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

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