Welcome to Mushroom Club
Taught on a small commercial mushroom farm (Mr. Mercy’s Mushrooms in Kaslo), participants will learn the skills to get confident and creative with growing projects of their own.

With topics including sterile lab technique, log cultivation, fungal gardening, mushroom cookery and medicine making, and identifying and working with wild mushrooms, this experience offers a solid and diverse foundation of skills for anyone interested in deepening their working relationship with fungi.

The Six Sessions of Mushroom Club

Mushroom Club happens in six full-day installments, on the 4th Friday of each month from April through September.

1) April 26 | In the Lab
Basics of mushroom biology and strategies for fruiting. Overview of sterile technique, with practice creating mushroom spawn. Discussion of participants’ aims for the program.

2) May 24 | In the Backyard
‍Log inoculation session and how to create your own spawn. Forest walk with discussion of tree types and in-depth analysis of pairing opportunities with mushrooms.

3) June 28 | In the Garden
‍Creating a garden space using fungi. Making King Stropharia beds, and a look at secondary decomposers. Discussion of endomycorrhizae.

4) July 26 | In the Kitchen
Culinary and medicinal uses of various mushrooms. A look at medicine making, drying and preserving, plus a cooking and tasting event featuring a mushroom BBQ.

5) August 30* | In the Greenhouse
‍Considerations for small commercial farming. Strain selection for different temperature ranges, making substrate, and uses for waste streams. Harvesting, packing, and storing mushrooms.

*This class happens on the last, not the 4th Friday of the month.

6) September 27 | In the Wild
‍A full-day wild mushroom foray, where we’ll talk about mycorrhizae and forest health, collecting for personal and commercial use, mushroom identification, and assessing wild strains for cultivation potential (back to the lab!).

A Message From Your Club Leader

Hi Mushroom Lovers!

After two great years of running Mushroom Club sessions and getting to meet and work with so many of you, I’ve decided to change the scope of our education offerings here at Mr. Mercy’s in order to reach and serve more of you, and help you achieve your specific fungal goals.

With that in mind, we won’t be running the usual Mushroom Club program in 2025, instead, I will be offering personalized consultation services, both in-person and virtually, to help you grow the way you want to. Please get in touch if you’ve got an idea you want to make real!

Also, there are a few other new top-secret offerings under development. They will include a few new ways to grow, and all come under the heading of a new project called “The Mushroom Gardener”.

Thank you for your support. More details coming soon!

Membership Access

6 full days for just $600‍

This works out to $15 per hour of teaching time, and also includes the awesome bonuses listed below.

Bonuses for club members

Expert guest speakers
‍There will be at least two special guest speakers during the course of the program. Details to come, but you’ll love them.

Free mushrooms
‍What would an immersive mushroom growing program be without a few mushrooms thrown in? We grow over 15 strains, and there will be ample opportunities for sampling.

Free lab time
Access to the lab space at Mr. Mercy’s for working on any personal projects in a sterile and professional workspace. (This is a busy commercial working environment on our home property, so time restrictions will apply.)

Free spawn
‍Each student will receive a mix of their choice of 5 units of spawn (petri dishes, dowels, sawdust spawn, etc.) over the duration of the course, to get growing at home. A $100 value.

Sign up now and grab one of only 10 available spots

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