Well, there are several shiitake "farms" here in the Ozarks, and they all sell them to markets and restaurants, and a lot of them are dehydrated too and sold for food and health supplements, and they do pretty good, but that's not what we're doing.

We are going to do something a little different. We're going to inoculate them and wholesale the logs to local garden centers and other retail outlets so people can buy them and take them home and put them in their veggie garden.

Ozarkers are pretty into wild shrooms, hunting for morels is a long time tradition here, so I think they'll be interested in growing some at home. Right now they sell for $4 for 3oz at the local markets.

This is just a test run. If they do well we'll make some more. If not, I'll have a lot of shrooms to sauté