Afternoon Workshop:
Log Plugging
2024 Dates TBD
Growing Mushrooms on Logs
Many mushroom species love to grow on trees naturally. The easiest way to simulate this natural relationship is to inoculate cut logs with mushroom spawn.
This is a low-tech, no waste, regenerative way to grow mushrooms and easy enough to do at home.
What you get
Access to Chris’s 35 years of experience growing and working with mushrooms
Initial understanding of how mushrooms grow
Overview of how mycelium creates fruiting bodies
Learn how to select optimal logs
Learn which woods suit which mushroom species
Hands-on demonstration of how to plug logs
Hand-on practice plugging a log
Take home a log you have plugged ($25- 30 retail value)
Decades of Experience
Chris Parker has been growing various kinds of mushrooms for 30 years. He created the Southeast’s premier resource for mushroom cultivation supplies - Asheville Fungi.
Chris is also deeply experienced in permaculture, organic gardening, regenerative agriculture and herbal medicine. He has gained all this knowledge from his ancestors, local teachers and through his own study.
During this afternoon workshop Chris combines practical demonstrations, hands-on experiential learning, presentations and is available to answer questions about your specific growing situation.
Log plugging session at Backyard Mushrooms Weekend Campout
Join us for the afternoon on our 30 acre forest farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains