Growing Mushrooms in a Small Farm Setting: Field & Forest Products Field Day Recap

This summer we were able to host a field day at our farm facility to introduce attendees to the different methods available to grow mushrooms. We primarily use our farm location as a venue to test different mushroom growing methods, test mushroom strain maintenance, and keep ourselves up to speed on what's happening in the practical cultivation world.
Follow along for a brief recap of the day!
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Buried Blocks and the Totem Method
01:39 Introduction to Wine Cap
02:32 Indoor Mushrooms
03:15 How to Inoculate a Log
03:58 In the Greenhouse
05:35 Sustainable Forestry
06:47 How to Stack Logs and Log Research

[@kevingoodwin8157]

I am having a Mushroom Inoculation Workshop today... I will definitely be promoting Field and Forest. Thank Yall...

[@FieldandForestProducts]

Hope your workshop went swimmingly!

[@andreblanchard9786]

Awesome little video to share, very well done & much appreciated!😉👍

[@migueljose2944]

We have been buying our mushroom spawn and supplies from Field and Forest for 7 years, mostly shiitake and reishi, and i can tell you this company is wonderful to deal with. They are very knowledgeable, responsive, patient, and always follow through. We're in central Illinois on 53 acres.
Thank you Field and Forest

[@thehandymancan5112]

You folks have excellent videos very informative content. Thanks

[@FieldandForestProducts]

Thank you!

[@nealseidler7732]

Nice video. I have been growing Shiitake for 8 years on my farm in Germantown WI. This year I had the right sized red oak logs cut near Wausau at the right time of the year and I did the inoculation with my grand kids. I dry some of my excess and give the rest to food pantry's in the area and to people who love Shiitake's . This year my grand kids and I
made some straw and wood chips beds for some Wine Cap and I am awaiting the results! Keep up the good work!

[@knowyuhgrow420]

Thanks for sharing

[@Moodydesigns_Metaverse]

I love you all.. good ladies.. good labour, keep going

[@saikiran321]

Awesome! I wish I could work on mushroom cultivation in a forest ❤️

[@jackienegretebenton2404]

Don’t live nearby but I would love some videos on the talks and discussions of the day.

[@alexcorbel6267]

My left ear thanks you

[@alexclifford8573]

😂

[@petset77]

I have two mixed aspen/cottonwood/straw beds that have excellent mycelium growth under pinon pine. I also have some aspen logs plug inoculated with oyster that are pretty dormant. I was wondering about burying those with shavings filled with spawn blocks, and the short segment on this video suggests it might be something to experiment with. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@starpunzel]

I hope to come to an event like this! Will you have another one soon?

[@FieldandForestProducts]

We'll likely be doing something similar next year, but probably not on quite as large a scale.

[@Beinhartwie1chopper]

🥰

[@jonwells2091]

WHAT KIND OF MUSHROOM COULD YOU GROW IF YOU HAD ACCESS TO A LARGE AMOUNT OF OAK SAWDUST?

[@FieldandForestProducts]

You could use it as a small component of a wine cap bed, but it would be better to use it for the buried block method. Anything else you would use oak sawdust for you will need to sterilize the sawdust.

[@brianberg3624]

Hi I have a few winecap beds in my backyard your videos have really helped me thank you. The harvests have been amazing but now that they have been going for awhile
I am having an abundance of the little fly that makes the little maggots. Is there a way to reduce this impact? Will my ecosystem balance out if I am patient? I don't really like the idea of the insecticide route. Any suggestions?

[@docjody8624]

How long after planting did you see your first Wine Caps emerging?

[@jlplzlchvz173]

My Oak tree fell 2 months ago do to a storm, I was just now able to get a chainsaw to cut logs. Will my oak logs still be able to grow shiitake mushrooms even though the tree laid on the ground for almost 2 months before cutting logs out of it?

[@indibro1909]

Yes, you just have to soak the logs in water for 3-4 weeks to becoming moist before Inoculation, happy growing😊

[@hondo1829]

Can I use pine needles and leaves as bedding for shrooms, My property has lots!

[@FieldandForestProducts]

You can use them as a way to cover the mushrooms to prevent the logs from drying out, but typically fungi need some sort of a more wood-based substrate to grow off of.

[@tanyafosdick4139]

Do you need to use dormant logs for the totem Pole method?

[@FieldandForestProducts]

Yes - for growing mushrooms on logs, no matter the method, you will need to use freshly cut logs from dormant trees.

[@ileanewirth5871]

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