In-Person Edible & Medicinal
Mushroom Growing Workshops
Save Money - Increase Your Self-Reliance ~ Grow Food & Medicine!
This fungi class will cover the foundations of how to grow edible and medicinal mushrooms at home, both indoors and outside.
Each participant will go home with a Shiitake Mushroom log and a bag of straw inoculated with Oyster Mushrooms that they did themselves. We will also create an outdoor Wine Cap Mushrooms Garden Bed as a group.
In addition, each participant will also get lifetime access to my online mushrooms course where they can review materials and watch additional lessons including wild mushroom identification.
Where: Dwight, Ontario
When (Two Options):
Option 1: Sunday, May 11th, 10am - 3:30pm
Option 2: Monday, May 12th, 10am - 3:30pm
Cost: $220 + HST** Only 10 spots!
The Benefits of Growing and Foraging
Sustainable & Organic
Self-Reliance & Food Security
Health & Medicinal Benefits
What's Included in the Online Portion of the Course:
Dozens of videos showing you step-by-step how to grow indoors and outside
Troubleshooting videos to address common issues
Links for where to acquire your growing spawn and other materials
Worksheets with clear instructions
The "Virtual Mushroom Walk" ~ Learn about the ID features, habitat and properties of common wild species
Lessons on Fungi Ecology, their role in nature and how to do spoor prints
A community to ask questions and share your excitement with
Course Lessons
WELCOME & SAFETY
A course tour and important lessons around safety when growing at home and handling wild mushrooms.
GETTING STARTED
An introduction on how to get set up to grow in your unique situation (ex: urban vs rural). We also teach you how to save money and grow more by expanding your initial mushroom spawn culture.
GROWING OYSTERS ON COFFEE GROUNDS
Learn to grow Oyster Mushrooms indoors on leftover coffee grounds. This is a great beginners project to learn the fundamentals.
GROWING ON STRAW INDOORS OR OUTSID
This technique is a low-cost way to grow a significant amount of food and medicine in a small space year-round.
GROWING MUSHROOMS ON LOGS
With minimal annual work, a mushroom log can produce food and medicine for 3 - 8 years. We will walk you through it step-by-step.
THE LOG TOWER METHOD
This outdoor growing technique requires less work and time than growing on logs. You could even do it on an apartment balcony.
THE VIRTUAL MUSHROMM WALK-INTRO TO FORAGINGirtual
Begin your adventure with a virtual mushroom walk and learn the foundations of identification with our mushroom scavenger hunt.
GROW WINE CAPS IN GARDEN BEDS
Learn how to grow mushrooms in your existing garden beds to increase production while building your soil health.
FUNGI ECOLOGY
Learn about the fascinating role fungi and mycelium networks play in the planet's ecology and other ways we can work with them, from art to healing damaged landscapes.
