Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 09:30

Sat, November 21, 2015 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM UBC FARM. $48 ($50 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. Growing your own mushrooms is an easy way to boost your home-grown nutrition and grow your own medicine. This workshop will offer an overview of some of the many ways you can grow mushrooms at your home or apartment and highlight ways you can make use of household waste as a food source for your mushrooms! This is suitable for beginners to mushroom cultivation, and for those who have tried without success to grow mushrooms. Each participant will leave with a grow kit of a delicious edible or medicinal mushroom and detailed instructions on care.

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About the Instructor

Danielle Stevenson is a fungi enthusiast living in 'Victoria' with 4 years of mushroom cultivation experience and a background in permaculture, organic food production and community-based work towards food sovereignty. She launched D.I.Y. Fungi to offer educational workshops and mushroom cultures (a.ka. “spawn”) for people of all ages to grow their own fungal food and medicine at their homes, gardens and farms; and to regenerate land and water systems by allying with fungi, plants, people and bacteria in ecological restoration and bioremediation projects.