Cherry Hill Shiitakes

04/15/2026

This morning’s mushroom walk resulted in a nice sized salad bowl of shiitake (~4lb) which included a number of ‘donko’ or ‘flower shiitakes’, a very dense and delicious variant that develops in early spring.
Not quite enough for commercial sales but enough coming on for the next week or so to keep the family in fresh mushrooms for the near future.

04/16/2025

Did a quick check on the status of the mushrooms this morning. There are currently about 70 mushrooms that have popped in the last two days. Time to break out some marinaded bacon wrapped moose medallions, spiral cut ham and some cider from Crunicans Orchards for an Easter family dinner on Sunday.

01/26/2024

Spent the day yesterday with a friend cutting 300+ mushroom logs. Will be putting a significant spawn order in to Field and Forest Products Inc to be ready for a week of log inoculation come spring. I suspect there may be barbecue and beverage activities to go along with the inoculation work parties...
5lb of spawn will inoculate about 20-25 logs, and if we put another good day in next week, we should have in the neighborhood of 500 logs in total between the two of us.

10/02/2023

We have had a nice flush of large sized, meaty shiitakes. We currently have a quantity of 1 lb bags of mushrooms ready for sale.
$14/lb Contact Brian at 519 5216703 to arrange pickup.

08/07/2023

The second half of an unexpected flush only a month after the last one. I had tossed a few logs out on the grass that I was sure were spent after 4 years, and after a rain, I found they were sprouting mushrooms on the underside. I put them back under the trees, gave them another irrigation, and was pleasantly surprised to find that these logs produced numerous but smaller mushrooms.
We will be putting a quantity of these aside for the buffet table at our 25th wedding anniversary bbq next weekend, but will have a few to sell this week. Some of my newer logs produced some whoppers that will be amazing on the barbeque. (a fine ear of Ontario sweet corn inserted for scale)

08/03/2023

While on my morning walk through the logs with a coffee to feed the mosquitoes, I found a number of logs that have pinned (tiny mushrooms) so I will be expecting another harvest in a few days. Stay tuned to see how big a harvest we end up with, but I am hopefull of another 20-30 lb harvest.

07/30/2023

07/30/2023

8 lbs of fresh Shiitakes in the smoker. 2 more tray rotations and they will be ready. A couple of sliced smoked mushrooms takes a western omelette to a whole new level.