How It Works
Become a Certified Regenerative Mushroom Farmer.
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Become a Certified Regenerative Mushroom Farmer
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Quarter 1: From Spore to Harvest
Quarter 2: Sawdust Spawn & Grow Kit Production
Set up your grow infrastructure. Learn to sterilize and inoculate sawdust bags, build your own flow hood, and prepare to launch a small-scale mushroom product line.
Quarter 3: Medicinal Markets & Grain Spawn
Quarter 4: Sterile Lab Techniques, Wild Harvesting & Final Project
Become a Certified Regenerative Mushroom Farmer
We’ll walk with you, from spore to harvest—and far beyond.
Grow something that grows you back
Grapevine Road
Marshall, NC, USA
Cherokee Homeland
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For many, mushroom cultivation becomes more than a skill—it becomes a way forward. A path that can weave purpose, income, and regenerative impact into the fabric of daily life.
You might be curious how to align your work with the rhythms of the land.
You may have explored farming, ecology, or herbalism and wondered how to make it part of your livelihood. Or perhaps you’re simply ready to turn away from systems that extract more than they give.
Mushrooms have a way of opening that door.
They offer a path that’s practical, ecological, and deeply meaningful —one that can feed people, heal ecosystems, and restore our sense of belonging.
The Regenerative Mushroom Farming Certification Program is a year-long online training that gives you everything you need to grow and sell gourmet and medicinal mushrooms using regenerative, forest-honoring practices—from low-tech cultivation to sterile lab precision.
Rooted in the soil of our working farm on Cherokee homeland, this program blends Indigenous forest stewardship with modern applied eco-mycology, preparing you for a livelihood that sustains both body and land.
Come learn how to grow mushrooms, and how to shape a business that nourishes communities, restores ecosystems, and helps rebuild our collective food sovereignty.
This is a full-spectrum training in applied eco-mycology—designed to help you grow mushrooms and a mission-driven livelihood from the ground up.
You’ll explore:
✱ Low-tech cultivation for kitchens, gardens, and forest edges
✱ Sawdust spawn, grain spawn, plug spawn, and grow kit production
✱ Building and operating a grow room, spawn room, and sterile lab
✱ Sterilization and lab techniques—including flow hood construction and petri plate work
✱ Cultivating medicinal mushrooms and creating value-added products like extracts and foods
✱ The business side: market research, pricing, product design, and finding your niche
✱ Myco-regeneration: using fungi to heal soil, restore forests, and nourish communities
✱ Reciprocal wild harvesting, spore collection, and fungal ecology
✱ Designing and completing a Final Project that showcases your skills and contribution while getting your business started
This is a 12-month online, hands-on, course designed for real life, with a balance of structure, support, and flexibility.
You’ll receive:
✱ Video lessons filmed on our working mushroom farm
✱ Weekly live coaching calls with our lead mentors
✱ Mobile app to take your learning outside
✱ Cultivation kits shipped throughout the year (spawn and cultures)
✱ Access to The Mycelial Network - our private online community
✱ A signed copy of "The Mycelial Healer" by Christopher and Katherine Parker
✱ Optional in-person immersion days (space is limited)
Your learning will be guided by a team rooted in Indigenous regenerative practice, eco-psychology, and applied mycology—and you’ll join a growing movement of people doing this work across the world.
Our 3-month beginner course grounds you in core skills—spores, growing mycelium, cardboard spawn, liquid culture, forest restoration, and fruiting mushrooms on wood, straw, and other substrates.
Explore high-demand mushroom species and how to grow them. Step up your skills to make your own grain spawn. Learn double extractions, drying and storage, and how to turn your harvest into tinctures, capsules and more.
Deepen into lab skills: petri plates, slants, cloning, and isolation techniques. Start your own culture library. Develop and present your Final Project—a cultivation, education, or restoration initiative in your own ecosystem.
✱ Looking to align your livelihood with land, healing, and ecological intelligence
✱ Wanting to become part of a local resilient food system
✱ Ready to start a side hustle or full-time business in mushroom cultivation
✱ Seeking work that replaces extraction with restoration and reciprocity
✱ Wanting to build infrastructure for long-term abundance
✱ Eager to bring food and medicine to your community—for both income and impact
✱ Hoping to share your knowledge as part of a growing network of culture keepers
✱ Drawn to serving as a mycelial bridge between traditional knowledge and modern needs
We don’t just teach mushroom farming.
We teach how to grow in right relationship—with fungi, forests, and your own purpose.
Unlike other programs that focus only on sterile technique or yield, this certification is grounded in:
✱ Indigenous regenerative agriculture and forest-based wisdom
✱ Applied eco-mycology: fungi as partners in ecological and cultural repair
✱ Myco-regeneration: using fungi to restore soil, water, and ecosystems
✱ Entrepreneurial readiness: from product design to market pathways
✱ Relational learning: mentorship and a network that grows with you
Graduates of the first year can apply for an optional Second-Year Mentorship Track—a deepening journey for those called to teach, facilitate, and become active nodes in a living network of growers, educators, and forest stewards.
Just like the mycelium beneath the forest floor connects trees, plants, and soil life, this network connects people, skills, and stories across regions—so the work you do in your own bioregion strengthens the whole.
This is about becoming a Myco-Culture Keeper - someone who not only cultivates mushrooms, but also carries forward the stories, methods, and values that make this work regenerative for generations to come.
You’ll receive mentorship in facilitation, curriculum design, and ethical leadership so you can bring these teachings to your community in ways that are culturally respectful, ecologically sound, and rooted in place.
By the end of this second year, you’ll be ready to step into your own role as a guide, weaving your part of the mycelial web that is restoring food sovereignty, forest health, and community resilience across many lands.
This is more than a course.
It’s a mycelial lifeline to the future you’ve been imagining.
If you feel ready to grow a regenerative livelihood rooted in fungi, forests, and real community.