For some reason experimenting with mushroom cultivation was something we (especially Erkki) wanted to do in our permaculture project. The main idea was to develop a kind of low-tech mushroom cultivation system following the lines of traditional Japanese outdoor shiitake cultivation. On the other hand the idea of just buying the inoculation material wasn't satisfying so also growing the mycelium ourselves was a key idea. There are several sources of information which are listed in the end of this article. While reading bear in mind that this story is just starting - so far we have seen one...