I have been spreading these all over my property, and now after 5 years of doing this, have more mushrooms than I can deal with. It's literally as simple as this. I even pull back heavy mycelium mats and take that and spread it to new areas. It's so dirt easy. So ONE bag, and I have ACRES of these now. As far as these being best in walkways, I would say they are best in the beds. It's better for harvest in walkways, but their real benefit is soil creation. They are most valuable near your trees, because they will turn the woodchips back into nutrient and soil faster for trees. So put these literally everywhere. In my opinion, these are the best mushroom choice for a food forest, because they grow on woodchips and not logs, and also, they grow on ANY woodchip, cedar, pine, maple, oak, anything. No need to drill holes in oak logs and plug, no need to do maintenance. Just pull back chips, drop mycelium or sawdust spawn, and you are done. You are all really lucky that Silvertreeforest does this. It took me a year to find a source in Canada, and they went under during Covid.

Wow! This is the first How To on mushroom growing that is done in a way that I can do it. No logs, no infrastructure, no special tools. Thank you, Pete! I am definitely checking out your website. Thank you, Sean and Sasha for bringing wonderful businesses to your viewers attention.

One of the great things with winecap is that it will eat e. coli and so you can place them downslope of animal housing, or other places where manure may build up to reduce bacteria load in the runoff.

What was not mentioned in this video is that wood chips that have been around for a while will work less efficiently than wood chips that are 1-2 months fresh. As time goes on and the wood chips are exposed to environment, other fungal spores will germinate in them and compete for substrate.

Do it for the bees. An interesting bit of information I ran across recently is bees eat mycelium and it protects them against glyphosate poisoning. I suspect it would be beneficial for humans in this aspect. But if anything, grow it for the bees.

Wonderful demonstration. I have been growing Winecaps for several years over the course of a few moves. This mycelium looks beautifully active. I would encourage anyone considering growing Winecaps to look into purchasing this product.

Other mushrooms that grow effortlessly on wood chips are Pleurotus Ostreatus (Oyster Mushroom) and Cyclocybe Aegerita (Poplar Mushroom). I recommend all of them :)

You sourced coffee bags for the burlap (one sisal among them). I had to smile because I recently worke in a huge coffee warehouse in the Port of Hamburg and couldn't help but recognize those coffee bags (Brazil, Guatemala). I handled those exact printed bags full of 70Kg raw coffee beans. The numbers are called ICO numbers and thes code the country of origin among other things. Cheers from River Elbe, Germany...

Great video. For all that I have learned about growing food, I've had this mental barrier about mushrooms being some sort of high overhead/nuanced thing to get in to. This 10 minute video has changed my perspective, and for that I am thankful.

I help at an organic mushroom farm in Gasport, NY and this is great to see!

Yay! Thank you. Another thing to explore. Brilliant.

If you are on the edge about growing these mushrooms, do it. They are so easy to manage and keep going for years after first inoculation. They dry easily for storage if you get an overwhelming flush. Be prepared to deal with slugs, in advance. They will eat them as they appear.

Dam it Shawn I thought I was done ordering for the year.... time to hit up silver tree for some mushroom spawn.

Got my spawn from Pete and inoculating this week… these are great tips thanks!

Winecaps really are the best for wildcard woodchips. I’m also using it to wall of some inedible mushrooms that started on my oldest chips.

Mind. Blown. Thank you all!

Great video. I already have a dedicated mushroom bed in wood chip and I am about to inoculate the leaves in my shade garden and see how that goes. 🙂

Fun fact: every deep breath you take has at least 10 mushroom spores!!! They are such a magnificent organism. Also the trees use mushroom spores to speak to each other under ground!!!

As far as I understand it regarding "fruiting" (ie mushrooms), it's a biological response from the mycelium when it detects it may be running out of food at its current growing location (so it sporulates so it can be carried to a new location). If you put it into a huge pile of moist woodchips, it may not spawn for a while (as the mycelium grows through the huge food supply). If you put it into a location with modest food sources, it will fruit sooner, but won't give as many mushrooms.

Wow. No sterilized knives, scales, pressure canners. Now that's my way of doing things.

Good stuff! I like the layered burlap technique Pete demonstrated. Cheers!

I tried to grow some last year after this video I may give it another try

Will be buying some spawn from them when they are back in stock! We vacationed in Durango, Colorado, USA, in January and we always take a natural souvenir home from wherever we visit. Just outside the Air BNB there was a deciduous tree that had fallen and a part of the trunk had snapped off and was next to the property. We decided to take it home with us as our souvenir. It’s about 8” in diameter and 14” long. Have been holding on to it for a mushroom inoculation with plug spawn and will be doing it soon. We also have our garden full of wood chips and we have wanted to have mushrooms grow along the paths and edges. Wine Cap Mushrooms seem to be the ones we are destined to grow thanks to this video. Happy Earth Day, all!

Thank you Pete and Sean! This is amazing.

Thank you for getting mushrooms back on things to grow and the co bonus.

Will make sure the dogs are standing right there when I put plugs in logs. :)

Perfect timing! we ordered some winecap mushrooms and i plan to spead it in the garden as suggested.

www.silvertreeforest.com/products/wine-cap-mushroom-spawn - We'd be thrilled to know they were able to find homes for their over abundance of Wine Cap mushroom spawn. As you see in the video, setting walkways into delicious mushroom production is incredibly easy. Inoculating things like burlap and cardboard allow you to 'stretch' the spawn even further, making mycelial lenses so to speak that can then be applied to larger spaces, covered deeply in woodchips, etc., and expand their growth. These delicious, easy to grow, perennial mushrooms are an incredibly wonderful beginner mushroom for folks to explore growing in their landscape, we hope the great quality spawn Pete makes here helps folks get started with it!

Thank you for sharing this! I ordered some mushrooms from silvertree and planted it today in southern Virginia. First time growing mushrooms 🙏🏻🤞🏻

So loved this !!!

Excellent. I tried to use your shipping material that had grown some wine caps, for inoculating the area in and around my composting area without success. I think I'll give Silver Tree's product a go. .... 10 minutes later, done! As usual, thanks for sharing this resource.

Just inoculated my first wine cap bed today. Hoping they turn out good 🙏

I got wild mushrooms coming up on their own in the bed I made from bunny litter. I doubt they're edible (I'm not about to find out), but it's so exciting to see my mulch get broken down and the dirt get healthier looking (read: brown, and for me, less clay compaction).

Thanks for solving a minor dilemma. Reclaiming some lawn that's just sitting with woodchips. Now it can make food.

Wonderful! On my list of things to grow and add to my systems, thanks for the knowledge Pete! Bookmarked the site for future use,

Based on a failed attempt during a drought year a few years ago, I'd recommend putting at least one patch close to where you know you'll be watering frequently. That way you can make sure to keep the wine cap patch moist. Just got my spawn from Pete a few days ago, so hoping I have success this year.

Just ordered!

Mine should be here any day from them. I just made beds and did some guerilla incolulation with spawn from a different supplier. This will help diversify genetics

Ordered two, thanks!

OMG, I'm going to do this!

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If my memory is close to correct I believe that Shawn had that done around 10 Years ago also or about that time I think... Cheers

Exciting! As soon as I get wood chips, I'm going to grow wine caps!

That was very informative, thanks guys.

I like the idea of doing this in walkways. One question: does Pete (or anyone in the audience) have any data or anecdotal experience concerning long term degradation of raised bed materials? I could see black locust surviving quite a while, but other species would surely be colonized eventually no? Just curious.

It would be best to clear the wood chips off the bottom of the solar panels in the video. Unless you have bypass diodes, they will act like a kink in a hose and limit the production of the entire array down to the output of the partially covered cell.

It's been a goal of mine to get into mushrooms one day.

wonderful

This might be great for my asparagus bed!

Just tried to order some. It appears my only option was to pick up at their nursery, which is probably a 24 hour drive. Perhaps it's too difficult to ship to flyover country this time of year? It's unfortunate, but I do really appreciate the information shared in this video.

Can you do this with any commercial sawdust that is inoculated with mushroom spores?

Could you inoculate along the edge of an asparagus bed that has been mulched with wood chips ??

i am growing wine cup mushrooms this year. i am very excited about them coming up soon! i think by autumn?

but...I don't have a cute dog... For some years this is something we've wanted to do. I think this is the year! Thanks you Pete and Shawn. EDIT: Just made an order. Looking forward to spreading winecaps throughout our gardens and food forest.

Placed an order my wood chips are waiting

Would oak leaves be a good mulch for them once established?

I have heard you can not use woodchips from conifer family (or as little as possible) due to them being anti fungal, etc. Is that correct? We have mostly conifer woodchips available :(

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Could you use old stems from Jerusalem artichoke plants?

Sadly the Mushroom man's website landing page has ZERO navigation. Would like to know if he can ship FEDx so I can place an order

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How are the wine caps doing? Have they started producing? Ours have been fruiting, but it's been so difficult to find more woodchips. I've asked some many people and posted in so many groups.

I am preparing to make my first wine cap spawn bags. I have never made them and can't find much information on what to put in the bag. Is it just hardwood sawdust in the bag or is it sawdust and some nutrient ( like wheat bran)? Thank you!

How would they do in a high, dry climate like the Denver area?

How would they do in a hosta bed?

Will winecap spawn still be viable if I bought it last year and never got around to "planting" it? The bag was kept in the fridge the entire time. I'm going to try it anyway, but I think I'll go ahead and get more to be sure.

Could you use died leaves?

I was gifted some oyster mushroom blocks. Would this method work for oyster mushrooms?

Are these mushrooms for eating?

Are these magic mushrooms?

DO they have to be in the shade?