The Shroomshop: DIY Mushroom Cultivation Workshop with Darren Le Baron

Learn how to grow edible, nootropic and medicinal mushrooms at home from expert cultivator Darren Le Baron.

Darren has been educating and growing mushrooms for over thirteen years, welcoming thousands of budding mycologists to his famous Shroomshop! This event will sell out, so grab your ticket now!

Mushrooms have been growing wild since prehistoric times. Their therapeutic value has been prized in indigenous cultures for thousands of years. They play a critical role in medicinal practice and were noted in some of the first books on herbal medicine written thousands of years ago

In the past few decades, mushrooms have become more popular for their therapeutic qualities in the west as a result of an expanding body of scientific research supporting their numerous health benefits.

Come and learn the basics of mushroom cultivation, explore various techniques for growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms such as Oyster, Reishi, Lions Mane and many other magical varieties of mushrooms.

This will be a hands-on experience and will cover everything you need to know to get you started. What will you learn?

• What are Mushrooms?
• How do Mushrooms grow?
• How to cultivate Mushrooms at home!
• How to make your very own grain spawn!
• Making a mushroom fruiting tub!
• Mushroom Aftercare!
• Where to get everything?
• Each participant will leave with a mushroom grow kit and access to digital notes.

Darren in action (above) leading the workshop.

About your facilitator:

Darren Le Baron is an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research, and is based between the UK and the Caribbean.

Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes and mushroom educational programs, he is a keen cultivator and teacher. He has been growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for over thirteen years and has translated his home growing experiences into a social enterprise.

His achievements include launching the UK's first accredited Mycology and Mushroom Cultivation course for schools and young people in 2021, providing hands-on experience to empower school children and at-risk youth.

Darren is a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications.

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