Q: I love mushrooms and heard that shiitake mushrooms can be grown on logs in my backyard. Do you know anything about that? - Phil from Campbell Hall A: Happy Spring, Phil. Yes, I do know something ...

Shiitake mushrooms are supposed to be one of the easiest mushrooms to cultivate. Partly because you don’t have to deal with soils and substrates and partly because inoculating logs with just one type ...

Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) mushrooms are good for you--and shiitake byproducts can be good for other crops. These mushrooms contain high-molecular-weight polysaccharides (HMWP), which some studies ...

Holy shiitake: Shiitakes fruiting on the log at Ivy Creek Family Farm in Barndardsville. Shiitake season runs April through October, though most of the work to grow shiitakes is happening now by our ...

Growing up, I was never too fond of mushrooms. To me, their only purpose was to ruin a perfectly good pizza. As I got older, I started to warm up slightly toward raw button mushrooms in salads – with ...

Roughly 300 oak and sugar maple logs from upstate forests were delivered to the industrial waters off Red Hook on Friday aboard the sail-powered cargo vessel Apollonia. They will be used to cultivate ...

Dan Lipow is the founder of specialty foods purveyor Foraged Feasts. Lipow and his team forage mushrooms and greens, which they then sell at farmer’s markets, but in addition to foraging in the wild, ...

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