Level 2 · Grower · Curriculum outline · external review pending
Shiitake Foundations
Separate learning paths for log cultivation and synthetic block cultivation.
3lessons
3full lessons
9self-check questions
ENlanguages
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Learning outcomes
After this course, you should be able to:
- Distinguish log and synthetic-block systems
Course map
Every lesson opens with objectives and a diagram, carries sourced numbers, ends with a farm task and three questions.
- 01Choose the Cultivation MethodShiitake is really two crops. On wood logs it takes years; on a sterile block, months. Mixing their numbers loses a season.
- 02Log CultivationLog grown shiitake is farming at the speed of wood. What you decide in week one is locked in for years.
- 03Synthetic Block CultivationA synthetic block is a small clean factory. One unsterile bag can spoil the batch beside it.