Two Day Mushroom Cultivation Intensive

This intensive will give you the skills to cultivate edible and medicinal mushrooms for home use or as a small commercial mushroom farmer.  You will learn the detailed step by step process of how to cultivate mushrooms, from finding one in the wild through growing mycelium to fruiting mushrooms. We will explore different ways to make this process happen with varying levels of skills and tools needed. Participants will go home with the knowledge and materials to dive right into growing mushrooms.

Focus of the two days:

Fungal biology and ecology. We will start with the different roles fungi play in the environment and what their life cycles look like.

Sterile technique and lab prep. Learn how to create a sterile environment and properly work in it. We will work with culturing from mushrooms via tissue cloning and from spores in the lab setting.

Preparing and using different substrates for fruiting including wood, straw, and compost.

Creating fruiting environments and initiating mushroom formation both inside and outside.

Uses of fungi beyond culinary, including remediation and medicinal opportunities.

Hands on practice of the methods discussed and demonstrated for cultivating mushrooms.

The Intensive Includes:

Printed workbook outlining mushroom growing techniques, vocab, and resources

Four meals throughout the workshop, you worry about soaking in all the information we will provide local vegetarian meals and snacks throughout the 2 days.

Bring home an inoculated log, straw tubes, AND 2 mushroom cultures (shiitake and oyster)

Camping space available on a 3 acre property in Amherst MA.

Discounted spawn, we have Shiitake, Oyster, Maitake, and Wine Cap

Visit our website to register.  Registration is $175 before June 13th and $200 after.