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Here are some maples that I plugged with shiitake a couple years ago. Should get several more seasons out of them
Woohoo! That’s quite the shiitake tower.
I have maples for my shiitakes and Poplar for the oysters.
It’s a waiting game for me now.
Looks like you have no shortage of maples from the background.
This part of the property was way overgrown with maples. I've thinned signicantly (not in this shot), building with some, firewood, and mushrooms. Some of the trees I cut down are growing back nicely. I should be able to have a regenerating supply for plugging mushrooms
Nothing more beautiful than a maple forest in the spring, summer and fall huh?
Have you ever tried growing lions mane? 
I have not. Love those. Very beautiful and tasty
I may add them to the mushroom garden. But I think I’ll wait to see how overwhelmed I am with the number of oyster and shiitakes I get.
Another question - you must get a huge flush a few times a year - what do you do with all the mushrooms? Do you have a dehydrator?
I get a steady supply when conditions are good. A few bigger flushes in there as well. I just eat as many of them as I can, it is easy for me to eat them at any meal. I do not worry about eating all of them, I like some to release spores into the local environment. I have sold some when I had a big flush
These are at my raw land, so no power for a dehydrator. I camp out there most of spring through fall while making improvements. I would like to build a solar dehydrator this year, many great ideas out there.
For your logs, you may get a few this fall, but expect to start getting them next year. A damp shaded spot that you see everyday is ideal for stacking logs. After a rain, a large flush can happen overnight. You have a day or two harvest window for the best mushrooms.
Camping spring through fall sounds pretty great.
A solar dehydrator. I’ll have to look that up. I made one once with just a large lightbulb and chicken wire shelves that worked pretty well. But needed power.
Dehydrating mushrooms gain vitamin d if they are in the sun. Pretty much anything else is better not in contact with the sun.
I'm thinking a smaller version of this:
Interesting 😍