01/21/2017 TimberGardener

A cluster of wine cap beauties near the kiwis. If you read the site you know we have mushrooms ‘planted’ in logs, straw bales, and garden trenches.  There are maitakes by the big rock, chicken of the woods in a Douglas Fir stump, and four oysters,…

11/11/2015 TimberGardener

If you’ve talked to me in the past 4 years you probably know I’m obsessed with mushrooms. It started when I moved to McCall, ID. From spring to fall, the forest is filled with morels, boletes, and coral mushrooms, and hericiums and oysters hang from the trees. I love the…

04/15/2015 TimberGardener

(Mushroom logging actually happened back in April of 2015, so I’m going to cheat and back-date this post.)   Since this was an April 2015, it might be one of the first ‘homesteading’ activities to happen at our new home!  We ordered several different mushroom plugs from Fungi Perfecti and…