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Unit 4: Forest Farming Mushrooms.

Objectives: The video for this unit provides step-by-step instructions for inoculating logs with shiitake spawn. By the close of this unit, you will:
  • be familiar with the log inoculation method of Shiitake cultivation
  • be able to identify other valuable forest mushrooms
  • have been introduced to cultivation practices of various salable fungi.


Watch the Shiitake Mushroom Video (requires RealPlayer):
    Videos in the unit:
  • John Boyle | Shiitake Mushroom Innoculation

Required reading:

Growing Gourmet Mushrooms from A to Z! - Prepared and published by Cornell Cooperative Extension, Clinton County through a Renewable Resources Extension Program (RREA) grant. Authored by Bob Beyfuss, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County. June, 1999.

Links:

Farming Exotic Mushrooms in the Forest - Agroforestry Notes #13
USDA NAtional Agroforestry Center

The Role of Mushrooms in Nature by Paul Stamets - The Overstory #86

The American Mushroom Institute

Specialty Mushrooms - Royse, D.J. 1996. Specialty mushrooms. p. 464-475. In: J. Janick (ed.), Progress in new crops. ASHS Press, Arlington, VA.

Mushroom Cultivation and Marketing - ATTRA
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Unit 1
Introduction
Unit 2
Site Design
Unit 3
Ginseng and Goldenseal
Unit 4
Mushrooms
Unit 5
Maple
Unit 6
Marketing