Monday:
9:30 am – Hellos, Intro’s
– Schedule, Workbook, Design Planning
– Intro to Fungi: Identification, Lifecycle, Ecology
1-2pm Lunch
20 min Qi Gong session
2:30pm
– Field Ecology Walk
– Cultivation Overview
6:30pm Break For Dinner
7:30pm 1.5 hour Evening Presentation: Multitudes of Mushroom Varieties
Tuesday:
9:30am – Mushroom Lab 101:
– Intro to Tools and Techniques
– Wild Culturing
– Spawn Making
1-2pm Lunch
20min Qi Gong session
2:30pm Mushroom Lab 201
– Bulking Up
– Pasteurizing
– Cold Water Pasteurization
6:30pm Break for dinner
7:30pm 1.5 Hour Evening Presentation: Cultivation History and Future Potentials
Wednesday:
9:30am – MycoPermaculture:
– Growing Outdoors
– Mushroom Composts
– Problem Solving
– Social and Environmental impact
1-2pm Lunch
20min Qi Gong session
2:30pm – MycoPermaculture: continued
– Greenhouse Growing
– Indoor Growing
6:30 Break for Dinner
7:30pm 1.5 hour Evening Presentation: Making BioChar (Bonfire Session)
Thursday:
9:30am – Mushroom Medicine
– Identification
– Preparations and Uses
– Effects and Doses
1-2pm Lunch
20min Qi Gong session
2:30pm Mushroom Lab 301: Advanced Skills
– Strain Selecting
– Culture Libraries
– Liquid Culturing
– Microscopy
6:30pm Break for Dinner
7:30pm 1 hour Evening Presentation: Growing Endomycorrhizae at Home
Friday:
9:30am – Mycoremediation:
– MycoFilters
– Chemicals vs. Heavy Metals
– MycoPesticides
– Anti-Desertification work
– Project Planning
– Self-Care
1-2pm Lunch
20min Qi Gong
-MycoRemediation Continues
– Design Share and Growing Forward
6:30pm Break for Dinner
7:30pm Post-Course Hot Spring Adventure!
Saturday:
All-Day Wild Mushroom Foray in the Cascades
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings are also available for
Open Lab Practice sessions, with staff guidance
