggy Parasol mushrooms in a maple leaf pile in my backyard. Continue reading
Mushroom Obsession 