Here's a pic of one of the stacks of logs for the shiitake mushrooms. There are 310 logs that are 4ft long here. I have 500 altogether.

I'll start inoculating them in about a week. All in all, they should produce about 1750 lbs of shiitake mushrooms.

These logs were cut from trees thinned out of 80 acres of private forest land. The thinning was done to improve the variety of trees in that stand, and to increase the timber value of more mature trees, and to provide a higher quality habitat for wildlife. You really couldn't see any difference in that stand of forest after they were harvested though, it is so overgrown with immature trees all competing for the same resources that another 1000 trees the same size would need to be cleared before it would be considered a "well managed forest".

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