🎤 Instructor: Dewayne Goss
🗓️ Date: Saturday, July 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
📍 Location: San Antonio Botanical Garden
🎟️ Cost: $25 ($20 member)
YOUR MISSION BRIEFING: WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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:
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. Learn what you need to grow both wood loving and dung-loving fungus.
MASTER BASIC INOCULATION PROTOCOLS: We’ll walk step-by-step through how grain spawn and liquid culture work, Austin will demo turning plastic totes into still air boxes and monotubs using heated metal rings, creating smooth holes using a charcoal chimney 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.
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.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Dewayne has been cultivating mushrooms since 2018, when a simple oyster spray-and-grow kit sparked a lasting fascination with fungi. Nearly eight years later, he enjoys sharing that knowledge as a volunteer educator, teaching others how to cultivate gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. He also runs a small culture business focused on warm-weather species. His favorite mushroom is Lion’s Mane.
The Spore Corps awaits. Inoculate. Cultivate. Liberate. Sign-up for a membership to get discounts on workshops, walks, and mycology related events.
