Growing your own mushrooms on logs is a way to enjoy the freshest varieties, but what are the best logs for mushroom plugs? Logs for mushroom growing may be purchased pre-sown and ready to grow. You ...

Spawn plugs before and after the mushroom mycelium has grown on them. Learn how to make mushroom spawn at home on a mushroom grow log to kick-start your backyard permaculture forest. If you’re ...

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 ...

PORT ORCHARD — Bob Gilby, who operates Rokalu Farms on Glenwood Road Southwest with his wife, Donna Branch-Gilby, has spent the past several months studying up on all things having to do with ...

Once a log is ready for mushroom growing, Judd drills around 50 holes in an evenly spaced pattern, so the mushrooms have room to fruit. He then fills the holes with a paraffin wax and taps in the ...

Using the raft or trenched log method, you can produce an overwhelming number of fruitbodies in a single flush. All the mushrooms on this colonized raft are considered one organism, because the ...

Have you ever thought about growing your own mushrooms? We have! A mushroom growing kit offers an enjoyable, uncomplicated way to grow food. Mushroom kits are low-maintenance and don’t require the ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small ...

Tourists visiting Kew Gardens in southwest London have shown interest in learning more about mushroom cultivation in the kitchen garden to increase crop yield per square foot and enhance soil ...

The mushroom room at Village Crest Farm is brimming with oyster mushrooms, both white and pearl, plus lion’s mane mushrooms and golden mushrooms. They’re thriving in a space that’s kept at about 60 ...

It’s a cold November day, but the 3,000 logs stacked inside Nicola Macpherson’s greenhouse are warm and dry. Plastic mesh is draped to form a roof above them, shielding the space from sunlight.