Field Notes / The grower’s eye / Source notes
Archive photographs, frame selections and credited technical sources.

Harvesting Shiitake Mushrooms
Published 2021-09-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzNjDmP3Cgw
Selected archive views of canopy, scissors, block, stems and receiving tray. No transcript quotation, attributed intention or measured harvest result.

Inside Our Exotic Mushroom Grow Room | Lion’s Mane, Chestnut, Pioppino & More
Published 2020-10-06
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BaXvKDDRGY
Visible forms and surfaces in four selected frames. Film title is not used to assign species to individual plates.

Fruiting Maitake Mushroom Blocks | How We Grow Grifola frondosa Indoors
Published 2020-09-17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asQtPL8d_to
Separate bagged-block and held-formation views from a film titled as maitake. Not a documented developmental sequence or diagnosis.

Cornell Small Farms Program: Mycology 101
Accessed 2026-09-22
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/resources/mycology-101/
Source paraphrase: mushrooms as reproductive structures; mycelium grows through substrate and releases enzymes for nutrition; spores as reproductive units.

Heino Lepp, Australian National Botanic Gardens: Spore dispersal
Accessed 2026-09-22
https://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/dispersal.html
Source paraphrase: basidia on gills launch ripe spores sideways into gaps, drag stops their sideways movement within less than 1 mm, gravity takes them down, tiny air currents transport them after they clear the cap. Explanation only, not a measured event in archive frames.

Michael Kuo, MushroomExpert.Com: Grifola frondosa
Published October 2017
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/grifola_frondosa.html
Source paraphrase: mature rosette of many fan-shaped or triangular caps connected by a branching whitish stalk base, with pores underneath rather than gills. Basis for explanatory schematic, not identification or prediction of the held formation.

Cornell Small Farms Program: Post-Harvest Handling
Accessed 2026-09-22
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/resources/harvest-to-market-guide/post-harvesting-handling/
Source paraphrases: species-specific harvest cues, gentle appropriate detachment, washed and thoroughly dried food-safe harvest vessels, brushing rather than washing before storage, damp cloth for remaining dirt, refrigeration at 36–38°F, breathable packaging and buyer cold storage. Conflicting plastic-bin statements are not generalized; no shelf-life guarantee, official grades or generalized New York regulation.

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