Shiitake Mushroom Logs Available

I want shiitakes! Click to get your logs.

Over the past 7 years, it has been fun and rewarding from late winter to early spring to utilize small diameter oak logs from the forest for shiitake mushroom logs. There is something deeply satisfying about turning wood into a most delicious and nutritious form of protein. This year I completed a Forest Stand Improvement through the Conservation Stewardship Program via the NRCS. This included reducing the forest stand density quite a bit over the 15 forested acres that constitute Mountain Jewel land project.

Because of this, I have a lot of trees to utilize for mushroom logs! So this season, I decided to make more shiitake logs than usual and offer some for sale. After many seasons of inoculating mushroom logs here, I have gotten some feedback loops.

One of those is that, if one uses larger logs (5-6″ diameter), the logs yield shiitakes for quite some time. They’re harder to move in the short term, but last longer and provide more fruit.

I like to do this because once the mycelium runs, it can eat and fruit for a while! I have some shiitake logs plugged 7 years ago that fruited this fall!

I have logs from 4-6″ in diameter. They’re all from recently felled white oaks, plugged with shiitake spawn from Field and Forest (Wide Range 46 and Beltane), and holes are plugged with cheese wax.

If you’re excited for shiitakes, all you have to do is keep the log watered and out of direct sun and wait. The log should produce within a year.

I’d love some! Here’s the link to the shop.