GOURMET & MEDICINAL MUSHROOM LOG CULTIVATION

Demand for specialty mushrooms is rapidly rising, as we look to purchase more foods that are healthy, nutritious, medicinal and to support small local communities. There are methods to grow mushrooms outdoor systems on logs, stumps, and in beds, as well as indoor production techniques that can occur in a wide range of spaces on straw, sawdust, and other agricultural materials. This DONATION BASED workshop will focus on helping you to be inspired, informed and skilled to start your own gourmet/medicinal mushroom log cultivation.

NOTE: The kit is NOT required for the course, but purchasing it and completing the related activities will aid your skill-building during this workshop and also make the workshop more fun and interactive!

⚠️Check this webpage if interested to buy the kit: https://growmushroomscanada.ca/

⚠️Remember to source the logs 🪵 according with the mushroom you will be cultivating:

(only use freshly cut branches from healthy living trees)

🍄Shiitake Lentinula edodes 3-4 feet long & 3-7 inches in diameter

🪵 BEST: Oak Species(Quercus spp.); Sugar Maple(Acer saccharum)

🍄30  Pink Oyster or Yellow/Golden oyster

TOTEM: 10-14” in diameter 2’ long

🪵 BEST: Poplar; Aspen; Cottonwood; Willow; Tulipetree; Box Elder

🍄Lion’s Maine Hericium erinaceus

TOTEM: 10-14” in diameter 2’ long

🪵 American Beech; Hard Sugar Maple; Oak; Hackberry & Mulberry

🍄 Reishi

🪵 Hard Sugar Maple; Sweetgum

🍄Maitake Grifola frondosa (hen of the wood)

🪵Oak

🍄Turkey Tail Trametes versicolor

🪵 Hard Sugar Maple; Oak

SUGGESTED READING: 

"DIY Mushroom Cultivation: Growing Mushrooms at Home for Food, Medicine and Soil"(Willoughby Arevalo)

"The Complete Mushroom Hunter: An Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms

(Gary Lincoff)