Mushroom Spawn Production Classes (online)

Tropical Fungi Academy

This course will teach you how to take the microscopic and turn it into food. From foraged mushroom to grain spawn!

What is mushroom spawn and why do we need it?I know how to forage… but what if I want to grow the mushrooms I find? How difficult is it? These people are selling spore syringes and these are selling liquid culture syringes. What’s the difference and when should I use one over the other?All these questions and more will be answered at our spawn production class!During this course, you will learn everything you need to know about how to cultivate mushrooms from spore to spawn. We will cover everything from quick and easy methods of making grain spawn on birdseed, all the way up to selecting cultures by phenotype in agar. No labcoat needed!This course will teach you how to take the microscopic and turn it into food. Follow it from start to finish to learn how to create grain spawn from a mushroom you foraged in the woods! This Mushroom Spawn Course is designed for all competency levels. You will be eased in with info about the fungal life cycle as context for how and why we approach certain protocols in the lab. By the end of this course you will know enough to produce mushrooms as a side job or help in securing cultures to catalog local species in your area! Please join us March 22nd, March 23rd, and March 24th from 5:30PM - 7:00 PM (HST) to learn more about capturing and conserving the fungal life around us. *﻿All courses will be recorded, so if you happen to miss any one of the classes do not worry. We will make the recordings available to you.March 22nd, 2023 - Mushroom Spawn 101: Fungal Lifecycle and How We MimicMarch 23rd, 2023 - Tools You Need: Where to Find or How to Make Everything for your OperationMarch 24th, 2023 - Playing in Agar: Spore prints and CloningApril 8th, 2023, 11:30am-1pm - Low-tech and Low-key: Easy Home Methods For Grain Spawn ProductionApril 8th, 2023, 2:30pm-4pm - Serious Business: Efficiency and Scaling---P﻿hoto credit: Robert Volpe, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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