Saturday, June 2, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Gardening with Mushrooms
Join Alex Dorr of Fungi Ally at Berkshire Botanical Garden on June 2 from 10 – 1 for this hands-on workshop to turn your garden into an arena of decomposition and mushroom production! Gain the tools and knowledge to transform agricultural waste to grow your own food and medicine for your family and community. We will work with tree mushrooms in particular: wine caps, almond portobellos, and oysters. Participants will become familiar with techniques of cultivating these mushrooms for food, medicine, or mycoremediation purposes. This workshop will include building a wood- chip bed of wine cap mushrooms (Go home with myceliated chips to start your bed own mushroom bed), adding Almond Portobellos to your garden via compost, and growing oyster mushrooms in mulch. We will also discuss transferring and expanding these mushrooms without buying spawn, and using Wine Cap mushrooms in mycoremediation applications.
Alex Dorr is the lab manager, spawn producer, and education coordinator for Fungi Ally. Fungi Ally’s goal is to connect people with the wonderful world of fungi. Author of the published book Mycoremediation Handbook: Grassroots Guide to Growing Mushrooms and Cleaning up Toxic Waste with Fungi. Working with various other projects including Corenewal, a 501c3 non profit organization in Ecuador cleaning up oil spills and a mycoremediation team based in the USA consulting big industries and doing research. Alex has certifications including Master Soils and Fungi certification, Clean room techniques, and commercial mushroom spawn certification. He has taught mushroom workshops all around the country for years! Dedicated to connecting people with the healing abundance that fungi provides!
Advance registration is highly recommended, but walk-ins are always welcome, space permitting. BBG members $45, nonmembers $55. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/gardening-mushrooms