I've been experimenting this summer with all "natural" Shiitake based on just the rain.
The result is when I do get Shiitake - the fruit (mushrooms) are much bigger and more beautiful but the overall number is much much much less. In fact if anything it proves I truly run a forest FARM and not just some willy-nilly wild grown operation.
Luckily I harvested this batch before the next rain - since it probably would have caused the drying Shiitake to start to oxidize from being wet.
The big rain we got was 2 and a third inches but that was about 10 days ago!! So these Shiitake dried naturally with lots of Vitamin D from the sun - yet there's no browning from oxidizing.
So I got lucky with this harvest. My other "natural" harvests were all a bit over-cured so to speak. One was too late to be edible. So this is my fifth harvest from the rain this year?
I have a farm membership lined up for next year and demand for this year but as I explained - I missed the Spring run off "flood lands" whereby I can just bucket up the water for my stock tanks. Otherwise my hand dug water hole right now only operates with a small jug. After the trees drink up the surface water then the land water is from the swamp methane muck. haha. No thanks!!
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