Mushroom Straw Inoculation Workshop at Villagers

7 South Main Street,Burnsville NC 28714

09 April, 2022

Description

Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms at home is easy! Inoculating straw with mushroom spawn gives you delicious mushrooms more quickly. Mushrooms usually need some kind of substrate to grow on. Some yummy organic matter they can break down into food. Straw works really well! If you don’t have easy access to cut logs or wielding a chain saw is not your thing then straw inoculation might be your best way to get into mushroom cultivation. Certain mushrooms species will “clean” the straw of any pesticides that were sprayed on it breaking them down into hydrogen and carbon that can safely be returned to your garden soil. The mushrooms you eat will contain no trace of these toxins. This is a low-tech, no waste, regenerative way to grow mushrooms and easy enough to do at home. In this afternoon workshop you will receive: >> Access to Chris Parker’s 30 years of experience growing and working with mushrooms >> Initial understanding of how mushrooms grow >> Overview of how mycelium creates fruiting bodies >> Learn which species grow best on straw >> Learn how mushrooms break down and neutralize any toxins in the straw >> Learn how to pasteurize straw in various quantities >> Hands-on demonstration of how to inoculate straw >> Take home a star log you have inoculated ($25- 30 retail value)