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DIY Mushroom Garden Basics FREE Webinar – Milkwood

Date & Time

1 February 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location

Online Event

Price

Free

Learning how to grow delicious gourmet mushrooms in your garden is a GREAT way to increase your household’s resilience, enhance your garden’s soil, AND make your tummy very happy, all at once.

And it’s safe, easy and even potentially free, once you have the basic bits you need.

The best bit about mushroom gardens? You don’t need any fancy equipment or ingredients at all – you can get started with a few foraged mushrooms (ID-ed correctly, of course) and some cardboard… and then slowly grow from there, up to an abundant garden of mushroomy goodness.

Mushroom gardens are a much-loved part of our backyard growing system  –  they’re easy to get going, support our garden ecosystem as they grow, and then, with very little fuss, pop up as regular harvests of tasty mushrooms for our breakfast!

And you don’t even need a garden to grow mushrooms like this – a tub on your balcony or back step can work well for this DIY growing technique, too.

Over the years, we’ve learned all about the ins and outs of successful mushroom garden cultivation – and we’d love to share our tried and tested, home-gold-standard, go-to techniques with you, for maximum mushrooms for everyone.

Once you understand the basics of creating a mushroom garden, the fungi-filled sky is your limit – you can experiment with different edible species that suit this technique (not all mushrooms grow this way! But we’ll cover that in the workshop) and try out all kinds of varied ways to bring mushrooms into your garden – solid in the knowledge that whatever you grow will be safe to eat and delicious.

By the end of our time together, you’ll be brimming with a solid understanding of mushroom garden basics, plus have a swag of ideas to get you started…

In this online Mini-Workshop, we’ll cover:

  • why mushrooms gardens are such a great idea
  • what kinds of edible mushrooms can be grown in gardens
  • the basic ingredients, and all the equipment you’ll need (not much)
  • how to clone edible mushrooms onto cardboard and make ‘cardboard spawn’
  • how to choose and prep a spot for your mushroom garden
  • how to prepare woodchips to grow your mushrooms in
  • how to take care of your mushroom garden until it fruits
  • how to harvest your mushrooms
  • how to ensure your mushroom garden keeps giving you mushroomy love for years
  • What resources to look at next for further learning
  • how to have fun while you do all this!
  • And then we’ll answer your questions LIVE in the Q&A with you.
Are you in?

Q –What time is this workshop? We’re doing multiple sessions – and both times should show up, in your local time-zone, in the drop-down above your name where you register above – so pick the one that best suits you.

Q –How long is this workshop? We’ll cover the above methods in 30-40 minutes, and then move onto the live Q&A. So 1 hour, tops.

Q – What if I can’t make it? Can I still watch somehow? Yes! Once you register for the workshop, you will be on the list to receive a copy of the mini-workshop recording afterwards – so if you can’t make it to the live version at the last moment, no worries (tho we will miss you).

Whether you can make the live session or not, we’ll also send you a resource list with recipes, DIY guides and great books, to light your mushroomy fire (is that a thing? it is now!)

We look forward to seeing you there x

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