Grow your own mushrooms
You can choose from one of our indoor Shiitake gardens for speedy, high-yielding crops, or invest a little more time in one of our outdoor mushroom spawn options to establish a perennial mushroom colony in your garden, landscaping or managed forest...or try them both!
Our Famous Shiitake Garden
Our kits for growing Shiitake indoors (shown at right) produce bountiful mushroom crops for 2-4 months and
sometimes up to 6 months! This is our favorite everyday mushroom and the most popular for good reason. They are high-yielding, easy-to-maintain kits that require little more than a room-temperature environment and a light misting every day. Each mushroom garden comes complete with care instructions and tips on how to prepare the harvest for delicious, healthy meals. Just follow the instructions and you are guaranteed to succeed!$24.00 per kit*
You can also grow mushrooms outdoors...
Growing mushrooms in the garden or landscaping helps generate soil, breakdown organic debris, strengthen plant & animal communities, and produces gourmet and medicinal mushrooms in otherwise un-utilized garden space! Use our quality Garden Spawn to generate your "second harvest" under the shade of shrubs, fruit trees, forests or shade cloth structures.
Wine Cap Garden Spawn
(Stropharia rugoso-annulata)
This is a very aggressive mushroom in the garden and landscaped environment. Easy to grow, delicious, and very productive: its the perfect gardener's companion! 8-12 weeks after inoculation into wood mulch/chip beds, beautiful portabella-sized burgundy mushrooms appear weekly from spring to early fall. Includes easy to follow instructions for maximum productivity. (AKA: Garden Giant, King Stropharia)
$24.00 per spawn bag (makes a 1-2 square yard bed)*
Wood Blewitt Garden Spawn
(Lepista nuda)
The Wood Blewitt is a common fall and spring wild mushroom found growing in forests and fields with lots of organic matter. It is easily adapted to the garden ecosystem by mixing our Garden Spawn with wood mulch and/or straw. The beautiful, violet-tinted mushrooms fruit primarily in the fall and sometimes in the spring. Includes easy to follow instructions.
$24.00 per spawn bag (makes a 1-2 square yard bed)*
Mushroom Plug Spawn
Plug spawn is used to grow gourmet and medicinal mushrooms on freshly cut (green) hardwood logs. Each bag contains 100-150 plugs, enough to inoculate 10 to 15 feet of 4-10-inch diameter cut logs! Once inoculated, the logs must be placed in a shady area exposed to natural rainfall and out of direct summer sun. Mushrooms begin to fruit in one or two years, and will continue to produce until the logs rot to the ground (anywhere from 5-10 years!). This is a great garden project and makes an excellent gift for the Do-It-Yourselfer. Includes easy to follow instructions--requires some tools.
$15.00 per bag*
Plug Spawn is available for:
-Shiitake
*plus shipping & handling