DIETZ FARM MUSHROOMS

Sequim Washington

Lowell and Audree Dietz make their living
doing Carpentry in Sequim.  Lowell's hobby, mushroom
cultivation, has become a source of income.
The photo on the left is a plastic column of barley straw
that has been shreded, cooked and inoculated with
grain spawn.   The mushroom is Pleurotus columbinus
also known as "Blue Cap Oyster Mushroom".
This mushroom is possibly the worlds best pizza mushroom.

This site contains several pages to help beginning mushroom cultivators:

Grow Mushrooms At Home! has mushroom recipes and information about an amateur mushroom cultivators' group.

The Pink Oyster Mushroom page has instructions for growing mushrooms on growing kits you purchased.

How to make mushroom growing straw blocks is a page for cultivators who want to make their own growing kits.

Try our mushrooms at a local restaurant:


Alder Wood Bistro in Sequim


Several local grocery stores sell our mushrooms:

THE RED ROOSTER GROCERY IN SEQUIM
Here in Sequim!
Mushrooms are often delivered to
Red Rooster Grocery within 20 minutes
of when they are picked.



The Food Co-op in Port Townsend


In addition to these locations, we vend mushrooms and mushroom growing kits at

The Sequim Open Aire Market

most Saturdays in the summer,

The Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society

wild mushroom show and

Olympic Peninsula Mycological Society

annual mushroom show.

Red Worms are for Sale on the Dietz Farm!



These red worms are used for kitchen composting.
They are Eisenia fetida (eye-SEN-ee-uh FE-ti-dah).
They are also called red worms, red wriglers or compost worms.
You may read or print the fact sheet: "kitchen composting with worm bins".
It is printer friendly and includes instructions to make an inexpensive worm bin like the one we sell with 500 worms for $65 + W.S.S.T. at the farmers markets or here at the mushroom farm.

Worms Only

We sell about 500 Red Worms for $25 and about 100 worms for $7.
We don't count the worms in each batch.   When we separate the worms for sale, we count and weigh a sample.   In the last one, 500 worms weighed 205 grams.   The rest of the worms are divided by weight.   As soon as they are divided into batches, each batch is provided enough bedding, grit and food to stay healthy.

If you would like to purchase red worms, mushroom growing kits or mushrooms directly from us

phone 360-477-4228

Lowell and Audree Dietz are interior trim contractors.

We do carpentry in Sequim.