Hi Greg!my name is Stephen Judy i'm regenerative farmer in New Mexico and I'm thinking about growing mushrooms, glad to see your channel! thanks for the great info !
I used to watch every video you made, but i haven’t been watching for a while. This video is great information and a beautiful video. I’m going to be watching all your videos again. You’re such an inspiration and are putting out an amazing product from your knowledge base. Thank you.
Tried the ones in a cow pie once. They didn't taste real great, but man, you talk about a moment in nature. 😂 And again, thank you Sir for all this knowledge you share with us! Greg, over your videos you've shown me that you're a great guy, and well now a fungi! I had to. 🇺🇸
Very cool I had a couple red oaks come down this summer I could probably do this. We've lost thousands of oaks in western Mass. Gypsy moths 3 years in a row. Thanks Greg
Hey Mr.Judy! Thanks for the lesson, again. Another commentator stated that there is no nutritional value in Shiitake Mushrooms? My first thought was BS. So as this video is playing I went to Nutrition Data. To the contrary. High percentages of minerals and omega 3&6. I don't know about you but those are nutrients the human body needs. Oh what ever happened to the litter of pups?
A lot of mushrooms supply vitamin D, with enhanced levels if they have been put in the sun for a bit. Shiitake mushrooms are also supposed to be good for the immune system
Clouded Leopard well he did mention soaking to get more fruitings per year. And with them producing for up to 7 years, perhaps you can use older cuttings. I’m just thinking that the logs naturally dry out, aka seasoning. And once their moisture content is too low the log may no longer produce the nutrients the shores need. Just guessing. My recommendation: try it out. Greg said his logs are from tree trimmings, so you might find that to be a good way too
You can do it whenever, but it's best to cut them during sap run in the late winter/early spring. Fresh is good, but if theyre too fresh then the log is still alive to fight the spawn, and can weaken it. I wait a week or so. Usually two.
You guys have a pet bird or something? What is making that sound at 8:26 Please give us a 360 degree scan so we get the lay of the land before you guys tunnel vision for 11 minutes on your admittedly fascinating content, thanks
Does it matter the age of the cut logs before you start the spawn plug process? Fresh cut verses say a log that's 6-18 months seasoned already? And is there other types of mushrooms that grow well on oak that you could grow along with the shittake in the same system or would that cause issues... I mean not within the same log but say you want 20 logs of shittake and 20 logs of whatever all in the same row if you only have room for one row
Jessica, if the log is too old - more than a month or two at most - it will have already been "seeded" by naturally occurring spawn and will not support shitakes. You want to cut logs after some of the sap is settled and drill and inject spawn fairly quickly for it to work. Biggest issue we had was not monitoring moisture levels. Greg is right: if they get too dry it kills the spawn and you lose the whole thing. Good luck.
@@valhallaproject9560 ok thanks for the info...I don't know terrible much about trees and we don't have any oaks of our own so I'd have to have my brother in law collect logs for me so my next question is how do you know or what time of year will the sap be settled...I noted that one of Greg's log dates was in March but I'm wondering if there's going to be variability on that occurrence due to climate/growing zone... I'm in US 4b
@@jessicah2345 Best time is fall/winter. Worse time is mid-summer but even that would probably work. If you brother in law is collecting ask him to focus on the large branches that most people don't want anyway. Red or white oak is best but any oak species will perform for you. Good luck.
Thanks for sharingk You use the healer too for bringing in or out the cows I saw you even have a big caucasian cattle dog. Also for guarding the cows ?
If you don’t force spawn by soaking the logs in water overnight, how do you know or predict when you’ll get mushrooms? Do you just wait until they naturally want to pop up?
I have just a theory as an unpravticed amature, but some of the highly parasytic fungi like lions mane or reishi, or any of the other liek turkey tail etc, if you cut the tree and leave like a 2' etc stump you can drill grain spawn plugs and harvest mushrooms off the stumps for years without having to use a machine to do the same job. Of course it wont be fast, but it will give you the best quality fungi that are bred to be resilient to all conditions (during fruiting and before, sunlight, wind, bacteria, other fungi, etc etc). I dunno, its all cost time benefit, but there is options. Best regards
Anyone do regenerative ranching in Virginia or West Virginia? I live in Northern Virginia and would love to connect with someone who is putting into practice what Greg teaches.
We have some huge logs that are no where close to competing with 4-8" diameter logs in mushroom production. Your right, big logs last longer but do not produce many mushrooms. Heck of a lot of extra weight your packing around for no reward.
You need a very clean lab type enviernment for spawn production, and mushroom breeding. The equiptment isnt cheap, and it would take lot of production to justify owning. It's it's own highly skilled enterprise just like seed production.
@@4philipp They're highly cultivated, and not too competitive. Like a grain or vegetable. A friend told me Japanese farmers used to pound fresh picked mushrooms into cut oak logs with a job specific mallet before lab cultivation, and it was very difficult.
@@4philipp I don't know, but I think they seem as domestic as egg plant or sweet corn. I havent seen any show up around my shiitake yard even though there are oaks around. If you want to propigate mushrooms in a non sterile setting oysters are very aggressive, and they'll eat anything that's mostly carbon. If you wanted you could look for some and use your local strain. There's a lot of good info online about low tech oyster propagation.
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Had some of your mushrooms last year, awesome! Put up about 20 logs in spring and just started harvesting my own. Thanks Greg
This is so cool! Thank y’all
Field and Forest are great folks.
Hi Greg!my name is Stephen Judy i'm regenerative farmer in New Mexico and I'm thinking about growing mushrooms, glad to see your channel! thanks for the great info !
I used to watch every video you made, but i haven’t been watching for a while. This video is great information and a beautiful video. I’m going to be watching all your videos again. You’re such an inspiration and are putting out an amazing product from your knowledge base. Thank you.
I’m planting oaks on my farm in Australia next winter so I can do this in 10 years hahahahaha
Thanks Greg
look into coppicing/pollarding
I was so hoping you would do a mushroom video soon! Thank you so much for this information Greg! Don't forget about the sawmill!
Tried the ones in a cow pie once. They didn't taste real great, but man, you talk about a moment in nature. 😂 And again, thank you Sir for all this knowledge you share with us! Greg, over your videos you've shown me that you're a great guy, and well now a fungi! I had to. 🇺🇸
Get a cheap dehydrator. Slice and dehydrate, put them in a jar on shelf, they'll keep forever. Great for adding to sauces, I prefer the texture.
We have two commercial dehydrators, they work well on mushrooms.
Very cool I had a couple red oaks come down this summer I could probably do this. We've lost thousands of oaks in western Mass. Gypsy moths 3 years in a row. Thanks Greg
That was great . Just need to source my logs . Love shitakis
She does a great job working the camera 🍻
Want to give this a try. Keep on keeping on Greg
Thanks for the info
Do you know how much we love you, Greg Judy? Well, we do!
Great video and knowledgeable. Thank you for sharing and I'm trying this this year
Hello Mr. Judy,
I've been seeing you where these Green Pastures Farm hats and wondered where I could get one ? Thanks for the great videos !
I dont know how I just saw this! Thats really cool!!
Great video! Thanks!
Thank you very much for the interesting video, Sir. :):):) I like mushrooms.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!🤗💛🤗
Hey Mr.Judy!
Thanks for the lesson, again.
Another commentator stated that there is no nutritional value in Shiitake Mushrooms? My first thought was BS. So as this video is playing I went to Nutrition Data. To the contrary. High percentages of minerals and omega 3&6. I don't know about you but those are nutrients the human body needs.
Oh what ever happened to the litter of pups?
A lot of mushrooms supply vitamin D, with enhanced levels if they have been put in the sun for a bit. Shiitake mushrooms are also supposed to be good for the immune system
This is a very interesting video, thanks for sharing.
Great video. Thank you for inspiration.
Jan, Recipe book please! 😊
Great information....😎
Oops, saw you describe the labels at 6:29, thanks!
thank you for sharing! i just bought some spores and will have a go at this on eucalyptus logs as that is what we are clearing in our silvopasture.
How did the mushrooms grow on eucalyptus?
@@allenferry9632 didnt work. But i still will try again. Nothing always works first time!
@allenferry9632 never have tried that wood. We use oak
Great Information thank you so much 🏆
Greg, another interesting thing on your farm. Do you have any problems with ants or termites on the logs???
Only slugs
I luv ‘em
So off to the store I go. 🍄
Does the log need to be freshly cut for this to work?
He did mention sap, as well as moisture content, so I would assume a somewhat fresh log.
@@4philipp I was hoping some of my older stuff could be soaked as he described.
Clouded Leopard well he did mention soaking to get more fruitings per year. And with them producing for up to 7 years, perhaps you can use older cuttings. I’m just thinking that the logs naturally dry out, aka seasoning. And once their moisture content is too low the log may no longer produce the nutrients the shores need. Just guessing.
My recommendation: try it out.
Greg said his logs are from tree trimmings, so you might find that to be a good way too
You can do it whenever, but it's best to cut them during sap run in the late winter/early spring. Fresh is good, but if theyre too fresh then the log is still alive to fight the spawn, and can weaken it. I wait a week or so. Usually two.
@@swamp-yankee Thank you.
You guys have a pet bird or something? What is making that sound at 8:26
Please give us a 360 degree scan so we get the lay of the land before you guys tunnel vision for 11 minutes on your admittedly fascinating content, thanks
One of their dogs has a squeaky toy, I think a ball.
Does it matter the age of the cut logs before you start the spawn plug process? Fresh cut verses say a log that's 6-18 months seasoned already? And is there other types of mushrooms that grow well on oak that you could grow along with the shittake in the same system or would that cause issues... I mean not within the same log but say you want 20 logs of shittake and 20 logs of whatever all in the same row if you only have room for one row
Jessica, if the log is too old - more than a month or two at most - it will have already been "seeded" by naturally occurring spawn and will not support shitakes. You want to cut logs after some of the sap is settled and drill and inject spawn fairly quickly for it to work. Biggest issue we had was not monitoring moisture levels. Greg is right: if they get too dry it kills the spawn and you lose the whole thing. Good luck.
@@valhallaproject9560 ok thanks for the info...I don't know terrible much about trees and we don't have any oaks of our own so I'd have to have my brother in law collect logs for me so my next question is how do you know or what time of year will the sap be settled...I noted that one of Greg's log dates was in March but I'm wondering if there's going to be variability on that occurrence due to climate/growing zone... I'm in US 4b
@@jessicah2345 Best time is fall/winter. Worse time is mid-summer but even that would probably work. If you brother in law is collecting ask him to focus on the large branches that most people don't want anyway. Red or white oak is best but any oak species will perform for you. Good luck.
@@valhallaproject9560 thank you so much!
How does he build that structure to hold up the logs? Is that a pole between t posts? I’m trying to build something similar
I want to grow shiitake mushrooms on longan wood. Can we grow them?
Do the ends of the logs rest on the soil?
The log ends sit on cedat slabs from our sawmilling operation
Thanks Greg, how do you make the decision that you really do need to water?
Thanks for sharingk
You use the healer too for bringing in or out the cows
I saw you even have a big caucasian cattle dog. Also for guarding the cows ?
I'm wondering how you keep the critters from eating your hiitaki? We have tiny gnats and slugs, as well as bandicoots and bush rats eating ours.
Can you grow mushrooms on eucalyptus tree logs?!
Do you have any issues with deer eating the mushrooms? Or woodpeckers digging out the holes?
When you first inoculate the log, keep them covered with a breathable tarp or the woodpeckers will clean out the holes.
How many years have you been growing mushrooms .
How soon after you cut the logs do you inoculate?
7-14 days is best
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher perfect thanks.
i love the earthy steak taste
How do your crops fair with any rodents in the area? Do you need to control for rats or anything to protect your mushrooms?
Rodents don’t bother us, we have a healthy population of hawks and owls
Greg, do you need to start with green wood? Or will dead wood work. I’m guessing the bark needs to be on when starting the spore!
The trees need to be green when you put the spores in them.
If you don’t force spawn by soaking the logs in water overnight, how do you know or predict when you’ll get mushrooms? Do you just wait until they naturally want to pop up?
I have just a theory as an unpravticed amature, but some of the highly parasytic fungi like lions mane or reishi, or any of the other liek turkey tail etc, if you cut the tree and leave like a 2' etc stump you can drill grain spawn plugs and harvest mushrooms off the stumps for years without having to use a machine to do the same job. Of course it wont be fast, but it will give you the best quality fungi that are bred to be resilient to all conditions (during fruiting and before, sunlight, wind, bacteria, other fungi, etc etc). I dunno, its all cost time benefit, but there is options.
Best regards
I’ve spawned stumps. It takes a long time and is prone to contamination- but it does work!
Excellent info!
I am growing other mushrooms now, not shiitake. Can't you get your own spores and inoculate them so you don't have to buy them?
That is a question I ask at almost every mushrooms video. For reliable commercial or small growers scale it seems the best way to buy them.
How deep the hole into the log.
1/2 inch
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Anyone do regenerative ranching in Virginia or West Virginia? I live in Northern Virginia and would love to connect with someone who is putting into practice what Greg teaches.
Diameter of hole to drill?
3/8" wide by .5" deep
The casein layer on raw mushrooms does not breakdown in the gut. Slight heat required to make mushrooms nutrients fully bio available.
Why are the logs tagged on their ends?
Date colonized 6:20
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Can you eat these
You can’t eat the logs, but you can eat the mushrooms.
albrownmd yeah obviously
Owen.h99 😂
The bigger the log the more years of harvest
Only if it has more sapwood.
We have some huge logs that are no where close to competing with 4-8" diameter logs in mushroom production. Your right, big logs last longer but do not produce many mushrooms. Heck of a lot of extra weight your packing around for no reward.
Why can't you spread the spawn from your own trees? You should be able to innoculate from your own sources.
You need a very clean lab type enviernment for spawn production, and mushroom breeding. The equiptment isnt cheap, and it would take lot of production to justify owning. It's it's own highly skilled enterprise just like seed production.
Joe that’s what I hear but the question remains: how do they propage in the wild on their own? That’s a process we like to use to our advantage
@@4philipp They're highly cultivated, and not too competitive. Like a grain or vegetable. A friend told me Japanese farmers used to pound fresh picked mushrooms into cut oak logs with a job specific mallet before lab cultivation, and it was very difficult.
Joe well, that still doesn’t explain how they do it on their own.
@@4philipp I don't know, but I think they seem as domestic as egg plant or sweet corn. I havent seen any show up around my shiitake yard even though there are oaks around. If you want to propigate mushrooms in a non sterile setting oysters are very aggressive, and they'll eat anything that's mostly carbon. If you wanted you could look for some and use your local strain. There's a lot of good info online about low tech oyster propagation.
zombie spores dont eat