Upcoming Classes
Join us on the farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains (NC)
In-person classes fall 2025
The Only In-Depth, Hands-On, Sterile Lab Training in the Southeast
You will learn:
Christopher Parker
Katherine Parker PhD
Learn how mushrooms can boost your income, restore your land, and fit right into your regenerative vision.
Grow something that grows you back
Grapevine Road
Marshall, NC, USA
Cherokee Homeland
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These in-person classes are small, intensive and highly practical, givein you the change to work directly with us on the farm in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
And because we want your learning to continue long after you leave, every attendee will receive an exclusive discount to join our online programs, where you will get ongoing coaching and community support.
✱ Mushroom Sterile Lab Technique: Sunday September 28th, 2025
✱ Mushroom Growing for Beginners: Saturday October 18th, 2025
✱ Mushroom Log Plugging: Sunday November 9th, 2025
Sterile lab techniques are essential for any serious mushroom grower - nowhere else will you find this intensive, in-person coaching.
You will learn:
✱ How to set up a low-cost sterile lab at home
✱ How to make your own cultures from spores and mushroom tissue
✱ How to minimize contamination for a successful mushroom operation
This class is designed for:
✱ Intermediate growers ready to take their skills to the next level
✱ Farmers and entrepreneurs adding mushroom products to their business
✱ Beginners who want to start with a strong technical foundation
You will gain the confidence to work consistently and independently during this day-long class.
We keep the class small to ensure you get direct, hands-on, instruction in the lab.
If you have been curious about growing mushrooms but not sure where to start - this is the one-day workshop for you.
You'll learn core low-tech, outdoor mushroom cultivation methods that we teach in our 3-month online beginners course - distilled into a practical, accessible day on the farm.
You will learn:
✱ How mushrooms grow and regenerate the forest
✱ How to inoculate logs and make totems
✱ How to make your own cardboard spawn
✱ How to grow mushrooms on straw
✱ How to make woodchip beds
You'll will go home with:
✱ Cardboard spawn to grow out mycelium
✱ A straw bag inoculated with Oyster mushrooms
✱ A log inoculated with Shiitake mushrooms
✱ Woodchips to start your own Wine Cap bed
✱ The unique relationship fungi has with wood
✱ Which species grow on which types of wood
✱ How to select or cut optimal logs
✱ Hands-on how to plug logs
✱ How to make mushroom totems
You'll take home a log you have plugged so it can fruit at home.
Christopher Parker (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) — Farmer and educator, specializing in Indigenous regenerative agriculture. Chris has been cultivating mushrooms for over 30 years, maintains a diverse culture library of fungal strains highly adapted to the Southern Appalachians and teach online and in-person.
Katherine Parker PhD — Eco-psychologist, educator, storyteller, and co-author of The Mycelial Healer. Expert in applied eco-mycology and myco-regeneration.