Edible Cape Cod

Do You Know the Mushroom Man?

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Harvesting oysters — mushrooms, that is — by carefully removing mature pale peachy oyster mushrooms from the bags of growing medium.

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Oyster mushroom bounty — Uli shows the oyster mushrooms’ gentle upward curl, indicating they’re mature.

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Harvest time. Adding a column of spawn-injected substrate daily, beginning at the far left side, ensures that in 8 or 9 days column 1 is mature. (FIFO – first in, first out.)

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Shiitakes on the bark hide in plain sight until you’re close.

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Winslow’s corner. Look closely to see the plugs sealing in the shiitake spawn.