Numbered Publications: Forestry and Natural Resources
HENV-205: Residential Rain Garden: Design, Construction, Maintenance
Rick Durham, Brad Lee, Brad Lee, Ashley Osborne | May. 1, 2014 (New)
This publication covers the design, construction, and maintenance of residential ran gardens. Rain gardens are one of several stormwater management practices that homeowners can use to reduce their property's negative impact on water quality and flooding.
FOR-62: Managing Urban Pest Bird Problems
Tom Barnes | May. 7, 2013 (Minor Revision)
FOR-91: Growing Forest Botanicals and Medicinals
Deborah Hill | Mar. 15, 2013 (New)
If you are interested in producing some of Kentucky's native medicinal plants, the first step is to gather as much information about them as possible. This publication includes useful information including a list of helpful books, contacts, and organizations.
FOR-83: Shiitake Production: Incubation and Stacking
Deborah Hill | Mar. 12, 2013 (New)
Monitor your logs for shade, moisture, and pest and disease problems while they are incubating. If firewood- or teepee-stacked logs are losing too much moisture, you may need to rearrange the stacks. (The bottom logs will always retain more moisture). Lean-to stacked logs should be more even in their moisture content, but they too can be reversed if necessary.
FOR-86: Shiitake Production: Processing and Storage
Deborah Hill | Mar. 12, 2013 (New)
How you handle your mushrooms depends on whether you plan to market them fresh or dried, retail or wholesale.
FOR-87: Shiitake Production: Marketing
Deborah Hill | Mar. 12, 2013 (New)
The most common outlets for marketing your shiitake mushrooms are farmers markets, whole food and health food stores, restaurants and restaurant suppliers, supermarkets (especially locally owned rather than the national chains), produce buyers, and produce wholesalers.
FOR-90: Shiitake Production: Production Options
Deborah Hill | Mar. 12, 2013 (New)
This series of publications emphasizes growing shiitake mushrooms on natural hardwood logs. The denser hardwoods (oaks, hickories, chestnut) seem to produce better over the long run, and other hardwoods (maples, sweetgum) may begin to produce more quickly but will exhaust more quickly also.
FOR-79: Shiitake Production: Log Selection and Preparation
Deborah Hill | Mar. 12, 2013 (New)
Shiitake mushrooms grow well on many species of hardwood tree. The Shii tree, native to Japan where these mushrooms originate, is in the same family as our oak trees, so all kinds of oaks are useful for shiitake production.
FOR-84: Shiitake Production: Pest Control
Deborah Hill | Mar. 12, 2013 (New)
Shiitake mushrooms do not have many pests. Many problems with insects and competitive fungi can be avoided by timely cutting and inoculating of shiitake logs, and by good hygiene and maintenance practices.
AEC-99: The Kentucky Agricultural Economic Outlook for 2013
Alison Davis, Will Snell, Jeff Stringer, Billy Thomas, Tim Woods | Dec. 5, 2012 (New)