![]() To supply the burgeoning market for shiitakes, forest owners in the United States are cultivating them in their woodlots as an agroforestry crop. Their popularity as a valuable gourmet mushroom, as well as their reputation for having health benefits, is growing in this country as well. Shiitake are low in cholesterol, high in B vitamins, and have an exquisite taste. ![]() Shiitake mushrooms, Lentinula edodes, have been grown in Japan for over 2,000 years. ![]() But fortunately there’s another way to procure delectable gourmet mushrooms: grow them yourself. ![]() Days like these aren’t typical, however, and when you have a hankering to cook fresh mushrooms, you’ve probably found that most appetizing mushrooms – from morels to shiitakes – fetch a high price at farmer’s markets and specialty shops. For the wild mushroom hunter, making a fungi foray into a forest erupting with golden chanterelles, bursting with radiant oyster mushrooms, and scattered with black trumpets is like finding heaven itself. ![]()
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