Growing Mushrooms on Logs | Milkwood

Growing mushrooms on logs increases your household resilience and adds flavour and nutrition to your diet. Yum! Learn the steps and access more resources here: bit.ly/grow-mushrooms-on-logs
The video above is a lesson from our complete beginner’s online course on Home Mushroom Cultivation - which is teaching folks all over the WORLD how to successfully grow stacks of gourmet and medicinal mushrooms at home, using low-waste and organic techniques - on cardboard, in buckets, on logs AND in gardens.
If this sounds like something you’d be into, you can find out more about this excellent online course here: bit.ly/mushies-course
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[@scottwieder7482]

I love the philosophy of mushrooms allowing us to eat the forest

[@Milkwood]

isn't it great? :)

[@emmawalters4592]

Thank you guys! this is so great and I am so grateful!

[@Milkwood]

It's a our pleasure lovely.. happy growing..

[@adriana7264]

I've been interested in growing mushrooms for a long time, but it seemed a bit difficult and expensive to get started. This is incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!

[@Milkwood]

It's our pleasure... Happy growing

[@neiljoy8465]

Hiya there @ Milkwood! Hey, how do I find your follow up video?

[@inrussian]

What other mushrooms do you recommend growing in logs besides shiitake

[@Milkwood]

There's a range of suggestions in this videos resources, but our top picks other than shiitake would be turkeytail, piopinnos and enokitake :)

[@Peter525521]

Hello Nick and Kirsten, I was wondering what the tool/bit is that Nick is using on the angle grinder at 7:35. Thanks very much for the info

[@Milkwood]

Heya peter - it's a 'Deluxe Express Drill Tool' which is permanently attached to a converted angle grinder - we got it from this mob, and it's great :) - www.fieldforest.net/product/tool-guide-use-comparison-maintenance/tool-guide-use-comparison-maintenance - you can also get special mushroom drill bits that go on drills (search on 'mushroom drill bit') but it's a slower process - depends what scale you're drilling logs at, I guess :) - best of luck!

[@Patrick12q3]

thanks love your videos they are so well produced and thought out. D you need to soak the logs before you do anything? what if your area doesnt experience much rain over summer? and how long between sotring them in your yard and putting them out to fruit or is there a sign when to start putting them out? : )

[@Milkwood]

You will need to wait for 2 summers (18 months from inoculation) to pass before your logs are ready to be put out for fruiting. If your area doesn't get much rainfall you can keep them moist with a hose. In terms of soaking, this can be done to trigger fruiting before stacking the logs for fruiting (it mimics a heavy rainfall) - to do this you would soak the logs for 12 - 24 hrs in cool fresh water, another way to trigger the fruiting is to hit the logs with a hammer (this mimics the free falling over/branch falling off a tree)