Grow Your Own Mushrooms Workshop

Wenatchee River Institute Presents-Learn how to grow your own mushrooms on logs, in containers, and in garden beds at this interactive workshop.

Our instructor, Seth Beu, has years of experience growing mushrooms for restaurants with his business Primordia Farms. He’s spent countless hours hanging out with various fungi in the forests and instructing workshops just like this one. Seth will bring this knowledge, and knowledge gained form Dr. Elaine Ingham’s intensive Soil Food Web & Microscope course, to instructing you on growing your own edible mushrooms.

This course will cover several topics such as:
– 3 different ways to grow mushrooms from start to finish
– Integrating mushrooms into the garden space
– Different growing substrates and field capacity
– How to clone fungi you find in the forest
– How to pasteurize, sterilize, and avoid contamination
– How to make a blue oyster mushroom and/or winecap mushroom kit to take home
– What to do with your grow kit afterwards

All supplies will be provided. If you prefer, you can bring your own reusable container like a large, sterilized mason jar or lidded plastic container for your grow kit(s).

This event will take place inside the Red Barn, a heated building. There is a wheelchair accessible path and bathrooms onsite.