Mushroom Growing - 2 Day Workshop, March

Develop mushroom cultivation skills during the in-class coaching.

Spore-to-store lectures paired with live demonstrations followed by guided practice of every cultivation procedure.

Each student will have their own workstation, complete with all tools, using a still air box and a laminar flow hood.

Instructors will observe each student and make personalized corrections to their procedures.

Students will:

o  Pour plates,

o  Do agar transfers,

o  Do spore inoculations.

o  Make growing substrates

o  Inoculate substrates

o  Take home materials (See the take-home kit here )

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.

This is a 17-hour no-nonsense class.

class is limited to 8 students.

Refunds will not be given less than 2 weeks before the class.

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-5pm 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-5pm substrate inoculations and fruiting techniques. fruiting parameters and fruiting chambers.

Class includes:

- Blades and Parafilm to be used in class

- 1 master mushroom culture to be used in class

- 20 agar plates made and used in class

- fresh mushrooms 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.