Mushroom Cultivation Workshop
Home grown shiitake mushrooms are a treat to eat! Come join a community work party at a Tree Farm in Conway, led by local educator Stephen Bannasch. Learn how to make your own edible mushroom spawn-inoculated logs. We’ll provide the logs and the mushroom supplies – you supply the elbow grease, to create inoculated logs to take away.
Oak and maple logs grown in western Massachusetts forests are ideal for growing edible mushrooms. Three to four foot logs cut from Bascom Hollow Farm in Gill will be available for the group to prepare together. In teams of two, we’ll drill, fill and seal the logs – then share a light, provided lunch and talk fungi. We’ll be working in a new barn, built with wood right from the Tree Farm, so the party can take place rain or shine.
Saturday April 27, 2024
10:00am - 1:00pm
Rain or Shine, light lunch provided.
The event is free of charge. Participants will be provided 3-5 newly inoculated shiitake logs and one previously inoculated log intended to bloom this season. Additional prior cultivated logs will be available to purchase $10/log.
Spaces capped at 12. Wait list available.
Registration is now full.
Event sponsored by MA Woodlands Institute and Franklin Land Trust. Funded in part by generous support of the Conway and Deerfield Local Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
