Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation with Dakota Rambin

Intro to Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation with Dakota Rambin

Class Description

You don't need a sterile lab or a big budget to grow mushrooms at home. You need a storage tote, some patience, and a few hours with someone who knows what they're doing.

This hands-on workshop with cultivation educator Dakota Rambin covers the full home-growing workflow, from sterile technique and grain spawn basics all the way to liquid culture, cloning, and scaling up. Whether you're apartment-sized on space or just new to all of this, Dakota's approach is designed to meet you where you are.

What's Covered

• Sterile technique and safety
• Grain spawn: the basics of "mushroom seed"
• Using common household products and tools to inoculate and grow
• How to make any space in your home clean enough for growing
• Cloning a mushroom in the field
• Scaling up: making more than one batch at a time
• Budget tools and resources

Details
Date: September 11
Time: 5:30 to 9:00 pm
Location: Casa Del Prado, Room 101 | Balboa Park, San Diego
Cost: $40 Members, $50 Non-Members
Space is limited to 50 participants.

This workshop is hosted by the San Diego Mycological Society (SDMYCO), a San Diego-based nonprofit focused on mycology education. Learn more at sdmyco.org or follow us @sdmyco.

Your Instructor
Dakota Rambin is a cultivation educator who specializes in making mushroom growing accessible to beginners. His workshops focus on practical, low-tech methods that work in real home environments, no specialized lab space required. He has taught hands-on cultivation workshops with the San Diego Mycological Society and brings a straightforward, demystifying approach to every class.