We toured the eastern US visiting shiitake farms and learned that there is no Right Way to grow shiitakes. Each grower had a different system and all of them got mushrooms: On 2,000 logs or 100,000 logs, using compressor-cooled soaking tanks and fork lifts or lawn sprinklers and overhead sprayers, even using garden hoses with punched-in holes. We saw home-made greenhouses, converted hog farms and chicken houses, elaborate indoor operations and thousands of logs cultivated bare naked outdoors, shaded by trees.