How familiar is the average person with those? Do you think they would sell at a farmers market? I’m growing Shiitake, Wine Cap, and Oyster, but was thinking about expanding to Maitake or Lions Mane.
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They’re less common, but you could get customers hooked with a little education. I have seen them at farmers markets and specialty stores. It’s priced in East Asian cuisine, particularly Japanese. So if you have any customers with that heritage, you’ll probably make them happy!
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Some mushrooms from my woods recently after the rain.
Never seen blewit this big, cap about 6” and stem about 1”. They have passed the prime time so I spreaded them among my other leaf piles.
The others are brick cap and saffron milk cap. The saffron milk cap is quite rare in mid Atlantic area.
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Milk caps are delicious. Can make your urine red but its harmless.
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A big puffball I noticed while walking the dog. Size 12 foot for reference.
I didn’t harvest it since I already have more chicken of the woods and hen (maitake) in the fridge than I can deal with.
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Actually never tried it…the American saffron milk caps are said to be different from European ones. I picked up a box and still left many in the field. Will try small and see.
Talking about blewit, I am still amazed how big it can be. Took more pictures during lunch break.
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Looks like Lepista nuda indeed, although lightly coloured. Our european blewits are more purple underneath - another delicious mushroom that I collect since my childhood. Now is their time…see if I can find any on Sunday. If successful I will post some pictures.
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got them all around my chicken run right now. i probably could harvest them but being down hill from chicken crap kinda makes them off limits. they grow huge there though.
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Really, don’t they produce the button mushrooms at the grocers
on horse manure?
yeah but its composted 1st. these guys are inches from fresh chicken crap. im hoping they spread to the chips i put down a few feet away. then id pick them.
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My Shitakes in Chicago area took about 3-4 years to get started
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Morels have started in southern Michigan. My oyster logs have been producing after every rain for the past 3 or 4 weeks.
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I found a couple of black morels on 5 Apr, then a couple of past-their-prime grays on 9 Apr… but then had a flush of Shiitakes from my logs, and since then, have had too much going on to get out and hunt more morels, plus still working our way through the Shiitakes.
Friend sent me a photo, yesterday, of a huge clump of blue/gray oysters that she found growing on a stump in her woods.
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found nearby in the woods, in going to pick through and try to get them to spawn in my mulch by the trees in the shade.
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I’d have sworn it was too cold… Maybe my location is just colder than yours.
Scott
They popped up but aren’t growing much, also not drying out. I think the cold has them on pause. I usually don’t find them until the lilacs bloom, which hasn’t happened yet.
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The cold will do that. I have my very own flush of inkcaps. Normally they would pop and start turning to goo by the next day but we had a temperature drop for a few days so they basically stopped mid growth and just stood there. Once it warmed up again they just kept on growing again.
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