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Fun-to-grow shiitake mushroom log kits are an original gift idea for the holidays,. These logs yield high-protein, low-fat gourmet shiitake mushroom every two months for up to four years. The world's second-most consumed mushrooms, shiitake are prized for their health benefits as well as their flavor and nutrition.
Lost Creek Mushroom Farm Shiitake Log Kit with its own Soaking Tray
The mushrooms grow indoors like house plants or outdoors in shade. Every two months, for a period up to four years, the log will produce a crop of one of the world's best-loved gourmet mushrooms which are high in protein, low in fat, are credited with stimulating and boosting the immune system, and contributing to healthy hearts, healthy blood, and younger-looking skin.
"Shiitake logs are clean, renewable, and all natural," said Dr. Sandra Williams of Lost Creek Mushroom Farm. "After cutting timber, the small-diameter wood is often left on the ground as waste or chipped for low-grade building materials. Used for shiitake, that wood produces a whole, healthy food."
"We 'shock' a log to make it 'fruit,'" Williams explained. "Shocking the log means soaking it in ice water. Little mushroom buds push through the bark and in 6-10 days, fresh shiitake are ready to harvest, eat and enjoy. Even for us, after years of raising shiitake, it's fun to see them pop out, dark brown and ringed with little white stars. Children love to see something that looks like an ordinary chunk of tree 'bloom' with shiitake."
• Online (also on Amazon.com)
• By phone (1-800-792-0053).
• Mail order
Lost Creek Mushroom Farm,
PO Box 520, Perkins, OK 74059.
Lost Creek Mushroom Farm kits come in a range of sizes and prices and are guaranteed to grow mushrooms. In addition, a portion of all sales is donated to Lost Creek's humanitarian project, Mushrooms in Ghana, helping introduce log-grown shiitake to mushroom farmers in West Africa. "Most of the small-scale mushroom farmers in Ghana are women. They are proving every day that mushroom production can be an effective tool for alleviating poverty," Williams said.
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