The mushroom room at Village Crest Farm is brimming with oyster mushrooms, both white and pearl, plus lion’s mane mushrooms and golden mushrooms. They’re thriving in a space that’s kept at about 60 ...

As an avid gardener and (very) amateur cook, learning how to grow edible mushrooms at home seemed like a no-brainer. Little did I know how little I knew. I ordered fungi guru Paul Stamets’ definitive ...

PORT ORCHARD — Bob Gilby, who operates Rokalu Farms on Glenwood Road Southwest with his wife, Donna Branch-Gilby, has spent the past several months studying up on all things having to do with ...

When Steve Shapson attended a mushroom growing seminar about 15 years ago, he learned that with a high-speed drill, some pasteurized sawdust inoculated with mushroom spawn, and a few logs he could ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small ...

Holy shiitake: Shiitakes fruiting on the log at Ivy Creek Family Farm in Barndardsville. Shiitake season runs April through October, though most of the work to grow shiitakes is happening now by our ...

Have you ever wondered how mushrooms grow? In the wild, mushrooms reproduce by releasing spores, the fungi equivalent of plant seeds. The mixing of spores leads to the growth of mycelium, a root-like ...

MONTVALE, Va. (WDBJ) - At Wingstem Farm in Montvale, they’re growing various kinds of mushrooms. “We moved here in 2012 with the idea that we wanted to grow something sustainably,” said Lexi Rojahn of ...

PESHTIGO - Field & Forest Products started by Joe Krawczyk and Mary Ellen Kozak in 1983 with shiitake mushrooms grown on logs. It started in Peshtigo for one good reason, Kozak's family farm provided ...