Adam will lead participants in a day long workshop featuring everything fungi! After some general overview of fungi, we’ll roll up our sleeves to inoculate logs with shiitake spawn from 10a.m.-12p.m. and from 1-3p.m. we’ll make oyster mushroom buckets.
Price is $60 for the day, which includes your own shiitake log and an oyster bucket.
A few things to note: you’re encouraged to bring a power driver, if you have one. You are also welcome to bring a sack lunch especially if you’re staying for both workshops. We have a fridge!
A little more about the day:
Adam routinely facilitates a mushroom unit with his biology students. Students team up and have to grow, sell and prepare shiitake mushrooms for a guest chef. This hands on unit is what inspired him to want to try growing our own. When we moved to Tailwind Acres, and had more land and space for such ventures, we tried starting oyster mushrooms inside. Truthfully, it was a total flop! So, we decided to sign up for an intensive workshop at Midwest Organic Farming Conference. This helped us “think” like fungi and set the foundation to expand our operation. We now grow for our own consumption, sell here and there via pop up sales and also provide to restaurants throughout northeast Iowa. Adam instructed some very popular workshops at the Decorah Public Library showcasing mushrooms! Join us, as we can help you bypass the mistakes we made and set you up for growing and enjoying your own mushrooms!
