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
Where is your schooling located??
We are in Westfir, Oregon. 35 Miles East of Eugene, Oregon
Hi,
I saw that November 2022 is complete. If by any chance there is enough cancellation so I can get in please let me know.
If I didn’t get enough chance for November 2022, I would be very happy to have the chance to join the group of March or November 2023.
Thanks ahead
Hello Richard,
Thank you for the inquiry, the 2023 schedule was recently posted , hopefully the dates scheduled work for you.
Be well,
Ja Schindler
Director
Fungiforthepeople.org