I have a mushroom farm set in Mexico in my picture Book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. The location was deliberate. The illustrator, Robert Sae-Heng grew up in Mexico and his family had a mushroom farm! What an incredible coincidence!

Have you ever wondered how to grow mushrooms? Most commercial mushrooms are grown indoors in a sterile environment, but shiitake mushrooms are grown outside on logs. I took a learn to learn how with Amanda Dye at Powisset Farm in Dover, Massachusetts.

She made it easy. Watch here:

My log had a little mishap rolling down from the original location that I placed it in. My husband fixed it, and now it’s in a shady spot in our backyard.

I will keep you posted if we get mushrooms in the spring. I am supposed to keep the log damp so here’s hoping for spring rains in the Boston area! How about you? Have you ever tried to grow mushrooms?

p.s. Related posts:

When It Rains It Spores — Fun Fungi Books

9 Children’s Books about Farms and Farm Workers

Picture Books Celebrating Farmers’ Markets

Edible Plants & Foraging In My Neighborhood

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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World

• Junior Library Guild Gold selection
• Selected as one of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023 by dPICTUS and featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
• Starred review from School Library Journal
• Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
• Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids

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