'Shrooms

I would never thought to grow mushrooms-thanks again Becca and Eric, but they seem to be pretty easy. We had an oak cut down and saved the wood. The tree was growing into the inn so we had to have it removed anyway. We ordered 100 Maitake and 100 Shitake spore plugs from Living Whole Foods. In December, I drilled holes in the logs and hammered the spores on wooden plugs in and then covered the wholes with bees wax. Now we just wait, we should start seeing mushrooms in about another year--

The inoculated logs-

                                   

















                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       


Another view-If you look closely at the center log you will see white spots. Those are the spores covered with wax.