Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022

Time: 10 am - 2 p.m.

Location: East Waco Library

Donation: $5+ Donation

Join Central Texas Mycological Society and National Women in Agriculture for a workshop on how to grow mushrooms. Bring your own container (see examples below) and we will bring the rest.

This workshop will give you the practical knowledge to learn how to use spent mushroom substrate (SMS) to build healthy soil, sequester carbon, increase water retention, feed the soil web, your plants and eventually you! This workshop will cover the basic biology and then we will show you low-cost and low-tech ways to recycle SMS and other organic matter back into the soil and also grow delicious Vitamin D filled culinary mushrooms! These basic techniques require no special equipment or electricity, and can all be done outdoors using organic materials found on most farms and gardens. Let’s build healthy soil together! 

What to Bring: 

Bring your own bucket. 5 gallon containers: planter pot, bucket, laundry basket, milk crate, or crate for vegetables, wire mesh container like a bird house, strawberry pot.  Any container with holes in it will work. Do not buy anything new, there are many ways to recycle and use these materials.

This workshop is great for beginners and advanced farmers and gardeners. You will walk away with the knowledge of:

1. Basic biology terms and understanding of types of fungi as it relates to plants.

2. Benefits of fungi to the soil web and our larger ecosystem

3. How to use spent mushroom substrate (SMS) in your compost

4. How to use SMS and grow mushrooms in the garden alongside your vegetables and perennials

5. How to use SMS and grow mushrooms in containers (Hands-on)

6. How to source SMS at a very low-cost