Dec 29, 2025
Growing Mushrooms
Here's for a weird hobby. I just saw a video by an American Youtuber that I plan to watch about growing shiitake mushrooms. From what I've seen, it probably needs a bit of space. There was a local market in Fukuoka Prefecture that had a "mushroom room" where they grew and sold mushrooms like maitake and eringi. I also saw a video of a couple in Paris that built a mushroom growing shower room! The local hardware store sells "seeded" logs and shiitake mushroom growing kits. I have seen the logs around people's homes on occasion. It seems like a very odd, but sustainable hobby. Has anyone tried it, or is anyone interested to try this? I wonder how involved or beginner friendly it is.
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on Dec 30
My dream (eventually) would be to have a house with a big enough yard to grow a bunch of fruits, veggies, herbs, and the like, so growing mushrooms sounds appealing to me! I haven't tried mushrooms yet, but when we lived in Tokyo before Niigata we had a small yard area. I managed to grow cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and some herbs. I like the sustainability element of the mushrooms growing on logs, you've inspired me to research it a bit more!
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on Jan 1
You know, I actually thought about growing mushrooms before, because my husband eats them daily and they seem like a fairly easy to grow vegetable, even for someone like me who historically doesn't have a good record when it comes to growing vegetables! Thanks to you, I am going to give this some thought again.
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on Jan 9
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on Jan 29
@BigfamJapan I wonder how many logs you'd need to be able to harvest mushrooms daily...hmm. It seems like it takes months for them to get started too. Let us know if you do try it out!
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