Mushroom Cultivation Workshop

Always wanted to grow your own mushrooms but not sure where to start? We will guide you through the steps so you can go home and start growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms right away.

You will learn how to grow fantastic fungi at home whether you live in a city apartment or in a backwoods yurt. You will learn sustainable cultivation techniques that require very little equipment, produce an abundance of mushrooms and help the rest of your garden grow more fully.

And you will go home with a hoard of mushroom goodies to start fruitng out at home immediately.

• How fungus is essential to our ecosystems
• Feel confident in low-tech methods to grow gourmet and medicinal mushrooms including: Oysters, Lion’s Mane, Reishi, King Trumpets and Shiitakes
• How to make your own spawn from spores you collect
• How to grow on wood chips
• >> Take home inoculated wood chips
• How to grow on logs
• >> Take home an inoculated log
• How to grow on straw
• >> Take home an inoculated straw bag
• How to start growing mushrooms at you home no matter where you live

Chris Parker's 30 years of mushroom cultivation experience and engaging teaching style will answer all your questions, help you feel confident and inspired to put it all into action when you get home.

Our small group sizes ensure you get all your questions answered. We will show you our forest farm indoor and outdoor grow operations so you can start to imagine how to incorporate mushrooms into your home landscape.

We include a delicious lunch!

• Log inoculation (totems, small logs, living rafts, stumps)
• Woodchip cultivation - incorporating mushrooms into your landscape
• Straw inoculation

• Garden mycorrhizal (relationship between your garden and edible

• Cardboard spawn - from wild culture to cultivated
• Spore prints from wild mushrooms
• Low-tech, easily acessible, equipment
• Low cost home mushroom cultivation set-up

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