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Mature Chestnut Mushrooms waiting to be harvested

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June 05, 2026

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EcoEcho Shiitake Mushrooms - a Community Supported Agriculture farm

August 16, 2021

Thanks for your interest in EcoEcho Shiitake mushrooms. Forest cultivated Shiitake started in China around 1100 AD and is a highly honored traditional Chinese medicine. Japan has a multi-billion dollar a year forest shiitake business with an annual "reward" for best Shiitake. Natural forest Shiitake in the cold morning fruits with a "flower" or "donko" cracked intensified flavor - these are sold for twice the normal price. I can not guarantee how soon an order will be completed - Mother Nature is in charge. haha. Sometimes I get "donko" or flower Shiitake - so I just include those with the other shiitake at the same price - as part of the unpredictable nature of farming. Please email me at eco echo cultivation (all one word) at gmail dot com - to place orders. Shiitake grown naturally in the forest have been tested - showing over twice as much "Lentinan" the Beta-glucans (1-6) that is highly medicinal - killing tumor cells (see commen...

Shiitake Donko (flower) then EcoEcho Memorial Day 2025 Winecap Woodchips Harvest along with Dandelion Tincture!

May 27, 2025

First we got an early Spring very beautiful Shiitake big Oak tree harvest of "Donko" or "flower" Shiitake with more intense flavor from the cold air condensing the dew - hence the "flower" or Donko type that is the most expensive Shiitake to buy (when they are grown on logs). Log-grown Shiitake is by far the most medicinal since it gets more nutrients and competes more in Nature - so stronger medicine. OK the images are not loading - probably too much data for the blog format! I want to thank my CSA members for helping me - we got our first small Winecap small mushroom harvest from a neighbor's woodchip bed on a hill facing the sun. So people enjoyed - a handful of Winecap shrooms for the neighbors - to four other houses along with our house. We added ours to a pasta sauce. Winecap has a mild taste - more about texture or maybe timbre? hahaha. Then I harvested Dandelions to mix in the Vitamix Blender. Five gallons of organic Dandelions spray washed ou...