Mushroom Cultivation Demo: Making Spawn for Log Inoculation
Learn how to create liquid culture spawn and make sawdust spawn used to inoculate logs for outdoor mushroom cultivation
Learn the fundamentals of mushroom propagation in this demonstration lab session. We’ll review the essentials for:
- sterile lab technique
- DIY mycology equipment
- cloning mushrooms to create starter cultures
- creating liquid culture spawn
- sawdust spawn development for inoculating logs to grow mushrooms outside
In-person participants will leave with a cloned mushroom sample and a liquid culture syringe of their chosen species.
No prior experience is needed—just curiosity and a love for fungi!
This is the first part of an event series with Biotech Without Borders and Cornell Small Farms Community Mushroom Educators to perform log inoculations across NYC in urban gardens. We will share links to those events here once they become available and also share details during this class.
Proceeds for this event go to support Biotech Without Borders and the log inoculation events.
About the Instructor:
Louis Vassar Semanchik (@lou.vase) has been cultivating mushrooms for over a decade, starting Southern Tier Mushrooms in Binghamton, NY and eventually managing cultivation for Smallhold’s farms in Brooklyn, Austin, and Los Angeles. He now manages Smallhold’s national network of independent mushroom farms to supply local mushrooms to retailers in each region of the country. He’s grown mushrooms inside restaurants, grocery stores, basements, backyards, and huge warehouses. Louis is always looking for the next opportunity to teach others how they can grow mushrooms with whatever resources they have.
Learn how to create liquid culture spawn and make sawdust spawn used to inoculate logs for outdoor mushroom cultivation
Learn the fundamentals of mushroom propagation in this demonstration lab session. We’ll review the essentials for:
- sterile lab technique
- DIY mycology equipment
- cloning mushrooms to create starter cultures
- creating liquid culture spawn
- sawdust spawn development for inoculating logs to grow mushrooms outside
In-person participants will leave with a cloned mushroom sample and a liquid culture syringe of their chosen species.
No prior experience is needed—just curiosity and a love for fungi!
This is the first part of an event series with Biotech Without Borders and Cornell Small Farms Community Mushroom Educators to perform log inoculations across NYC in urban gardens. We will share links to those events here once they become available and also share details during this class.
Proceeds for this event go to support Biotech Without Borders and the log inoculation events.
About the Instructor:
Louis Vassar Semanchik (@lou.vase) has been cultivating mushrooms for over a decade, starting Southern Tier Mushrooms in Binghamton, NY and eventually managing cultivation for Smallhold’s farms in Brooklyn, Austin, and Los Angeles. He now manages Smallhold’s national network of independent mushroom farms to supply local mushrooms to retailers in each region of the country. He’s grown mushrooms inside restaurants, grocery stores, basements, backyards, and huge warehouses. Louis is always looking for the next opportunity to teach others how they can grow mushrooms with whatever resources they have.