Good Taste, Good Fun -- Shiitake Mushroom Log Kits for Father's Day
Shiitake mushrooms blossom out of hardwood logs, ready for a harvest every two months for years. The logs can live in the house like plants or in the yard in shade. Every kit sold contributes to helping small-scale mushroom farmers in Ghana, West Africa. A unique, long-giving gift, ideal for mushrooms lovers, gardeners, and gourmets.
Perkins, OK, June 07, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Gardeners, mushroom lovers, gourmet, fancy cooks, even backyard barbecuers, will get a kick out of a shiitake mushroom log kit from Lost Creek Mushroom Farm. A gift that keeps giving for years, the all-natural hardwood logs grow fresh, organic shiitakes every two months by soaking them in ice water.
Fun to grow and fully guaranteed, the logs are natural oak or a similar type of wood drilled with holes and injected with shiitake spawn (mushroom seed material). Mushroom farmers Sandra and Doug Williams of Lost Creek Mushroom Farm inoculate the logs and incubate them for months until they are ready to produce, or "fruit."
Where do you keep a shiitake log? In the basement, in the dark?
"No," said fungus farmer Doug Williams, "Shiitakes like room light and room temperature and they can live indoors with plants or outdoors in shade. You soak them in non-chlorinated water about every two weeks and every two months you ‘shock’ them with ice water to trigger the mushrooms."
"‘Once a log fruits, it has to keep fruiting whenever conditions are right," according to Doug. "The right conditions are plenty of water, temperatures of about 68-78 degrees F. (20-26 C.) and day and night cycles. In their natural seasons, spring and fall, they can grow some amazing mushrooms."
"The ice water tricks the logs into thinking it’s the spring or fall rainy season," adds Sandra, known as the Mushroom Lady. "Within a few days little white buds appear and in about a week the mushrooms are ready for harvesting."
The Williams’ are using a percentage of Lost Creek Mushroom Farm sales to support Mushrooms in Ghana Project (www.mushroomsinghana.org), introducing shiitake log production to small-scale oyster-mushroom farmers, most of them women, in West Africa. The couple and their friends are equipping a spawn laboratory to enable more farmers to grow more mushrooms. They have been volunteering and contributing to the Ghanaian mushroom industry since 2007.
The log kits include instructions and recipes and Lost Creek Mushroom Farm’s guarantee to fruit. Prices include shipping. A single 10-inch log sells for $29.95. The Ma & Pa Kit, at $49.95, comes with two 9-10-inch logs and will produce mushrooms every month by alternating the fruiting log. A 6-inch Shroomie sells for $18.00. Janet Bratkovich’s Shiitake Sampler Cookbook, with 51 recipes, makes an especially yummy gift. Included with a log kit, the cookbook is $7.95; sold separately it’s $9.95.
Order online at www.shiitakemushroomlog.com, by phone at 800-792-0053, or by mail at Lost Creek Mushroom Farm, PO Box 520, Perkins, OK 74059. The log kits are available on Amazon.com at slightly higher prices.
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Fun to grow and fully guaranteed, the logs are natural oak or a similar type of wood drilled with holes and injected with shiitake spawn (mushroom seed material). Mushroom farmers Sandra and Doug Williams of Lost Creek Mushroom Farm inoculate the logs and incubate them for months until they are ready to produce, or "fruit."
Where do you keep a shiitake log? In the basement, in the dark?
"No," said fungus farmer Doug Williams, "Shiitakes like room light and room temperature and they can live indoors with plants or outdoors in shade. You soak them in non-chlorinated water about every two weeks and every two months you ‘shock’ them with ice water to trigger the mushrooms."
"‘Once a log fruits, it has to keep fruiting whenever conditions are right," according to Doug. "The right conditions are plenty of water, temperatures of about 68-78 degrees F. (20-26 C.) and day and night cycles. In their natural seasons, spring and fall, they can grow some amazing mushrooms."
"The ice water tricks the logs into thinking it’s the spring or fall rainy season," adds Sandra, known as the Mushroom Lady. "Within a few days little white buds appear and in about a week the mushrooms are ready for harvesting."
The Williams’ are using a percentage of Lost Creek Mushroom Farm sales to support Mushrooms in Ghana Project (www.mushroomsinghana.org), introducing shiitake log production to small-scale oyster-mushroom farmers, most of them women, in West Africa. The couple and their friends are equipping a spawn laboratory to enable more farmers to grow more mushrooms. They have been volunteering and contributing to the Ghanaian mushroom industry since 2007.
The log kits include instructions and recipes and Lost Creek Mushroom Farm’s guarantee to fruit. Prices include shipping. A single 10-inch log sells for $29.95. The Ma & Pa Kit, at $49.95, comes with two 9-10-inch logs and will produce mushrooms every month by alternating the fruiting log. A 6-inch Shroomie sells for $18.00. Janet Bratkovich’s Shiitake Sampler Cookbook, with 51 recipes, makes an especially yummy gift. Included with a log kit, the cookbook is $7.95; sold separately it’s $9.95.
Order online at www.shiitakemushroomlog.com, by phone at 800-792-0053, or by mail at Lost Creek Mushroom Farm, PO Box 520, Perkins, OK 74059. The log kits are available on Amazon.com at slightly higher prices.
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Lost Creek Mushroom Farm, Inc.
Sandra Williams
405-612-6814
www.shiitakemushroomlog.com
1-800-792-0053
Sandra Williams
405-612-6814
www.shiitakemushroomlog.com
1-800-792-0053
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Shiitake Mushroom Farmers Sandra and Doug Williams
Doug and Sandra Williams of Lost Creek Mushroom Farm harvest shiitakes from a Ma & Pa log kit.
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