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 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 the bag method(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.

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Level 3: Intermediate | How to Grow Exotic &Medicinal Mushrooms (attendance workshop)

You will learn about Exotic & Medicinal mushrooms and how to grow them yourself. 

Once you have made up your own bag and learnt how to add the mushroom spawn, you then take it home and look after it. In a short while, you will have mushrooms growing from your new grow bag.

DISCONTINUED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

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

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