Fall Mushroom Workshops and Happenings

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Sept 24th, 7-9:30pm: Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms @ Fernwood Community Centre, 1240 Gladstone Aave.

November 8th: Mushroom Open House @ Victoria Compost Education Centre;

10am: Mushroom Companions in Your Garden and Farm (free)

2pm: Grow Your Own Mushrooms at Home ($20)

November 16th: Myco-Permaculture with Hatchet & Seed Edible Landscaping @ University of Victoria Campus Community Garden

December TBD: Medicinal Mushrooms with Jenny McCartney of DeepRoots Herbal Medicine

January 24-25th (2015): Mushroom Cultivation with Peter McCoy

Study Finds Mycorhizal Fungi Responsible for Most Carbon Sequestration

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Scientists have known for quite some time that northern forests sequester a lot of carbon—they pull in carbon dioxide after all, and “breath” out oxygen. But what the trees actually do with the carbon has been a matter of debate—most have suggested that it’s likely carried to needles and leaves then eventually drops to the forest floor where over time decomposition causes it to leech into the soil.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-fungi-responsible-carbon-sequestration-northern.html#jCp

Scientists have known for quite some time that northern forests sequester a lot of carbon—they pull in carbon dioxide after all, and “breath” out oxygen. But what the trees actually do with the carbon has been a matter of debate—most have suggested that it’s likely carried to needles and leaves then eventually drops to the forest floor where over time decomposition causes it to leech into the soil.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-fungi-responsible-carbon-sequestration-northern.html#jCp

Scientists have known for quite some time that northern forests sequester a lot of carbon—they pull in carbon dioxide after all, and “breath” out oxygen. But what the trees actually do with the carbon has been a matter of debate—most have suggested that it’s likely carried to needles and leaves then eventually drops to the forest floor where over time decomposition causes it to leech into the soil.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-fungi-responsible-carbon-sequestration-northern.html#jCp

Reason #7,000,999,000,133 not to cut down the forest:

Folks have long known that northern forests sequester a lot of carbon- they ‘pull’ in carbon and ‘breathe’ out oxygen. This study, done in Sweden, finds that how that works is through the trees sending the carbon down to their roots, via sugars, where the sugars are eaten by fungi connected to the trees roots (in exchange for nutrients, water, and much more) and the carbon residue is expelled into the soil.

Read more: Fungi Responsible for Carbon Sequestration

Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms!

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Workshop Monday, June 30th from 6-8pm 

This workshop will offer oyster bucketan introduction to the amazing world of mushrooms and cover everything you need to know to grow your own mushrooms where you live. We’ll each inoculate a 5 gallon bucket of oyster mushrooms to take home-like in the picture!

Learning to grow mushrooms is a great way to grow your own food and medicine! Oyster mushrooms are a good source of protein, B vitamins, Vitamin D, iron and minerals, and have been shown to lower cholesterol and inhibit cancers.

This is an introductory workshop, total beginners welcome. Future workshops will go more in depth and include Growing Medicinal Mushrooms, Mycoremediation (healing land and water with fungi), and Mushrooms in the Garden.

Cost: $20-30
The workshop includes all the materials and spawn (pre-grown mycelium) you’ll need.

If you can’t afford the course fee, please contact me as I’d love for you to join us. No one will be turned away for lack of funds and there are also work trade opportunities. Kids are welcome and free!

Heads up the bucket may be hard to carry on a bike 🙂

Please register so I know how many materials to bring. Register with me at daniellestevenson@gmail.com or (250) 891-4927, or through personal message on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/642717772478673/ Space is limited!

Acknowledgment and gratitude to Fernwood NRG for supporting this event with their space!