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This site is basically a research site, in fact, we're comparing... different
stacking techniques as far as their effect on the production shiitake mushrooms.
Here you see a high A-Frame... basically consists of a couple poles with
a wire strung
between them..and we
stagger the logs, alternate them
as they lay across that wire
and when the mushrooms do form, they're very easy to pick in this open
configuration.
That differs
from the other stacking system that is just over here to my left...
that's a low A-Frame.
But you know, in contrast to the high A-Frame that I just described this is a
low A-Frame
very similar except
instead of propping the logs up on a wire
three feet off the ground
we just them propped up
on this piece of your irrigation piping...
so it's lower to the ground.
One advantage is, depending on the conditions, the humidity is higher,
which may or may not be a good thing
but you can see the logs are
in contact with the ground to a greater extent than they are
in the higher A-Frame,
so that can be a problem in terms of fungal contamination.
So we're
doing studies to compare the two, but it's a little early to
indicate which is the best.