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Holiday Gifts for Fungiphiles: Mushroom Lovers Love Mushroom Logs
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Lost Creek Mushroom Farm

Dec 07, 2016, 10:00 ET

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Lost Creek Mushroom Farm 10" Shiitake Mama Log. DIY Gift kits from $20-$90, s&h included, for Fungiphiles (Mushroom lovers, vegetarians, cooks, and gardeners)
Lost Creek Mushroom Farm 10" Shiitake Mama Log. DIY Gift kits from $20-$90, s&h included, for Fungiphiles (Mushroom lovers, vegetarians, cooks, and gardeners)

Perkins, OK (PRWEB) December 07, 2016 -- “Fungiphiles (FUN-juh-files) are mushroom lovers,” according to Dr. Sandra Williams, aka Shiitake Mama from Lost Creek Mushroom Farm. “Fungiphiles order pizza with mushrooms, they cook with ‘shrooms, and they may even hunt mushrooms. For a mushroom lover, a shiitake log kit is a unique, fun holiday gift that grows for years. A log shipped now can put a small first harvest of tasty, meaty shiitakes on the New Year's holiday table. By next December, your favorite fungiphile can have a mess of mushrooms.”

DIY mushroom growing kits bring out the creative, care-taking genes in people, especially those who appreciate the magic of the natural world.

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Lost Creek Mushroom Farm gift-log kits for mushroom lovers, cooks, vegetarians, gardeners, and nature lovers sell from $20-$90, including shipping. “DIY growing kits bring out the creative, care-taking genes in people, especially those who appreciate the magic of the natural world,” she said.

The logs are hardwoods such as oak grown in the heart of the US. In the winter the mushroom seed, called spawn, is inserted by hand into oak and other hardwood logs (see how they do it here). It takes about 9 months at the farm for the logs to “fruit” for the first time. As they mature, more shiitakes pop out with each fruiting.

“Lost Creek Mushroom Farm logs come ready to fruit (we guarantee it) and can grow shiitakes within 6-10 days of soaking in non-chlorinated ice water. They'll grow mushrooms about every two months for years with bigger crops each time. After two years, harvests taper off,” Shiitake Mama explained. All kits include instructions and a recipe booklet. Kits over 9 inches are guaranteed to grow shiitakes. Prices include shipping.

Kits start at $20 for the 6-inch Baby ‘Shroomie, “a cute, coffee-table conversation piece, small-apartment size, easy to fruit and take care of.” Photos of the larger kits are in this short video.

The 10-inch Shiitake Mama sells for $33 and the 12-inch Big Boy for $38. Lost Creek Mushroom Farm’s 14-inch Shiitake Tree in a Tray comes with its own terra-cotta colored soaking tray and a humidity bag for $49.95. The Ma & Pa Kit has two 10-inch logs. “When you have two logs, you can alternate the fruiting log and have fresh shiitakes every month, or you can fruit them together for a more-than-double harvest because, like us, they do better together,” Shiitake Mama said.

The Best Buy Kit has two Tree in a Tray Kits shipped to the same address for $89.95, a $10 savings. She added “Give one for a gift and keep one for yourself. Keep them both or give them both together and you and your fungiphiles can feast for years.”

For cooks and gourmets Shiitake Mama recommends The Shiitake Sampler, a homey little cookbook by Janet Bratkovitch with 51 kitchen-tested recipes, $10.95; or $8.95 when shipped with a log.

Lost Creek Mushroom Farm donates a portion of sales to Mushrooms for Well Being Foundation’s Mushrooms in Ghana Project. “We are working with small-scale mushroom farmers in Ghana, West Africa, many of them women. Our work is helping expand the mushroom industry, increase production and profits, and improve food security.”    

Order online at ShiitakeMushroomLog.com, by phone at 800-792-0053, or on Amazon.com.

Dr. Sandra WIlliams, Lost Creek Mushroom Farm, http://www.shiitakemushroomlog.com, +1 (800) 792-0053, [email protected]

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Best Buy Shiitake Log Kits, two for $89.95 shipped to the same address. Give one as a gift and keep one for yourself.
Best Buy Shiitake Log Kits, two for $89.95 shipped to the same address. Give one as a gift and keep one for yourself.
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