Growing a years worth of mushrooms in just a corner of our backyard! We are growing these shiitake mushrooms on fresh red oak logs that we harvested from a property that was in need of forest management. We took out unhealthy trees or ones that were too close together to help promote the overall health of the forest. Winter to early spring is the best time to inoculate logs, before trees leaf out. I purchased my spawn from @fieldandforestproducts along with the tool I used to drill the holes for