Growing Exotic and Medicinal mushrooms has fast become the new "Sexy" in the mushroom industry.

Mushroom DIY, Courses and Training

Level 1: Easy

​How to Grow Shiitake 
​Mushrooms on a log using dowels (DIY)

​This beginners course will specifically teach you how to inoculate a wood substrate (log) with Shiitake or Reishi dowels that you have purchased. It will start off with only the most important theory that you need to know, then move over to the three EASY steps on how to inoculate a log.

This course is in the form of a FREE eBook, which will be sent to you via a download link from the online shop, on receipt of your payment for dowel spawn. The eBook is a pdf so that you can learn from the comfort of your own home. For this option you will need to place an order via the SHOP.

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Level 2: Introductory

​How to Grow Oyster 
​Mushrooms on straw using Hydrated Lime (DIY)

​This introductory course will specifically teach you how to cold sterilise a straw only substrate and inoculate it with Oyster grain spawn (mushroom spawn) that you have purchased. It will start off with only the most important theory that you need to know, then move over to the video demonstrations: 
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1. how to soak straw in Calcium hydroxide
2. how to pack a mushroom grow bag.

This course is in the form of a FREE eBook, which will be sent to you via a download link from the online shop, on receipt of your payment for Oyster spawn. The eBook is a pdf and will provide access to the videos on our website via URL links, so that you can learn from the comfort of your own home. For this option you will need to place an order via the SHOP.

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Level 3: Intermediate

​How to Grow wood loving Mushrooms on a combined substrate using bags (DIY)

​This intermediate course will specifically teach you how to sterilise a combined straw & wood substrate and inoculate it with Shiitake, Reishi, Turkey Tail, Lions Mane or King Oyster  grain spawn (mushroom spawn) that you have purchased. It will start off with only the most important theory that you need to know, then move over to the video demonstrations: 
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1. how to soak a combined substrate
2. how to pasteurise a combined substrate
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​This course (once available) will be in the form of a FREE eBook, which will be sent to you via a download link from the online shop, on receipt of your payment for wood loving spawn types. The eBook will be in a pdf and will provide access to the videos on our website via URL links, so that you can learn from the comfort of your own home. For this option you will need to place an order via the SHOP.

Coming 2022

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Level 4: Advanced Fungi Culturing Course (attendance course)

This Advanced Fungi Culturing Course is not for the faint-hearted, yet it is for the highly passionate!

This is our biggest course offering to date. You will learn everything you need to know, from:

• making nutrient agar for petri dishes
• taking a mushroom sample and cloning it on a petri dish
• isolating good mycelium from "bad" contaminations
• making master spawn and how to multiply it to save you money
• making your own mushroom grow bags
• tips and tricks about harvesting

All this while learning how to do so WITHOUT ​a Laminar Flow Hood. Its a BIG one!

​"The value of this course is not only in the skill and knowledge imparted, but also the tips and tricks learnt over 26 years of mastery," Craig Fourie

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Level 1 to 4: Online Learning Centre | NEW!!!!!!

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In the NEW Online Learning Centre you can take courses, to learn various mushroom cultivation techniques at your own pace and convenient time.

The first 3 courses that will be on offer are :

• Agar Training : learn to make nutrient agar for petri dishes
• Spore Print & Mycelium Transfers : learn how to do various transfers (spore prints, agar & grain transfers)
• Spawn Making : learn how to make you own grain spawn

We will be loading more courses in the new future, which will cover: 

• ​​taking a mushroom sample and cloning it on a petri dish
• isolating good mycelium from "bad" contaminations
• ​making your own mushroom grow bags or trays
• ​building a terrarium and  managing environmental conditions
• tips and tricks about harvesting​ ​

COMING 2022