Gourmet Mushroom Cultivation Workshop
Saturday, March 31st, 2012

chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms


shiitake mushrooms fruiting on a log

We have been cultivating several varieties of gourmet mushrooms for over a decade and we are now offering a day-long program featuring all you need to know to grow your own Shiitake, OysterWine-cap stropharia and other specialty mushrooms.

We will include:

  • Some Tips on wild mushroom gathering

  • Hands-on experience inoculating logs and wood-chip beds

  • Demonstration of cultivation of mushrooms on stumps and beds of woodchips

  • Inoculated logs, spawn and mushrooms to take home

  • A comprehensive mushroom cultivation supplies catalog to take hom

  • Wildflower walk

Pearl Oyster mushrooms fruiting on a log 
Grey Dove Oyster mushrooms fruiting on a stump 
  • Tour of our well-diversified organic farm

  • Mushroom cooking class with recipes to take home

  • Demonstrations of drying and other methods of preserving mushrooms

  • 2 Vegetarian meals prepared in our kitchen & wood-fired bake oven using our own home grown organic produce.

Registration deadline is March 24th, 2012