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Mushroom Cultivation for Everyone

(1 hour powerpoint lecture) – overview/beginner to intermediate

$400 for up to 20 attendees + $15 each additional attendee

If you think growing mushrooms is too complicated, here’s your chance to see how easy and rewarding it can be. This workshop will get you growing, and you’ll leave understanding the best ways to cultivate delicious mushrooms at home or on your farm. You’ll learn about inexpensive start-up options for beginners, and many commercial ideas to expand on.

Mushroom Cultivation for Everyone

(3-4 Hour Powerpoint workshop) – in depth/beginner to advanced commercial cultivation

$1000 for up to 20 attendees + $30 each additional attendee

If you think growing mushrooms is too complicated, here’s your chance to see how easy and rewarding it can be. This workshop will get you growing, and you’ll leave understanding the best ways to cultivate delicious mushrooms at home or on your farm. You’ll learn about inexpensive start-up options for beginners, and many commercial ideas to expand on.

This class will energize your efforts and maximize your production! Topics include: life cycle of fungi; mushroom behavior and intuitive growing; choosing, buying, and storing spawn; woodland mushroom farming (logs, wood chips, and composts); indoor production (small and large scale); converting existing structures into grow rooms (barns, chicken houses, storage containers); marketing your mushrooms (trends, demand, strategies); organic pest management; alternative product development (powders, extracts, composts).

Medicinal Mushroom Gardens – Cultivation and Preparation

(1 hour powerpoint lecture with Reishi Tea tasting)

$350 for up to 100 attendees + $1 each additional attendee

Learn the incredible properties of many common fungi that have been used for centuries. Find out about their effects on the human immune system and promising hope for developing protection and cures for deadly and pandemic diseases worldwide. Explore some of the most potent medicinal mushrooms and how you can grow them at home in your garden in this in-depth, but easy to digest class. Learn the cultivation principles and preparation of medicinal mushrooms for creating powders, extracts, and many other forms of fungal products that will stimulate your health and enhance your well-being.

Shroomin’ Off the Grid

(1 hour powerpoint)

$250 – unlimited attendance

Low –tech and no-tech methods for high yielding mushroom cultivation with a low-to-no carbon footprint. Solar pasteurization, mycelial magnification procedures, disaster relief modules, utilizing indigenous and invasive plants, mycovermiculture, circular and perpetual food systems designs. A great way to enhance a current mushroom production system or create a revolutionary food system concept of your own.

Summer and Tropical Mushroom Cultivation

(1 hour powerpoint)

$400 for up to 20 attendees + $15 each additional attendee

Hot, summer weather deters many mushroom growers from attempting fruiting during summer months or in more tropical climates, but there are a few great edibles that can be grown in intense heat under primitive and low-tech conditions that make them profitable candidates using locally available growing substrates.

Will cover cultivation strategies for paddy straw (Volvariella volvacea) , Giant Milky (Calocybe indica), Almond Portabella (Agaricus blazei/brasiliensis/subfrutescens), and more using tropical manures and native plant by-products such as hyacinth, banana fronds, sugar cane, invasives and other common tropical plant debris.

Recycling and Composting with Mushrooms

(1 hour powerpoint)

$250 – unlimited attendance

Are you wondering how you can help reduce pollution and lessen your impact on landfills? Join Tradd Cotter to learn how to grow edible mushrooms on trash you thought you couldn’t compost! Turn cardboard, cereal boxes and more in to fresh mushrooms, and then add your leftover “fungus farm” to your garden to attract worms and enrich the soil. Create a circular system that’s a winner!

Urban Mushroom Cultivation

(1 hour powerpoint)

$400 for up to 20 attendees + $15 each additional attendee

Rooftop, Patio, and Indoor Techniques (includes recycling, composting, hydroponic designs, intercropping with plants) for cultivating mushrooms in and around cities where space and resources are thought of as obstacles. This lecture breaks the mold

and explores the ways to successfully cultivate in small spaces, using growing materials commonly found or used or recycled from kitchen and home waste, converting it into edible mushrooms for you and your neighbors!

Soul Mates for Life: Native Plants and Their Fungal Partners

(1 hour powerpoint)

$250 – unlimited attendance

In order to sustain life on this planet, a complex matrix of organisms has evolved to orchestrate the balance. Our very existence relies on the bonds between them. Plants and fungi have merged and performed sacred vows, and continue to unveil their brilliance and benefits of collaborating with nature. We have a lot to learn from these relationships, and understanding the respect they have for each other can teach us more than just soil biology, they can help us speak their language. Our native plant communities are communicating through their own internet, reaching out to other organisms to help repair the ecosystems that perpetuate life on this planet.