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HOW TO – Grow shiitake mushrooms

By Becky Stern

Becky Stern

Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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Jenny @ CRAFT writes:

Heavy Petal has a great tutorial showing how to drill an alder log and fill it with mushroom spawn-laced wooden plugs to create a super-cool log that will eventually sprout shiitake mushrooms galore.

My favorite is the last step: “Then you make omelettes.”

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By Becky Stern

Becky Stern

Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

View more articles by Becky Stern