1. Get the Right Log. First, find yourself a chunk of hardwood. Shiitake mushrooms grow best on hardwood—oak if you have it, but birch, beech, maple, and other dense, non-aromatic hardwoods work ...

Shiitake mushrooms are widely cultivated edible fungi, prized for their deep umami flavor and numerous health benefits.

Find out what nutrients are in shiitake mushrooms and learn how they can help with everything from heart health to immune support. ... Korea, and China, where it grows on fallen logs.

After between three and five years, the logs become shiitake mushrooms. Watch the full video to see how Lipow and his team grow mushrooms and search the forest to spot them in the wild.

Of five nonnative tree species invasive in the southeastern U.S., only logs of Triadica sebifera, Chinese tallowtree, successfully produced edible shiitake mushrooms.

The Oregon State University Extension Service welcomes the community to attend a workshop on producing Shiitake mushrooms on December 9.

The Grow Your Own Shiitake Mushrooms Workshop was held at the Cloquet Public Library People met inside the library to learn about shiitake mushrooms and how to grow them at home through a hands-on ...

These mushrooms are notoriously difficult to cultivate on a commercial scale — especially when using the 1,000-year-old Japanese technique of growing them on logs.

We do shiitake, golden oysters and chestnuts; they’re a capped mushroom that is really delicious. We also do the Wine Cap Stropharia. I grow them in fresh mulch.

After the button mushroom, the shiitake mushroom is the most commonly cultivated mushroom in the world, according to Cornell University. The practice of growing shiitake mushrooms intentionally on ...