Growing Shiitake Mushrooms in an Agroforestry Practice (2008)

Cultivating shiitake mushrooms represents an opportunity to utilize healthy low-grade and small-diameter trees thinned from woodlots as well as healthy branch-wood cut from the tops of harvested saw-timber trees. When the mushrooms are collected and marketed, the result is a relatively short-term payback for long-term management of wooded areas.By Johann Bruhn, Ph.D. (Research Associate Professor, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri--Columbia) and Michelle Hall (Senior Information Specialist, Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri--Columbia)2nd edition; updated 2008Includes bibliographical reference