Mushrooms – Grown and Foraged

We enjoy growing and foraging for mushrooms because mostly we enjoy eating them! Mushrooms are very inexpensive to grow and provide lots of health benefits such as anti-cancer, anti-cholesterol, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory just to name a few. I’ve put our recipe for Amazing Mushroom Sauce in my Recipes pages.

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Amanita Caesar – lovely to look at, and some say it is edible, but I steer clear of all the Amanitas

Beautiful amanita under pines – so pretty, but don’t eat these either!

Delicious bluet growing just out from our driveway

Chanterelles from our property

Chanterelle Closeup

On Christmas day, 2011, our indoor shiitake log got its first flush, view from left side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 1, right side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 2, left side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 2, right side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 3, left side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 3, right side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 4, left side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 4, right side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 5, left side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 5, right side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 6, left side

Christmas Shiitake, Day 6, right side – and on the 7th day we ate it and it was good!

First blush (called cracked head) of Snowcap Shiitake

Baby golden mushrooms on poplar log in azalea bed (this is one super fruiter!)

Mature golden mushrooms, same log, ready for kitchen & market!

Miss Happiness Shiitake spore

Golden oysters on poplar log in back shade garden

Cherry red radishes, Herb’s mushroom knife and golden oyster mushrooms

Baby shiitake on white oak in front hosta bed

First Golden oysters, experiment – spawn in pine needles in cardboard box

Front perenniel bed mushrooms~

Fresh golden oyster mushroom babies – chopped them up in my Creamy cheesy Eggs this morning for breakfast – Life is good!

Golden Oysters – just like seafood!

Golden Oyster in the azalea bed

Closeup of Golden Oysters

More Oysters

Beautiful Oyster Mushroom

Italian Oysters in the hosta bed, Day 1

Italian Oysters, Day 3

Stay away – NOT chanterelles – toxic Jack oLantern!

more oysters

Mushroom Central – Shiitake World!

Oysters growing on poplar logs in the azalea bed

Oysters in the back shade garden

Beautiful tender & tasty!

Grey Dove Oysters

and more oysters

More oysters

more oysters in the azaleas

Herb with first Grey Dove harvest

Beautiful mushroom found along my wooded trail on the west side of the proerty

Closeup of Pink Oyster

First blush of Pink Oyster

Foraged ganoderm mushroom, also known as reishi, well respected medicinal mushroom. Doesn’t Herb’s shirt go with it beautifully?

Chicken Mushroom – good eating – stick to the outer tender parts!

Tiny mushroom land on a moss shelf