Community Programs

Our previous offering of this workshop was wildly popular, so we are having it again! Since our last workshop filled quickly, those that weren't able to attend last time now have another chance to experience the fun of learning about fungi.

Come learn how to grow your own mushrooms on logs, in containers, and in garden beds at this interactive workshop.

Our instructor, Seth Beu, has years of experience growing mushrooms for restaurants with his business Primordia Farms. He's spent countless hours hanging out with various fungi in the forests and instructing workshops just like this one. Seth will bring this knowledge, and knowledge gained from Dr. Elaine Ingham's Intensive Soil Food Web & Microscope course, to instruct you on growing your own edible mushrooms.

This course will be broken into 2 different sections.

The first section will be a lecture with free form Q&A throughout, and will cover:
- 3 different ways to grow mushrooms from start to finish
- Different growing substrates and field capacity
- How to create and use liquid culture, grain spawn, and inoculated straw
- How to pasteurize, sterilize, and avoid contamination
- Integrating mushrooms into the garden space
- What to do with your grow kit afterwards

The second section will be a hands-on, and will include:
- How to make a blue oyster mushroom and winecap mushroom kit to take home
- How to clone fungi you find in the forest

All supplies will be provided. If you prefer, you can bring your own reusable container, like a large, sterilized, lidded plastic container for your grow kit (a large yogurt container is perfect). Also, bring a notebook to take notes, there's a lot of knowledge to learn!

This event will take place inside the Red Barn, a heated building. There is a wheelchair accessible path and bathrooms onsite.