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It's So Easy! How to make Shiitake Mushroom Logs!

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What happens here

The presenter introduces the project of cultivating shiitake mushrooms on hardwood logs. He displays examples of existing logs that have been producing mushrooms for two years. He shows a bag of 'Mojo Plugs' (shiitake mushroom plug spawn) and explains that these will be inserted into freshly cut logs. He emphasizes that the logs should be hardwood (maple, white oak, or red oak) and have been cut for about three years. He also mentions the benefit of dehydrating harvested mushrooms for long-term storage.

Goal: Understand the project and gather necessary mushroom spawn.

Tools and materials

  • Shiitake Mushroom Plug Spawn Mojo Plugs — Inoculating logs for mushroom growth

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hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer and welcome to another beautiful day here on the Stoney Ridge farm fall is in the air we've got cool weather and today we're going to be cutting down some small trees here in this thick brush E area to make shiitake mushroom logs so we're gonna show you how it all works exactly what you need to do to have success at growing shiitake mushrooms on your farm or your place or your little homestead so come along is we have some fun teaching you how to make shiitake mushroom logs alright [Music] so what better place to start this video than right here beside our old shitake mushroom logs and these are hardwood logs that we harvested about three years ago and they've been producing shitake mushrooms for about the past two years what we're going to be doing is inserting these plugs and these are a hundred mushroom plugs this is what they look like and you'll get to see them a whole lot more here in just a minute but these are shiitake mushroom plugs they come with a instruction manual these are called mojo plugs but there are several sources I'll post a link down in the video description I've had good success with this company and they're out of Salt Lake City so what we have here are shitake mushroom logs that I cut like I said maybe two or three years ago and we've had some heavy rains and whenever we get a heavy rain we start producing more shiitake mushrooms and you can see these mushrooms are starting to come in right there they'll come in and they will blossom out and all of these logs will be covered with big nice shiitake mushrooms now when you harvest these mushrooms they're gonna come out as a bunch of mushrooms so you can take a dehydrator and dehydrate these mushrooms and they keep forever and when you're ready to eat them you just soak them in water for about 30 minutes and they plump right back up to the mushrooms and they lose no flavor they're absolutely delicious so first thing we're gonna do is get in this little area this is down by our waterfall area and we're gonna cut out some trees that are undesirable that we don't want what I have found is that maple does a good job and white oak and or red oak does a good job we're gonna cut them into links I'll talk about that and I'll show you how we insert the plugs

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