Amazing Mushrooms - Cultivating Mushrooms at Home

1395 Coronado Avenue,Long Beach CA 90804

26 March, 2022

Description

Join Long Beach Mushrooms as we learn how to cultivate these delicious fungi at home. An established part of the local agriculture and culinary community, Long Beach Mushrooms is a staple at local farmer's markets and a trusted supplier for chefs and restaurants. Seeking to answer their customers' most frequent questions -- "How do I cook those?" and "What are the health benefits?" -- Long Beach Mushrooms will lead a three session series exploring different species, their health benefits, how to prep and cook them, as well as how to cultivate your own at home. Guests will enjoy a cooking demonstration and go home with recipes and their own spent substrate and instructions to grow your own mushrooms at home! This first session in our Amazing Mushrooms Series will teach guests how to cultivate their own mushrooms at home. Three methods will be demonstrated and discussed, along with their environmental impact and benefit, and guests will go home with their own spent substrate for cultivating their own mushrooms. MIA & JUSTIN NGUYEN Mia and Justin started with just the simple idea of growing their own food. 8 garden beds, 6 chickens, 5 fruit trees, and 2 worm bins later and they began growing mushrooms out of buckets. Their mission is to provide hyper-local produce as well as break barriers within the community through their urban agriculture proof of concept business. Justin, an Assistant Principal, and Mia, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, merge education and healthcare in their urban agriculture adventures. They hope to provide jobs, experiential learning, and hyper-local produce within the community and as well as educate around the health, morality, and wealth of local agriculture. Follow them on Instagram.