Spring Mushroom Growing Workshops in the works!

Kultured Mushrooms, the newly formed group focused on promoting the education & action of mushroom growing, had a meeting this past week to discuss organizing a mushroom growing workshop this Spring.  We are currently looking at April as a possibility, with no confirmed dates yet.

The workshop would cover similar material as this past Dec's workshop- with basic mushroom production techniques, but will also include extensive information on the lab sciences related to mushroom cultivation and how to grow mycelia and spores.  It will most likely work  in a two-day type fashion with half of the workshop dealing with petri dishes and lab work- while the other half will be an expansion on this past Dec's production techniques including various methods for growing mushrooms in outdoor beds.  We will extend the mushroom bed that we started at Possibilitarian Garden in December, go through the process of pasteurizing straw, and installing a new mushroom bed with different mushroom cultivars (we are thinking Reishi will be one we want to focus on growing this time).  We will most likely make straw grow bags for people to take home- like we did with the blue oysters in the last session (my second flush of mushrooms are just starting!).  And Kilindi Iyi, the knowledgeable, awesome and accessible speaker & mushroom cultivator from Detroit, will be coming back to lead much of the workshop.

Good things ahead.  I can see the mycelium spreading, can't you?  It won't be long now till we see the fruiting of all these connections!

Stay posted to hear more about the upcoming workshops....

You can find Kultured Mushrooms on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kultured-Mushrooms/407063829360261.