Learn how to inoculate logs with plug spawn! Participants will help in drilling, plugging, and sealing logs with the appropriate species of mushroom plug spawn, and learn techniques for caring for the logs to promote maximum mushroom fruiting. Participants will go home with an inoculated log that has the potential to fruit a few times a year for several years to come. Growing mushrooms on logs is a great way to utilize shady spots on your property, and a great way to decompose wood while obtaining a yield of delicious culinary mushrooms.  

Taught by Jesse Stacken, One Nature Garden Coach

Jesse believes that with just a little effort on our part, we can turn our neighborhoods from places of consumption to places of production. His long-held interest in gardening, personal and societal wellness, and food sovereignty led him to complete the Visionary Permaculture Design Certificate course at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Wappinger, NY in 2018. His personal garden features a chicken-driven composting system, more 600 gallons of rain water collection, more than 15 types of fruit, several perennial vegetables, over a dozen medicinal herbs, dozens of pollinator plants, and extensive annual vegetables all working together in a resilient, cooperative system that requires less and less outside inputs as it matures.

REGISTRATION
$35 per person (includes all materials and tools to create your own inoculated log to take home)

Space is limited and registration is required. Workshop is held outdoors, so please dress accordingly.