Learn Mushroom
Cultivation and Grow Your Own!
Edible mushrooms can be a great small-scale crop with the right techniques and a little patience.
Whether you have a tiny backyard or hundreds of acres, growing gourmet mushrooms can be a satisfying and tasty venture. In the Pacific Northwest, there are about a dozen species including oyster, shiitake, and maiitake, which can be grown using many of our native tree species. However, ensuring success with this type of backyard farming involves developing a good understanding of the process and knowledge of the techniques involved.
Join us Saturday, April 18, 2015 from 10am to 2:30pm at Ed’s Apples to learn about the different types of edible mushrooms that can be grown both indoors and outdoors in our area, as well as how you can start your own ‘fungi farm’. Ed’s Apples is at 13420 339th Ave SE (aka Rice Road) in Sultan.
Topics covered will include the different species that grow well in our climate and forests along with a discussion of several growing media such as log, stump, sawdust and straw culture. Demonstrations will include how to prepare and inoculate logs, as well as harvest and care procedures to encourage optimum production. We will also feature a demonstration on the low-tech processing and cultivation of oyster mushrooms using pasteurized wheat straw for indoor production. This cultivation method will appeal to those wanting to produce mushrooms in a very short time frame with minimal equipment. All participants will take home a packet of shiitake plug spawn along with complete instructions to cultivate your own outdoor mushroom logs.
Instructor Jim Gouin is a staff mycologist with Fungi Perfecti, an Olympia-based company that specializes in supplying home and commercial mushroom growers with everything needed for success. Jim also has a forestry background and teaches forest fungi cultivation workshops throughout North America.
The cost is $80 per person, which includes the workshop, handouts, box lunch, and 100 shiitake plugs to take home. Couples rate is $125, which includes two lunches, one set materials, and 100 shiitake plugs. Pre-paid registration must be received by April 14, 2015!
Register online at mushrooms.brownpapertickets.com. You can also download the form at snohomish.wsu.edu/mushroom-cultivation and mail with your check. For more information, contact Kate Halstead at (425) 357-6024, khalstead@wsu.edu.
Edible mushrooms can be a great small-scale crop with the right techniques and a little patience.
Whether you have a tiny backyard or hundreds of acres, growing gourmet mushrooms can be a satisfying and tasty venture. In the Pacific Northwest, there are about a dozen species including oyster, shiitake, and maiitake, which can be grown using many of our native tree species. However, ensuring success with this type of backyard farming involves developing a good understanding of the process and knowledge of the techniques involved.
Join us Saturday, April 18, 2015 from 10am to 2:30pm at Ed’s Apples to learn about the different types of edible mushrooms that can be grown both indoors and outdoors in our area, as well as how you can start your own ‘fungi farm’. Ed’s Apples is at 13420 339th Ave SE (aka Rice Road) in Sultan.
Topics covered will include the different species that grow well in our climate and forests along with a discussion of several growing media such as log, stump, sawdust and straw culture. Demonstrations will include how to prepare and inoculate logs, as well as harvest and care procedures to encourage optimum production. We will also feature a demonstration on the low-tech processing and cultivation of oyster mushrooms using pasteurized wheat straw for indoor production. This cultivation method will appeal to those wanting to produce mushrooms in a very short time frame with minimal equipment. All participants will take home a packet of shiitake plug spawn along with complete instructions to cultivate your own outdoor mushroom logs.
Instructor Jim Gouin is a staff mycologist with Fungi Perfecti, an Olympia-based company that specializes in supplying home and commercial mushroom growers with everything needed for success. Jim also has a forestry background and teaches forest fungi cultivation workshops throughout North America.
The cost is $80 per person, which includes the workshop, handouts, box lunch, and 100 shiitake plugs to take home. Couples rate is $125, which includes two lunches, one set materials, and 100 shiitake plugs. Pre-paid registration must be received by April 14, 2015!
Register online at mushrooms.brownpapertickets.com. You can also download the form at snohomish.wsu.edu/mushroom-cultivation and mail with your check. For more information, contact Kate Halstead at (425) 357-6024, khalstead@wsu.edu.
Fundamentals of Drip Irrigation
May 20th - 1-3:30 and 6-8:30 and June 18th 1-3:30 and 6-8:30pm (same class repeated 4 times)
Cost is $20 per person or $30 for a couple sharing materials and working together. Cash or check payable to WSU Extension. No credit cards. Refund Policy: No cash refunds. Minimum charge will be retained; remainder credited toward future workshops registration if cancelled 48 hrs. prior. No refund or credit for no show.
Cash, or Check made payable to WSU Extension. No credit cards.
Refund Policy: No cash refunds. Minimum charge will be retained; remainder credited toward future workshops registration if cancelled 48 hrs. prior. No refund or credit for no shows.
