Growing Mushrooms – A weekend intensive workshop
This 2 day mushroom workshop includes everything you need to grow. You will leave with actual skills that you develop during the in class coaching.
This is not just a lecture but an interactive skill building workshop.
You will personally work through the whole cultivation process along with your classmates and instructors, and you will bring your work home.
Students will learn to pour agar plates, make agar to agar transfers and to make spore to agar inoculations.
Students will make and inoculate both grain spawn jars and bulk substrate bags.
Each student will have access to every tool needed for a home laboratory setup so there can be real time learning and practice not just observation.
Class begins with a very brief intro to the mushroom life cycle followed by a short lecture on lab procedures and concepts.
Next, students will watch several live demonstrations and have the opportunity to practice each technique several times.
Instructors will observe students and make personalized corrections to their procedure.
No previous experience or knowledge is needed but this is a class that even experienced growers can benefit from.
Students will be asked to use controlled hand and arm movements.
Schedule:
Saturday - prep day
9am-12pm introduction to PFtek, agar and liquid culture preparation
12pm-1pm lunch order takeout or bring your own food
1pm-4pm grain spawn and bulk substrate preparation
Sunday - inoculation day
9am- 12pm Agar techniques and shortcut techniques
12pm -1pm lunch - order takeout or bring your own food
1pm-4pm substrate inoculations and fruiting techniques
Class includes:
- Blades and Parafilm to be used in class
- 1 master mushroom culture to be used in class
- 10 agar plates made and used in class
- A fresh mushroom to clone in class
- 1 spore print
- 1 pint liquid culture jar to be made and inoculated in class
- 1 liquid culture syringe for use in class
- 1 sterile grain jar made and inoculated in class
- 1 premade mushroom spawn used to inoculate bulk substrate
- 1 bulk substrate bag made and inoculated in class
Students keep the cultures they make in class. This a 12 hour no nonsense class.
class is limited to 6 students. Masks are required to be warn for the entire class.
Refunds will not be given less than 2 weeks before class.
