Monday:
9:30 am
- Hellos, Round of Introductions
- Schedule, Workbook, Design Planning
- Intro to Fungi: Identification, Lifecycle, Ecology
- Field Ecology Walk / Farm Tour
1-2pm Lunch
2:30pm
- Cultivation Overview
- 1.5 hour Evening Presentation: Multitudes of Mushroom Varieties
6:30pm Break For Dinner
Tuesday:
9:30am – Mushroom Lab 101:
- Laboratory / Production Facility Tour
- Intro to Lab Tools and Techniques
- Wild Culturing
- Spawn Making
1-2pm Lunch
2:30pm Mushroom Lab 201
- Class Cleanroom Hands-On Sessions: Clone – Agar – Grain Spawn – Bulk Spawn
6:30pm Break for dinner
7:30pm 1.5 Hour Evening Presentation: Cultivation History and Future Potentials
Wednesday:
9:30am – Bulk Materials
- Sawdust prep and Sterilization Techniques
- Straw prep and Pasteurization Techniques
- Prep of other materials: coffee grounds, brewery grain etc.
- Mushroom Composts
1-2pm Lunch
2:30pm – MycoPermaculture
- Landscape Integration and Plant Partnerships
- Creative Problem Solving with Mushrooms
- Seasons and Bioregions
- Outdoor Growing Projects
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
2:30pm Mushroom Lab 301: Advanced Skills
- Strain Selecting
- Culture Libraries
- Liquid Culturing
- Microscopy
4:30 Pm – Indoor Mushroom Growing in-depth
- Mushroom House design variables
- Construction details
- Materials and Equipment options and Use
- Growth Schedule management
- Harvesting, Storing, Packing
6:30pm Break for Dinner
7:30pm Continue Indoor Focus
Friday:
9:30am – MycoRemediation:
- MycoFilters
- Chemicals vs. Heavy Metals
- MycoPesticides
- Anti-Desertification work
- Project Planning
- Growing Endomycorrhizae at Home
- Accessing and Assessing Research Publications
1-2pm Lunch
- MycoRemediation Continues
- Design Plan Sharing and Growing Forward
6:30pm Break for Dinner
7:30pm Post-Course Hot Spring Adventure!
Saturday:
All-Day Wild Mushroom Foray in the Cascades
9am qi-gong session every morning for 20-30 minutes
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings are also available for
Open Lab Practice sessions, with staff guidance
