🧑🏫 Instructor: Dewayne
🗓️ Date: Sunday, February 1, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Gardopia Gardens
🎟️ Cost: $35+ (Members get a 30% discount, Only 15 seats!)
Let’s grow culinary mushrooms! In this immersive in-person session, you’ll receive the foundational skills to begin your journey as a Spore Corps Cadet. This class is hands-on, high-vibe, and capped at eight participants to keep the experience intimate and interactive. You will learn to:
DECODE THE MYCELIAL NETWORK: Understand the basic science and folk wisdom of fungi—how mycelium communicates, adapts, and thrives as a decentralized system much like our own community.
MASTER BASIC INOCULATION PROTOCOLS: We’ll walk step-by-step through how grain spawn and liquid culture work, equipping you with the tools to successfully cultivate mushrooms at home.
IDENTIFY THE KEY STAGES OF THE FRUITING BODY LIFECYCLE: Learn to recognize healthy colonization, contamination risks, and when your mushrooms are ready to fruit. This is where patience meets soft rebellion.
ENGAGE IN COMMUNITY INTELLIGENCE: Experience how Spore Corps operates as a network of growers, sharing resources, knowledge, and support to ensure collective success.
WHAT YOU’LL TAKE HOME
Every participant will leave with everything they need to begin their first home grow:
1 sterilized grain bag
1 mushroom liquid culture syringe
Instructions and guidance covered during the session
A deeper understanding of the fungal world and how you can cultivate it yourself
This workshop is designed so you can begin your journey the same day you attend.
The environment is welcoming, beginner-friendly, and intentionally crafted to help you feel supported as you take your first steps into mushroom cultivation.
IS THIS BRIEFING FOR YOU?
This session is designed for:
DIY mycologists and food security advocates ready to weaponize their knowledge.
Gardeners, artists, and educators seeking new, inclusive tools for engagement.
Anyone feeling the call to join the fruiting body of the resistance and decompose the status quo.
The Spore Corps awaits. Inoculate. Cultivate. Liberate. Sign-up for a membership to get discounts on workshops, walks, and mycology related events.
