For our TREPA home grown food or just plain mushroom lover there is a “Know and Grow Mushrooms” workshop coming up on May 13-15 at the Harrison Lewis Centre on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.
It will be an exceptional weekend with an outstanding team of instructors lined up leading off with Dr. David Boyle, accompanied by Catherine Pross, Dr. Richard McBride, and Andy Radin. They know their stuff and have a passion for teaching.
The “Know and Grow Mushrooms” workshop gets underway at 7 pm Friday evening. Join David Boyle for a discussion of the role of mushrooms in nature, industry, and medicine – over a cup of Chaga tea if you like.
Saturday, an introduction to mushroom taxonomy – hands-on identification using keys, guides, and spore prints. In the afternoon a field and forest walk to Sandy Bay beach collecting mushrooms and samples of soil mycorrhizae and dead wood fungi to examine under microscopes back in the lab.
Sunday’s focus is growing mushrooms including shiitake and oyster on logs, straw, sawdust, and even on waste paper. Participants leave with their own inoculated hardwood log promising a future feed.
Fees and registration: Tuition, $165. Meals (five home-cooked meals plus snacks) $50. Cabin bunk $40 (tenting $20). (Note: Overnight accommodation is available at White Point Beach Resort, 30 minutes from HLC. Phone 888-565-5068.[www.whitepoint.com])
A $50 deposit is requested with registration. Mail cheque or MO made out to the Harrison Lewis Centre to the Centre at RR 1 Port Joli, NS B0T 1S0. (Please, when registering identify any dietary restrictions.) For more information phone 902 683-2763 or contact Natalie Smith, Hilltop Cottage Farm, RR1 PO Box 60, Glenwood, NS, BOW 1W0 (902) 643-2002. natalie@yffb.ca