An afternoon Cultivating Shiitake Mushrooms(Day 1)
Yesterday we spent a few hours helping out at the Boyter Family Farm in Fonthill to learn about the process of cultivating mushrooms by working hand in hand with them. Here are a few photos from the first stage of cultivating shiitake mushrooms with a brief description below each as well as a link with more in depth information if you’re interested.
Violet and the pile of cut Maple logs, we used for cultivating. It’s recommended to use a hard wood for Shiitake Mushrooms such as oak, birch and beech along with a few others are also options for the process. Drilled holes for inoculation approximately 1 inch in depth.Drilling the holes to later fill with shiitake spores.Melting bees wax using an old crock pot as a double boiler. Hardened block of bees wax that was later melted for capping the holes filled with spores.Using a bent spoon to cover the holes. Maple logs filled with mushroom spores and capped with bees wax.
