Upcoming classes that are open to join!
Our 5-Day intensive hands-on courses in Mushroom Growing is now scheduled for 2024 dates! Our flagship first-of-its-kind course has brought together homesteaders, DIY gardeners, artists, teachers, home business start-ups, ecologists, and mushroom fans from around the globe since 2012. We are hosting on our new farm in Westfir, Oregon, a beautiful natural mixed meadow acreage…
Regenerative farmers, soil conservationists, and restoration ecologists will benefit from the techniques taught in this course, as you will be able to assess population health, plant symbiosis rates, and be able to further increase or introduce arbuscular mycorrhiza populations through cultivation techniques. In this hands-on course we will teach sampling methods, microscope techniques for monitoring,…
Westfir, Oregon: This July twenty individuals from across the planet will converge in a revolutionary training program designed to get them working with Fungi for environmental and social justice. The course is a new approach to accelerating the field of bioremediation with mushrooms and other fungi, an exciting area of research ripe with emerging…
From http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0084549 The extraordinary biological diversity of tropical forests harbors a rich chemical diversity with enormous potential as a source of novel bioactive compounds. Of particular interest are new environments for microbial discovery. Sloths – arboreal mammals commonly found in the lowland forests of Panama – carry a wide variety of micro- and macro-organisms on…
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