Mushroom Cultivation Workshop for Beginners

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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 .

Joining us for this in-person workshop allows you to discount the cost from the tution for our year-long, online, Regenerative Mushroom Farmaing Certificate https://www.theforestfarmacy.com/regenerative-mushroom-farming

What you will learn

• 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

And much more

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!

Outdoor Cultivation

• 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

Low-tech Cultivation

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

What People Are Saying

“Really fascinating and inspiring! Practiced practical skills. Chris is an amazing educator and source of knowledge.”

“Be ready to drink from a firehose! Tons of great information. You will go home with new skills you can put to use immediately.”

“Chris is an approachable and welcoming expert. I got way more than I anticipated.”

“Chris was incredible in both his knowledge and presentation, only surpassed by his passion.”