Experimental Lion’s Mane Cultivation

I’ve been experimenting with cultivating lions mane in our forest garden using hardwood logs and hardwood pellets. Here’s a video I made describing the setup:  

It’s a pretty rudimentary setup but it seems to be working just fine. My hope is to scale up this system to start to propagate a lot more of this awesome species of edible mushroom.

Has anyone else used a similar setup, or found a different way to keep lions mane going?

Also, does anyone have any tips for what I should do to overwinter this setup? We get very cold winters here in the Adirondacks (zone 4a).

Set up an indoor grow room where you control the humidity, temp, and photo period. Switch from logs to to bags of pasteurized hardwood pellets mixed with oat bran.

Didn't realize you already had a good substrate that will probably work indoors in the bags, no need to change that part probably...

Jay, said, "Also, does anyone have any tips for what I should do to overwinter this setup? We get very cold winters here in the Adirondacks (zone 4a).

Now might be the right time to look into a rocket mass heater for an unheated garage or basement.

https://permies.com/t/44419/RMH-spawn-house

Also, look into using "Homegrown Mushroom Mycelium Insulation Panels":

https://permies.com/t/177485/Homegrown-Mushroom-Mycelium-Insulation-Panels

William Kellogg wrote:
Didn't realize you already had a good substrate that will probably work indoors in the bags, no need to change that part probably...

Thanks for the help, we’re setting up a small system indoors so hopefully that works.

Anne Miller wrote:

Jay, said, "Also, does anyone have any tips for what I should do to overwinter this setup? We get very cold winters here in the Adirondacks (zone 4a).

Now might be the right time to look into a rocket mass heater for an unheated garage or basement.

https://permies.com/t/44419/RMH-spawn-house

Also, look into using "Homegrown Mushroom Mycelium Insulation Panels":

https://permies.com/t/177485/Homegrown-Mushroom-Mycelium-Insulation-Panels

Oh cool thanks for this info!

Lion's Mane is known for neurogenesis or the creation of new neuron pathways in the brain. Tasty too!