Love shiitake? This set features everything you need to grow and harvest shiitake on logs. (Bonus: Spawn can be refrigerated for up to 6 months, for log inoculation in the spring!)

Each set includes: 

• Shiitake Sawdust Spawn (5 lb)
• Farming the Woods book
• Trio of Log Inoculation Tools
• Log Sealing Wax (1 lb)

About the spawn:

Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) is a flavorful mushroom that produces brown, medium-to-large, umbrella-shaped caps that fruit from late summer through the fall growing season. They are a delicious edible fungus from East Asia and their flavor is often described as rich, savory, buttery, and umami. Once inoculated, logs can fruit in as little as 6 months from inoculation, but generally take 9-12 months.

About the book:

Farming the Woods is an in-depth guide for those who have access to an established woodland space and are looking for productive, innovative ways to create a natural forest ecosystems that produces a wide range of food, medicinals, and other non-timber products. This is a wonderful book if you're planning on starting a small to large mushroom log project in temperate environments.

About the tools:

Our trio of tools is perfect for any log project that uses sawdust spawn. The trio comes with a standard angle grinder adapter, a 12mm drill bit, and a thumb-press log inoculation tool with ribbed anti-slip handle. (Watch the video below for details on how to use each product!) 

About the wax:

This clear food-grade paraffin log-sealing wax is ideal for sealing holes in inoculated logs. One pound of wax is enough to seal about 10 logs with some variability, depending on the size of the logs and whether you choose to seal the ends. (Sealing the holes is critical to success because it protects the spawn from drying out and from contamination.)