Introduction to Easy Home Mushroom Cultivation

Embark on your exciting mushroom-growing journey and learn to cultivate your own delicious oyster mushrooms with our beginner-friendly workshop!​

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is tailored for absolute beginners who are interested in learning how to grow mushrooms in a straightforward, low-tech manner.

What You'll Learn:

Intro:

• Delve into the world of fungi, exploring their lifecycle and ecological significance

Growing mushrooms - how to:

• Learn to select suitable substrates for mushroom growth
• How to identify the best supplements to add to your substrates for better yields
• Pasteurisation times and temperatures
• How to inoculate substrates with grain spawn
• Creating low-tech DIY spawn
• Creating the ideal incubation and fruiting conditions

Tips, tricks and troubleshooting:

• When and how to harvest your mushrooms
• How to troubleshoot common issues when growing mushrooms
• Recognizing and preventing contamination
• Tricks to expedite fruiting and encourage multiple flushes of your fungi!

What To Expect:

By the end of this workshop, you'll have the skills and knowledge to successfully cultivate your own oyster mushrooms at home. There will be some time at the end of the class for extra questions.

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Add an optional mushroom-growing starter pack with everything you need to get started!

The starter pack includes:

• Growing medium
• Supplements
• Thermometer
• Oyster mushroom spawn
• Filter Bag​

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We'll ensure you leave with everything you need to begin your homegrown mushroom journey immediately.