Yay, that makes me so happy! Your old hardwood won't work because shiitakes are saprophytic, which means they feed on the sugars of decomposing wood, especially in the sugar rich sap wood. After a few years, this sugar rush is over (major downer!) and they will not thrive. On fresh wood you will have a 3 year go of it, though. I recommend looking into local foresters, tree surgeons, or road crews who often have a bunch of branches they don't need. Also look into people logging. Often they just want trunks and leave tops and most land owners do not take advantage of the firewood potential after their woods have been logged. Those tops could supply a mushroom micro enterprise with enough to really get going with mucho mushrooms and mucho gusto!
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There are always crews around cutting big limbs off maples that are getting into the power lines. I am going to scope them out and ask pretty please if I can have some logs. If I don't resurface on Steemit for a while can you send out the rescue squad? k thx
BTW I already signed up to receive the catalog!! So pumped for 7-10 business days to come :)
Awesome, tap into those waste streams, woman!