In this informative and hands-on class, Patrick Hanners will review the history of mushroom cultivation along with the basic terminology and biology of mushrooms. Students will learn about growing mushrooms utilizing wood as a substrate including the methods used to inoculate logs. This will include utilizing ‘drill and fill’, totem and the spawn disk methods. Patrick will touch on renewable forest resources, tree utilization, sourcing, and selection as well as site selection factors, log stacking, harvesting and secondary products. Each student will receive and inoculate one log of oyster mushroom and one log of shiitake mushroom.
Patrick Hanners graduated from the university of MD and did
graduate studies at both the University of MD and the University of CA,
Berkeley. During his career as an analytical chemist, he worked at the
USDA’s Mushroom Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD as well as the
USDA Research facility in Albany, CA. Patrick has 50 years of
experience cultivating mushrooms and is a member of the Forest Mushroom
Growers Association.
1. Class hours: 1:00 pm to 3 pm.
2. The maximum number of students for the class will be 15.
3. The fee for this class is $40.
4. Class will be held in the Tavern Meeting Building, directly behind the Tavern
