Mushrooms from A-Z: Preparing and Growing Fungi for Food and Medicine, with Linda Conroy

Instructors: Linda Conroy, Ingrid Daudert

Whether you grow, forage or purchase mushrooms, it is easy to bring them into your kitchen and medicine chest. Learn how to best prepare mushrooms for optimal benefit and get inspired to incorporate them into your daily life through this informative workshop. The second part of the day will be spent learning to grow mushrooms and everyone will take home their own inoculated log.

This program will have 2 parts.

1. Mushrooms in the Kitchen and Apothecary (10 am -noon) The first part of the day will be spent learning to prepare mushrooms for food and medicine. After a presentation on the healing properties of mushrooms by herbalist Linda Conroy, everyone will make several preparations to take home.

Delicious Mushroom based lunch (noon-1pm)

1. Mushroom Cultivation (1-4 pm) Ingrid Daudert will talk about mushroom cultivation. This talk will be followed by a hands-on process of shiitake mushroom log inoculation. During the hands-on component, everyone will help to inoculate logs, followed by learning to prepare and inoculate a wine cap mushroom bed. Everyone will take home an inoculated log, as well as handouts, recipes, and instructions. Additional logs will be available for purchase.

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Date: Sunday, June 27, 2021
Registration Deadline: 6/21/21
Time: 10AM - 4:00PM
Course Fee: $75
Materials Fee: $45
Location: Albion, WI