Mushroom Cultivation Course
30th September-6th October 2024
Re-Green Eco Culture Center, Seliána, Greece
Mushroom Cultivation Course
30th September-6th October 2024
Re-Green Eco Culture Center, Seliána, Greece
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Join us for a week-long mushroom cultivation workshop at Re-Green Eco Culture Center, located in the mountains of the northern Peloponnese. This course will be led by mushroom enthusiasts, growers and facilitators Nikolaos Gryspolakis, Charitini Paidi and Emily Antoniadi. If you want to learn about fungal ecology and applications, gain holistic skills in working with fungi, and use Permaculture principles and tools to design your mushroom cultivation, this course is for you.
Growing Mushrooms on Olive Trimmings
*See Olive Tree Branches Burning: A major pollution source in the Mediterranean
Themes of the week:
- Intro to Fungi - Ecology, history, human applications and current research
- Lab Setup - equipment, materials, workspaces and skills
- Mushroom Growing rooted in Permaculture - integrating the Ethics, Principles and Tools into everything we do
- Mushroom mycelium and spawn propagation
- Preparing substrates
- Fruiting with the seasons and creating a fruiting chamber
- Indoor and outdoor methods
Extra sessions on request:
- Forest walk for local medicinal and other fungi: focusing on building experience and learning
- Intro to Functional Mushrooms
- Arbuscular Mycorrhiza propagation
- Building fungal-dominant soils
- Culturing local wild mushrooms
This course will be held in English but Greek translation will be available.
Olive tree trimmings (branches and leaves) are abundant in Greece and other mediterranean regions, and are often burnt in the fields after pruning season, contributing to unneccessary emissions and air pollution*. On this course we will learn how to use this material to grow high-quality, nutritious mushrooms.
Εργαστήριο Καλλιέργειας Μανιταριών
30 Σεπτεμβρίου-6 Οκτωβρίου 2024
Κέντρο Αεικαλλιέργειας Re-Green, Σελιάνα, Πελοπόννησο
Καλλιέργεια Μανιταριών σε Κλαδέματα Ελιάς
Το σεμινάριο θα διεξαχθεί στα αγγλικά, αλλά θα υπάρχει διαθέσιμη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά.
-Εισαγωγή στους Μύκητες - Οικολογία, ιστορία, ανθρώπινες εφαρμογές και τρέχουσα έρευνα
-Δημιουργία Εργαστηρίου - εξοπλισμός, υλικά, χώροι εργασίας και δεξιότητες
-Αναπαραγωγή μυκηλίου και σπόρων μανιταριών
-Καρποφορία με τις εποχές και δημιουργία θαλάμου καρποφορίας
-Μέθοδοι εσωτερικού και εξωτερικού χώρου
Επιπλέον διδακτικό υλικό κατόπιν αιτήματος:
-Εισαγωγή στα 'Φαρμακευτικά' Μανιτάρια
Meet
the Facilitators!
Nikolaos Gryspolakis, Free Field
Nikolaos was brought up around nature but aged 19 travelled to study electronic engineering in the urban environments of Glasgow and Montreal. During his PhD in photonic systems he discovered the magical worlds of fungi and permaculture, becoming involved in environmental movements and foraging, cultivating and experimenting with mushrooms for food, soil remediation and regeneration. He has facilitated numerous workshops in Canada, Palestine, South Africa and Greece, and since 2016 he has been designing and planting farms around Greece, including the FreeField (Ελευθεροχώραφο).
Charitini Paidi
Charitini was brought up in Athens and studied Crop Science, specialising in Environmental Science and Plant Health. She made her thesis on monitoring the Mycodiversity in protected areas of West Crete. Lately, she has been working as an assistant in research and in the field as an agronomist, exploring collective organic farming, creating new products for food and medicine. Extremely fascinated by the world of Fungi, she will share her knowledge and experience on practicing small-scale diy cultivation at home and outdoors.
Emily Antoniadi, Mycorama
Emily is a British-Greek strategist and facilitator, fungi grower and founding member of the Doughnut Economics Greece Network. Her project, Mycorama, explores the potential of fungi to support healthy ecosystems, communities and economies, and received the LUSH Spring Prize 2023. Emily has studied and applied Permaculture design practices, mushroom cultivation, and the healing potential of medicinal mushrooms, and designed and co-ran several adult education programmes focused on regenerative economies and practices.
Re-Green Eco Culture Center
Re-Green is a beautiful, abundant Permaculture Farm & Eco Culture Centre in the Ziria mountain range of the Peloponnese (www.re-green.gr).
Re-Green was founded on the principles of working with nature rather than against it; providing a place for experiential learning where people can retreat and discover ways to regenerate both the planet and themselves.
Location: Re-Green Eco Culture Center, Seliána, Greece Arriving at Re-Green
Date: 30th September-6th October 2024
Accommodation options (six days, vegetarian meals included):
Guest house shared room with private bathroom - €390
Contribution for the course:
Standard price €350
Sliding scale: 275€(resilient)-500€(abundant)
The intention for offering a sliding scale is to make this experience more accessible to a wider range of participants. Please self-select your fair share price, knowing that paying more makes this learning possible for a fellow classmate. If this scale is out of your affordability, please contact us.
What’s included?
- Course facilitation and learning materials
- Mushroom cultures to take home
- Shared accommodation in Re-Green’s beautiful guesthouse or camping options
- 3 home made vegetarian meals per day by our chef
- Herbal teas & fruits
- A mushroom foray field trip in the nearby mountains
- Pick up and drop off from Akrata – the nearest beach town
- Use of Re-Green’s facilities, including natural swimming pond on-site, and Temazcal (natural sauna) on request
- A river and waterfall within 15 minutes’ walk.
Registration and Questions:
To apply to participate, please fill in the form via the below link and we will be in touch via email.
Any questions, please email hello.mycorama@gmail.com or eleu8eroxwrafo@gmail.com
Sample Schedule
**Please note: this schedule is not the final programme and intended as a reference. The final programme will be shared a week before the course start date.
Monday
- Arrivals + tours until lunch
- Introduction to fungal ecology, history, human applications and research
Tuesday
- Cultivation overview
- Outdoor techniques overview
- Workshop: Growing outdoors on logs
Wednesday
- Workshop: Growing outdoors in buckets
- Fruiting with the seasons and creating a fruiting chamber
- Paddy straw bed preparation
Thursday
- Forest walk for local medicinal and other fungi: focusing on building experience and learning
- Workshop: Growing mushrooms in paddy straw and compost beds
Friday
- Lab practicals: mycelium propagation
- Preparing substrates
Saturday
- Fungal Soils and Syntropic Farming
- Medicinal Mushrooms - traditional uses and current research
Sunday:
- Closing
- Departures