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

Mushroom Workshops, Courses and Training

Level 1: Easy

​- How to Grow Shiitake 
​Mushrooms on logs (DIY)

​This introductory 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 download. 

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Level 2: Intermediate

​-How to Grow Oyster 
​Mushrooms (DIY)

​This beginners 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.

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Level 2: Intermediate

​-How to Grow mushrooms, bag method sterilisation (DIY)

This intermediate course will specifically teach you how to sterilise a combined straw & wood substrate and inoculate it with Shiitake, Reishi or Lions Mane  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 sterilise a combined substrate
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​This course will be in the form of a PAID eBook. Once you've ordered and paid you will receive an email with the eBook and be able to view the videos on our website. Watch this space!

Coming Soon

Note: We have discontinued the on-site Introduction Mushroom Workshop until further notice.

We are therefore offering the workshop training manual and access to the videos on our website, for qualifying orders. Now you can learn from the comfort of your own home! For this option we are giving away the training manual (pdf file via email) to those who place an order and pay via web SHOP.

​To qualify, the order is to include the following items: 2kg’s of Oyster spawn (excl. King Oyster), 1.5kg’s of hydrated lime, 1kg of gypsum and 10 meters of 330mm tubing, 1x15 gauge needle and 500ml of cleaning alcohol=total including shipping R590***

Level 2: Intermediate-How to Grow Exotic &Medicinal Mushrooms (attendance)

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.

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Level 3:

Advanced Fungi Culturing Course (attendance)

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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