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Many people approach me wanting to know how I do it. How is the wild mushroom tamed? This is your chance to find out. The following classes are designed to deliver relevant information quickly, with tested teaching methods to facilitate retention.
I offer all my classes in two formats: classroom and one-on-one. The classroom format are classes on a fixed schedule, and we meet as a group in a classroom. The price is reduced as my time is spread over several students.
My one-on-one format allows students to learn around their schedule and areas of interest. We can meet whenever and wherever (ideally in the field), and 100% of my attention is focused on your understanding.
Call today to set up your learning experience. 970.884.0877
Mushroom Cultivation: An Overview
Mushroom Cultivation: An Overview
I'll show you what it takes to cultivate and harvest your own mushrooms. Growing mycelium and fruiting mushrooms require the proper balance of moisture, fresh air, temperature and humidity at every stage of production. We will look at indoor and low-maintenance, outdoor methods of oyster and shiitake production. Other edible and medicinal candidates will be discussed.
This class will include a quick overview of:
Fungi life cycles
Spawn production
Bulk Substrates
Fruiting parameters
Harvesting and preservation
Spore printing
Candidates for cultivation
Call to schedule - 970.884.0877
One-on-one
3 hours
$100
Sterile Tissue Culture
Sterile Tissue Culture
When you want to start mushrooms from spores or generate your own mushroom spawn, most growers use sterile tissue culture. Learn to grow lush mycelium while excluding competitor microbes.
Topics covered include:
Basic equipment for sterile work
Vectors of contamination
Agar culture
Scalpel technique
Inoculation loop technique
Grain culture
Spawn production
Call to schedule - 970.884.0877
One-on-one
3 hours
$100
30 Kinds of Mushrooms to Know (Six at a Time)
30 Kinds of Mushrooms to Know (Six at a Time)
I've chosen 30 prominent mushroom groups that everyone can learn to help them on their way to safe mushroom hunting. We will look at their telling characteristics, learn some latin, and note common, edible, medicinal and poisonous members of each. These classes will appeal to beginners and seasoned foragers alike. Just when you think you've met all the good ones, there are more! We focus on six genera in each two-hour session. Learn them all or join us for the ones you need to brush up on. (The names in parentheses will get an honorable mention:)
Call to schedule - 970.884.0877
One-on-one
10 hours total in the field
$300
Session 1 - Many edible gilled mushrooms
Agaricus - Meadow mushrooms, Portabello group
Marasmius - Fairy Ring Mushroom group
Pleurotus - Oyster Mushroom group
Flammulina - Enokitake group
Lentinula - Shiitake group
Hyphaloma
(Hypsizygus, Lentinus)
Session 2 - Highly poisonous and otherwise gilled mushrooms
Amanita - Fly Agaric, Destroying Angel group
Armilleria - Honey Mushroom, Matsutake group
Cortinarius
Lepiota
Psilocybe
Stropharia
(Galerina, Gymnopolis, Tricholoma)
Session 3 - Delicacies and odd balls
Auricularia - Wood Ear group
Calvatia - Giant Puffball group
Cantherellus - Chanterelle group
Morchella - Morel group
Sparassis - Cauliflower Mushroom group
Tuber - Truffle group
(Clavariadelphus, Cordyceps, Ramaria)
Session 4 - Common mushrooms, gilled and boletoid, with a handfull of shining stars
Boletus - Porcini group
Coprinus - Shaggy Mane group
Hygrophorus
Lactarius
Russula
Suillus
(Leccinum, Melanoleuca)
Session 5 - Polypores and toothed fungi
Fomitopsis - Agarikon group
Ganoderma - Reishi, Artist Conk group
Grifola - Maitake group
Hericium - Lion's Mane group
Laetiporus - Chicken of the Woods group
Trametes - Turkey Tail group
(Hydnum [Sarcodon], Lenzites, Phellinus)
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