Join us in-person on Mushroom Monday at Stargazer Cocktails & Coffee to learn how to grow culinary and specialty mushrooms. Go home with the knowledge and kit to get started! Mushroom cocktails, mocktails, vendors & more.
🎤 Instructor: Austin Davenport
🗓️ Date: Monday, June 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 p.m. (Happy Hour from 4:00 - 10:00 p.m.)
📍 Location: Stargazer Cocktails & Coffee in East Austin
🎟️ Cost: $35+ (Members get a 30% discount)
🎤 Instructor: Austin Davenport
🗓️ Date: Monday, June 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 p.m. (Happy Hour from 4:00 - 10:00 p.m.)
📍 Location: Stargazer Cocktails & Coffee in East Austin
🎟️ Cost: $35+ (Members get a 30% discount)
Members get a 30% discount. Everyone gets discount codes from North Spore & Local Suppliers
YOUR MISSION BRIEFING: WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Get ready to get up to speed with home mycology! 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 15 participants to keep the experience intimate and interactive. You will learn to:
LEARN THE LINGO AND PROCESS: Learn what you need to grow both wood loving and dung-loving fungus. We’ll review all the vocabulary, growing process, and creating a lab & why its important.
MASTER BASIC INOCULATION PROTOCOLS: We’ll walk step-by-step through how grain spawn and liquid culture work, Austin will demonstrate the process with inoculating with liquid cultures and transferring colonized grain into final substrate.
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 GET
Every participant will leave with everything they need to begin their first home grow:
1 sterilized bag of CVG
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.
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.
