Sourcing Wood To Weed Edibles Grow Mushrooms On Logs

• Posted by nupep shrooms May 4, 2022 Filed in Health #buy edibles canada  105 views
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  Sourcing the appropriate wood for mushroom cultivation can range from very easy (you own a woodlot) to difficult (you live in an apartment downtown). No matter where you are, suitable logs can be accessed for log-based cultivation, you Banana Edibles just need to be resourceful and sometimes accept that fact that you will not be able to acquire "prime" species but rather something that works "good enough". Below we've listed off our top 6 places for sourcing mushroom logs.

  1. Your Own Woodlot

  The responsibilities of owning a woodlot are many: managing it for productivity in a way that will provide future forest products, providing a haven for wildlife, and ensuring a means of protecting soil and groundwater resources. Management should include a forestry management plan drawn up by a professional forester so that trees are not cut willy- nilly with no provision for the composition and health of the future stand of trees. Good forestry practices will insure that the forest will be sustainable for decades while being managed in an ecologically conscience way while still providing the raw material for log based mushroom production.

   

  

   

  2. Federal, State, County Forests

  If you are located near public forested lands, chances are that there is a management plan written on how the forest will be managed and when cutting will happen as part of that management plan. Talk to the area forester and they should be able Weed Edibles to direct you towards recent or cuts or approaching timber sales. The tree tops are left behind and though tops can be difficult at times to work through, the payoff is great sapwood to heartwood ratios which make this wood very productive.

   

  3. Indigenous Communities Forests

  In the eastern U.S. many Native communities hold vast tracts of commercial woodlands that provide income to the community and are managed following good forestry practices for long term sustainability. We source our logs from these communities as they are nearby and have thousands of acres of prime wood suitable for mushroom cultivation.

   

  4. Private Commercial Forest Lands/ Logging Companies

  Throughout the country commercial forest lands are owned privately and harvested for saw logs and pulp. The company doing the logging would be the contact here to see if tops could be sawn for logs. Every region has its local Banana Edibles logger and can be a great source for obtaining raw material. Be aware though that larger logging operations often use feller bunchers to automate the harvest of small diameter wood, damaging the bark and rendering it useless for mushroom cultivation.