How do your mushrooms grow: New Brunswick forester dabbles in non-timber forest products

摘要

In his day job, Jamie Floyd is a forester handling management planning, harvest and silviculture, and other land management services for woodlot owners associated with the Southern New Brunswick Wood Co-operative Ltd (SNB). But his spare time is alsooccupied with forestry-related projects, including production of Shitake mushrooms. Growing Shitake and other species of mushrooms on logs in forest conditions is an age-old tradition in Asia. Mushroom cultivation in semi-wild conditions is a relativelynew phenomenon in eastern North America.