Mushroom Cultivation: Intensive 3 day workshop

Mushrooms are for everyone. Working with fungi can be as intuitive, accessible, and inexpensive as starting a vegetable garden. Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms is neither difficult nor easy. You do not need an advanced degree in science to participate in this workshop (I have two degrees in art, not mycology). My workshop follows a simple philosophy: when you can experience and grasp the fundamentals of mushroom cultivation, you can independently problem solve any cultivation project (e.g. medicinal, outdoor, gourmet, scaled commercial farming, or purely experimental.)

This workshop will cover a wide range of cultivation strategies, from the utilization of inexpensive household appliances to high-tech sterile lab work. Our class will follow the life cycle of the mushroom in reverse order, starting with the fruiting stage of harvestable gourmet mushrooms and ending with tissue cloning wild mushrooms on nutrified agar on week 3 (seaweed extract poured in petri-dishes).

In this class we will cover:

Week 1: processing bulk substrates and building a fruiting chamber

Week 2: Processing, sterilizing, and inoculating grain spawn

Week 3: sterile lab work, working with agar, tissue transfers, and maintaining a culture library

This workshop will help you get your first mushroom project started, and give you the roadmap to expand your operation. During our 3 weeks together, each attendee will be given a digital reference book containing articles, pdfs, links, recommended vendors, and videos relevant to each aspect of mushroom cultivation covered during the workshop (hundreds of hours of material). This reference book is intended to guide your work after completing the course.

This workshop is recommended for new and intermediate cultivators. Open to all (ages 16+). Prior knowledge and experience is NOT required.

Led by Sam Shoemaker of Myco Myco

For questions: Info@mycomyco.farm

wwww.mycomyco.farm

www.samkshoemaker.com

Disclaimers *please read*

This is not a fully accessible facility. We will be working between my art studio and a basement facility, which is only accessible via a concrete staircase without hand rails.

No refund requests will be accepted after January 29th.

Upon request, I will be available for 90 minutes after each workshop to answer questions. Please email me before the day of the workshop if you have a special project or concern that you would like me to address during the workshop or privately after each session.

Once registered, our class will correspond via email. Please register for the workshop using an active email address. Further details including parking instructions will be provided within the week prior to the first day of class. Please contact me at info@mycomyco.farm if you do not receive an email from me by Friday February 10.