Grow Your Own Mushrooms
Growing mushrooms is a fantastic way to grow healthy and medicinal produce at your home. We frequently get questions about which trees and shrubs can produce fruit in shaded areas of yards. Unfortunately, there is not much that can productively produce in shade. Growing mushrooms on logs takes advantage of these shady areas.
DIY Kits

- Kits contain:
- 5 logs (approx. 3-8" diameter x 3-4' long) suited to appropriate mushroom strain
- Spawn for 5 logs
- Wax
- Wax applicator
- Detailed instructions
$ 110.00

Kits contain:
- Pre-Inoculated log (approx. 3-8" diameter x 3-4' long) with all parts of the procedure done except for fruiting
- Detailed instructions
$ 40.00
Our Process
Our logs are sustainably harvested from a large conservation area that
has been set up and stewarded by our family for many generations. We are
extremely selective in our harvesting of logs, for example, by cutting
trees that are growing too densely. When harvesting our logs we use a
battery-powered chainsaw with biodegradable bar oil to prevent
contamination of log and the environment. Our mushroom spawn is sourced
locally in Winnipeg through Tom Nagy at River City Mushrooms.
Proceeds support maintaining this conservation area for the benefit of
local wildlife and the larger environment. Our aims with growing
mushrooms and providing logs are twofold. First, we aim to ensure that
we can continue to maintain, steward and even enhance the conservation
area. Second, we want to provide customers with the ability to produce
high quality and nutritious food in a very low impact way.



We use and provide biodegradable wax to seal the mycelium and prevent
them from drying out. Paraffin wax can also be used, but it is much more
energy intensive to produce and we prefer allowing our logs to
decompose and enhance the soil when they have finished their fruiting
lifespan rather than leave pieces of non-biodegradable wax leftover.
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Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus spp.) are an excellent choice for those new to mushroom cultivation or are otherwise interested in working with an aggressive, high yielding and adaptable mushroom species. Expect several bountiful flushes of delicious mushrooms from tried and true productive strains.
White Oyster

Produces loose clusters of cream, light grey or pure white, delicate mushrooms. Harvest when caps begin to turn upwards.
Blue Oyster

Produces large, deep blue or navy colored caps that are dense and meaty. Harvest when cap margins begin to turn upwards.
Black Pearl Oyster

Produces clusters of large, firm mushrooms with thick stems and dark grey or brown, mottled caps. Harvest when cap margins begin to turn upwards.
Shiitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes) are one of the most popular gourmet mushroom types, and for good reason. They have a delightfully rich and savoury flavour that holds up well to braising or simmering in soups. They are also delicious stir fried or marinated and roasted. Mushrooms develop individually or in small groups all around the log in which it is growing. Although not as high yielding as some of the other commonly cultivated species, the mushrooms that are produced are very high quality, have an exceptional fresh flavour, and have a good, refrigerated shelf life. They also dehydrate wonderfully.

Lions Mane mushrooms (Hericium erinaceus) are an easy going, beginner friendly and highly adaptable mushroom species. It matures quickly and reliably produces multiple, abundant crops of rounded, white or cream colored mushrooms that develop cascading spines as it matures. Harvest when the spines noticeably elongate, those on the top of the mushroom begin to curl, and / or if the top of the mushroom takes on a slightly yellow-ish hue.
