About this Event
Are you ready to take your mushroom cultivation skills to the next level?
Curious about advanced techniques to enhance your mushroom yields?
Come and expand your mushroom cultivation knowledge and learn new growing techniques in this full day course designed for people who already knows the basics. It is perfect for anyone who has attended any of Darren’s previous Shroomshops for Beginners.
If you haven't attended one of his beginners courses you can still join in. Darren will include mushroom theory in this course, and teaching via a hands-on experience covering:
- Making your own spore prints
- Making your own spore syringes
- Making your own mycelium spawn
- Working with grain and wood substrates
- How to increase your yields
- How to make liquid mycelium
- Experimenting with various bulk growing techniques
We will also revisit but go deeper with some of the basics of mushroom cultivation, to reinforce previous lessons taught and address some of the challenges you may have faced so far. Participants only need to bring a pen and pad.
All training materials will be provided. Participants will leave with the resources needed to continue growing at home.
Darren in action (above) leading the workshop.
About your facilitator:
Darren Le Baron is an educator, mycologist and psychedelic researcher specialising in mushroom cultivation, ethnomycology and the cultural history of fungi. Based between the UK and the Caribbean, Darren has over 13 years’ experience cultivating gourmet and medicinal mushrooms and is widely known for his Shroomshop Masterclasses and accessible, hands-on mushroom education.
In 2021, he launched the UK’s first accredited Mycology and Mushroom Cultivation course for schools and young people, using fungi as a powerful tool for practical learning, creativity and community development.
Darren is a dynamic international speaker and researcher, exploring the relationships between fungi, psychedelics, ancient cultures and traditional plant medicines, with a particular focus on African ethnobotanical and fungal traditions. He is a member and presenter with the London Psychedelic Society, Chair and committee member of Breaking Convention, and has presented at events and festivals including the Detroit Psychedelic Conference, All Things Fungi, Ozora, Noisily and Lightning in a Bottle.
Alongside his work with fungi, Darren is an Organic Horticulturist and Permaculture tutor, supporting schools, businesses and communities to develop practical, sustainable growing systems.
Through his workshops and research, Darren brings together science, cultivation, culture and lived experience, making the fascinating world of fungi accessible to everyone—from complete beginners to experienced growers
Agenda
🕑: 11:15 AM
Doors Open
🕑: 11:30 AM
Workshop Starts
Event venue & nearby stays
Haggerston Community Centre, 8 Lovelace Street, London, United Kingdom
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