Brief Description:
Shiitake mushrooms have been hailed for both their culinary and medicinal benefits in Japan and other parts of Asia for hundreds of years, and their popularity worldwide increases every year. Found primarily on thicker-barked hardwoods like oak, they also do well on "scrub" hardwoods like alder. Mycelium is whitish in color, becoming brown with age. Either stumps or logs can be inoculated. When properly cared for, our hardy strain of Shiitake will begin to fruit in as little as 6 months, with the most substantial fruitings appearing 1 year from inoculation

Brief Description:
Pleurotus ostreatus is probably the most common edible mushroom found on hardwoods. Mycelium is white in color. Growing on alder, cottonwood, poplar, oak, birch, beech, aspen and many other hardwoods, our aggressive strains are renowned for their productivity. Stumps or logs can be inoculated.

Brief Description:
Polyporus sulphureus, "Chicken of the Woods", grows on a variety of hardwoods and softwoods throughout much of North America. Stumps, rather than cut logs, are the recommended site for plugging. Producing a multi-layered, shelf-like mushroom (sometimes called wood conks), Chicken of the Woods has an easily distinguished orange mycelium. Given the right conditions, mushrooms will form in 6-12 months, the stump will begin to decompose, and mushroom crops will form for several years thereafter.