Take a journey into the amazing fungi kingdom and learn how certain fungi and mushrooms can benefit your garden, health and the planet. In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn easy mushroom cultivation methods you can do at home to grow food, medicine and bring vitality to your garden.

• Fungi and Mushroom Basics (history, function, and uses)
• Myco restoration
• Wild Foraging
• Mushrooms as Medicine
• Cultivation (inoculation of varied media from Oyster mushrooms in coco coir, grain, coffee grounds, and woodchips, to shiitake in logs)

Instructor: Matthew Trumm, Owner of Treetop Permaculture

Price: $30 (plus $10 materials fee, payable to the instructor in class for those who want to take home their own mushroom growing kit)

Location: American River Ranch in the Schoolhouse and Patio, 2140 Chase Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

Register through the Co-op >>