Name: Grow Your Own Shiitake Mushrooms (In-Person)
Start: 2024-08-08T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-08T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Lucile Tatum Homemakers Center

Grow Your Own Shiitake Mushrooms (In-Person)

Learn the basics of shiitake mushroom backyard cultivation including varieties, equipment needed, inoculation/care of logs, and harvesting.
About this Event

Interested in learning how to grow your own shiitake mushrooms? If so, this workshop is for you!

This workshop presented by NC Cooperative Extension - Gaston County Center will provide an overview of how to get started with growing your own shiitake mushrooms:

mushroom varieties
equipment needed
how to inoculate logs
maintaining logs
harvesting mushrooms

Instructor - Lara Worden, Agriculture Agent:

Worden is the Agriculture Agent with NC Cooperative Extension and serves the Gaston County Center. Her work supports local agriculture and growers (such as hay and beef producers), local food entrepreneurs, and small acreage development. Worden has been serving the residents of Gaston County for almost 20 years and is passionate about homesteading, raising backyard chickens, and working with local growers.