Whether a small yard, or large acreage, you can successfully cultivate useful mushrooms for nutrition, soil health, medicine, and even art.

In this workshop, we will be exploring the use of the simple-to-grow Oyster mushrooms and how they can be applied in different ways, especially Permaculture systems. We will cover the lifecycle of Oyster mushrooms, basic hygiene, how to employ mushrooms in your systems, and methods to expand the fungi for larger scale use.

We will also talk about the various uses of other types of fungi, through experimentation.

As part of this hands-on workshop, we will make ‘expansion spawn’ containers as well as a ‘fruiting’ container, so you can enjoy the ‘fruits’ of your labour a few weeks later!

Delicious Oyster mushrooms!

This workshop engages keen participants for a full day, roughly six hours. The vast amount of information, exploration, and experimentation that is learned is priceless and will boost the intrigue and confidence of interacting with fungi. This will open the gateway to the magnificent Kingdom of Fungi.

At day’s end, you will leave with two valuable containers of mushroom spawn (one expansion, one fruiting), a new appreciation for fungi, a post-workshop email of the day’s information, a handy growing guide created by myself, and an invitation to my new group on Facebook where we can engage in feedback and support.

Please remember your pen and paper, water bottles, hat and sunscreen, lunch, and a keen sense of learning!

We look forward to seeing you at this workshop