We took advantage of a beautiful day on Monday to cut down our mushroom trees.  Logs for mushrooms should be cut from healthy living trees so that your spawn doesn't have any wild fungi to compete with, and February is the perfect time of year to cut the fully dormant trees.

The type of tree to cut for your mushroom depends on the species you want to grow.  Read more....

This post is part of our Innoculating Mushroom Logs series.  Read all of the entries: How to choose backyard mushroom varieties Preparing for your mushrooms --- cutting logs Shiitake innoculation Useful tool: Spade drill bit How to melt the wax Recording mushroom logs And don't miss the related series How to Cultivate Edible Mushrooms for Free

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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