Welcome to the Wild Branch Mushrooms website.

Sharondale Farm Mushrooms and Useful Plants Mushrooms db1 Our Associate, Deric Bruce, with a small portion of his day's harvest. Varnish Conk, Ling chih, Ling qi, Ling-Zhi, Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) The information relative to the Medicinal Aspects of the Mushrooms below has almost exclusively come from Christopher Hobbs' excellent book 'Medicinal Mushrooms'. Below are the links to mushroom availability, prices, pictures and information. Dried Mushrooms: Dried mushrooms have a shelf life of up to a year if stored in airtight containers in a cool place, or placed in the freezer for longest shelf life. Salted Mushrooms: Mushrooms preserved in salt are essentially dehydrated.

How to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms OK, not the greatest picture - but man was it a tasty mushroom! Growing Shiitake on Oak LogsI've confessed before that I am a little obsessed with mushrooms - from growing oyster mushrooms in coffee grounds, to learning about edible wild mushrooms. (I'm still too nervous to eat them though!) Last Spring I contacted a local tree surgeon and scored a truck load of oak logs that had been cut down from a neighbor's yard - you need to let them sit for 3 weeks or so to allow the natural fungicides in the live tree to die back. Updated: Here's a step-by-step pictorial of the process courtesy of furtwangl on Flickr. Step One: Drill the Holes furtwangl/CC BY 2.0 Step Two: Insert Spawn Step Three: Wax Over Holes Step Four: There is no step four.... Once the logs are inoculated, you simply let them sit - preferably in a damp spot, raised off the ground so that they don't become colonized by other mushrooms - and you wait for them do their thing. My mushroom logs stacked behind the barn.