Growing shiitake mushrooms on birch logs

This class is part of the season-spanning series “Growing Your Own Food: Beyond the Basics,” a follow-up to our extremely popular primer to “Growing Your Own Food” offered in 2011. The classes are designed to take your gardening endeavors to the next level, offering special topics such as elegant kitchen garden design, cultivating and preparing edible flowers, growing shiitake mushrooms, selecting heirloom varieties, and saving seeds. For an overview of the entire series, click here.

Class Description: Growing Shiitake Mushrooms at Home with David Dow

Growing shiitake mushrooms is a fun, healthy, and very tasty endeavor! Just ask David Dow, who’s been cultivating, cooking, and sharing shiitake mushrooms from his backyard farm in New Brunswick, Canada, for nearly ten years. Shiitake mushrooms, best known for their rich flavor and immunity-boosting properties, can be grown at home with a few soaked birch logs and some spores. David will present the basic techniques and supplies, provide practical advice for cultivation, and even share methods for preserving and cooking.

David Dow, EdD, of Red Roof Farm in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, is a long-time educator and a garden, mushroom and food preservation enthusiast. Former executive director of the Maine Lobster Institute, he is now the tribal planner for the Aroostook Band of MicMacs. His increasingly popular shiitake-growing workshops have been presented at the Falls Brook Centre for sustainable community demonstration and training and other venues in Canada.

Where: Bosarge Family Education Center
Price: $30 members, $37  non-members (pre-registration required)

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