Confidently Grow Mushrooms at Home & Learn to Identify Them In the Wild
Grow Food & Medicine ~ Save Money - Increase Your Self-Reliance
This super fungi training will guide you step-by-step in how to grow an abundance of nutritious and medicinal mushrooms at home. The techniques can be applied regardless of whether you live in an urban apartment or a rural homestead.
We also cover the foundations of learning to identify mushrooms in the wild and the foundations of learning to forage them confidently and sustainably.
The Benefits of Growing and Foraging
Sustainable & Organic
Self-Reliance & Food Security
Health & Medicinal Benefits
Mushroom School + Live Sessions
& Instructor Support
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$397
$247
/CAN (price in Canadian $)
/CAN (approx $184 USD)
Mushroom School is an expanded learning environment for those who want to go much deeper and with instructor and expert support.
This is for you if want to:
Learn the foundations of mushrooms growing and how to get started step-by-step. When your ready, we also cover more advanced techniques and species such as Lion’s Mane
Build your identification skills in the wild and work towards being able to forage safely and sustainably.
Develop a broader and more well rounded understanding of fungi across foraging, medicine making, ecology, preservation and cooking & other uses
Learn with instructor guidance and the support of a community as your interests and skills continue to grow
Have a place you can return to over time as questions arise and your interests grow
Includes:
Ongoing instructor and community support
Regular live Q and A sessions
Live expert guest sessions bring in specialty topics (see schedule below)
New lessons and material added throughout the year
30-Day, 100% Money Back Guarantee with one full year access
This option is ideal if you want ongoing guidance, live learning, and a deeper relationship with mushrooms across food, medicine, ecology, cultivation & more.
What You Can Expect From
Mushroom School
Clear step-by-step instructions - Acquire the knowledge & confidence to grow edible & medicinal mushrooms at home {indoors & out}.
Fantastic video tutorials - Learn how to identify mushrooms in the wild. Great for those looking to get into mushroom foraging.
Save money & improve your food security - The best techniques to save you time, money & increase your self-reliance {learn to grow & forage an entire year of food}.
Support and guidance - How to get all the required materials for home-scale growing.
Ask your questions - An inspiring & supportive online community to help you and your mushrooms grow!
The 2026 Live Expert Schedule Will Be Added Soon!
Bonus Expert Live Sessions with Q&A
( ALL PAST SESSION REPLAYS ARE AVAILABLE INSIDE THE COURSE )
Working with Lions Mane, Medicine Making & Growing
Special Guest: Shane O'Donnell
(Heartwood Mushrooms)
Lions' Mane (Hericium spp) is a well-researched fungus with many medicinal benefits. But knowing how to properly process
and work with them is key.
This class will be a deep dive into its medicinal properties, how to grow it at home and making your own extracts, food and medicine. From brain health to reducing inflammation to absolutely being delicious to eat, it's time to get to know Lions Mane!
WITH SHANE O'Donnell
WITH CHRIS GLIMOUR
Working with Lions Mane, Medicine Making & Growing
Special Guest: Me! (Chris Gilmour)
This call will be an overview of everything I do to get ready for the spring outdoor mushroom growing season. Bring your questions and we will have some fun diving into Shiitake logs, logs towers, inoculating garden beds, fun mushroom growing experiments I'm trying this year and more...
Getting Ready for the Foraging Season: Indentification & Spring Mushrooms
Special Guest: Laura Gilmour
(Wild Muskoka Botanicals) & Steve Lukacic
The spring foraging season is upon us. Join these two incredibly knowledgeable foragers as they discuss the essentials of proper identification as well as what mushrooms you can forage in the Spring & Summer months.
With laura gilmour & steve Lukacic
Fall Foraging, Identification & Fungi Ecology
Special Guest: Steve Lukacic
The fall foraging season is upon us. Join us as we discuss fall mushroom ecology, identification and foraging.
With Steve Lukacic
With Shane O'Donnell
Myco-remediation & Working with Fungi Beyond Food & Medicine
Special Guest: Shane O'Donnell
(Heartwood Mushrooms)
This call will be an overview of everything I do to get ready for the spring outdoor mushroom growing season. Bring your questions and will have some fun diving into Shiitake logs, logs towers, inoculating garden beds, fun mushroom growing experiments I'm trying this year and more...
DIY Indoor Mushroom Growing
Special Guest: Shane O'Donnell
(Heartwood Mushrooms)
Join us as we talk about getting ready for the indoor mushroom growing season. Shane runs a commercial growing business and we will discuss getting set-up to grow indoors safely and effectively for year-round food and medicine production.
Shane O'Donnell is back!
Laura Gilmour is back!
Mushroom in the Kitchen & Medicine Chest
Special Guest: Laura Gilmour
(Wild Muskoka Botanicals)
Laura runs a Wild Muskoka Botanicals, a sustainably wild foraged foods and drinks business. She also teaches in-depth classes on herbal & mushroom medicine making.
Join her as she shares some of her tips and recipes around working with mushrooms in the kitchen & making your own medicinal extracts to support your health!
Meet Your Mentors...
Hi, We Are Chris and Laura Gilmour
We were introduced to mushroom cultivation and wild foraging over 20-years ago while apprenticing in permaculture and sustainable forest management on 7 Ravens Farm.
Today we live on a twenty-six acre homestead where we grow and forage food for ourselves and our wild foods business, Wild Muskoka. We have been growing and foraging mushrooms on our homestead for the past 14 years working with various techniques and species.
Chris is the lead mentor in the growing component of this course, and Laura is the lead mentor in the wild fungi identification lessons.
On top of Chris & Laura's mentoring, you will also have access to a bunch of expert guests through the live sessions and there replay's.
Some of the Many School 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 OUTSIDE
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 MUSHROOM WALK-INTRO TO FORAGING
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.
Not Your Average, Boring Online Course
We strive to create a different kind of online learning experience. One that is entertaining, engaging, and allows you to build authentic relationships with the instructors and other participants.
Post pictures, ask questions and come along with us on Virtual Mushroom Identification Walks.
Increase Your Self-Reliance and Grow Your Mushroom Knowledge
