Mushroom Inoculation Workshop
Grow and harvest your own mushrooms at home for years to come!
Audience: Adults, Teens
Duration: 2 hours
Level: Beginner & beyond
Want to learn how to inoculate logs and grow your own mushrooms at home? Adding mushroom logs is a great way to add a harvest to a shady area in any permaculture design and this time of year is ideal to inoculate mushrooms! Cool, wet conditions of fall are ideal for mycelial growth, plus starting logs before winter extends incubation time and gives them the opportunity to fruit sooner. The class will involve a discussion about all the stages of the process, the different tools and techniques that can be used, and the list of mushrooms that are well suited for this process. The big fun begins with a hands on opportunity to inoculate your own log that you can then take home to harvest the following year!
We also will have additional logs available for $35 each and the remainder of our plants will be available for sale.
Mushroom Inoculation Workshop
$35 per person
$60 for two people
October 25, 11:00am – 1:00pm
James (Jim) Matalik
Jim joined Bending Oak in the fall of 2019 and became the Farm Manager in Spring of 2020. He is responsible for the continuing development of the 25-acre educational farm including the off grid infrastructure, fruit & nut orchards, food forest development, hoop house plant propagation and visitor facilities. Jim has extensive training in permaculture including the Permaculture Design Course with Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture, Advanced Permaculture Design with Peter Bane, and Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard. Jim is a trained and certified Arborist and has over 20 years’ experience in landscape design and operations with a primary focus on habitat restoration using native plants and trees.
Jim holds an undergraduate degree in sculpture from Kent State University and has extensive experience working with different mediums including metal, wood and clay and has a love for architecture . He grew up in rural Pennsylvania which was the catalyst for his love of the natural world. Jim plays guitar and lives in Kent, Ohio with his partner Melissa where they cultivate permaculture principles in their backyard homestead with a variety of small animals and two very loud human children- Olivia and Hayden.