Mushrooms & Mums on May 8th

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Date: Sunday, May 8th

Time: 12 - 3 p.m.

Location: Tillery Street Plant Company

Cost: Sliding Scale Donation Starting at $10 (Kids under 12 are always free.)

Join us on Mother’s Day for a Mushroom Gardening Workshop at Tillery Street Plant Company. This outdoor, family friendly event will have all types of hands-on mushroom growing experiences. Learn how to grow mushrooms in your garden, with your perennials, with your worms, and even on your porch in a container. Not only will you be learning to grow mushrooms, build healthy soil, sequester carbon, feed the soil web, your plants and eventually you! You will also be helping divert organic matter from the waste stream! Mother earth will love you.

Donation:

Date: Sunday, May 8th

Time: 12 - 3 p.m.

Location: Tillery Street Plant Company

Cost: Sliding Scale Donation Starting at $10 (Kids under 12 are always free.)

Join us on Mother’s Day for a Mushroom Gardening Workshop at Tillery Street Plant Company. This outdoor, family friendly event will have all types of hands-on mushroom growing experiences. Learn how to grow mushrooms in your garden, with your perennials, with your worms, and even on your porch in a container. Not only will you be learning to grow mushrooms, build healthy soil, sequester carbon, feed the soil web, your plants and eventually you! You will also be helping divert organic matter from the waste stream! Mother earth will love you.

BYOB: Bring your own bucket or 5 gallon or less size. Examples include planter pot, bucket, laundry basket, milk crate, or crate for vegetable, wooden crate.  Any container with holes in it will work. Do not buy anything new, there are many ways to recycle and use these materials. If your container doesn’t have holes in the side, use a power drive with a 1“ bit and drill holes in a diamond pattern 4” apart on the sides of the bucket. DO NOT drill holes on the bottom.

OPTIONAL: Purchase a flower, vegetables at the store plant with your mushrooms. 

MATERIALS PROVIDED

  • Substrate / Straw and Compost 

  • Oyster Mushroom Spawn 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:

Cecilia Hogan is a mom of two kids, a few fur and feathered ones, and one mushroom bucket. She is a social worker facilitating prenatal support groups for incarcerated pregnant clients at the Travis County jail through Giving Austin Labor Support. She also provides doula services to Portuguese speaking clients. And she is part of Friends of Grand Meadow Park working towards building a community garden and food forest in southeast Austin!

Angel Schatz radiates passion for understanding the ecosystem of central Texas and making gardening with mushrooms accessible to anyone who shares interest. Not only is she part of the leadership team of the Central Texas Mycological Society, but Austin Organic Gardeners as well; harmonizing vegetable gardening and mushroom growing, particularly by using recycled mushroom blocks.