Mushrooms A-Z: Preparing and Growing Fungi for Food and Medicine

Learn how to best prepare mushrooms for optimal benefit and get inspired to incorporate them into your daily life through this informative workshop with Driftless Folk School, Linda Conroy & Ingrid Daudert! Whether you grow, forage or purchase mushrooms, this workshop will guide you on how to use them in your kitchen and medicine chest.

Part I: Mushrooms in the Kitchen and Apothecary

The first part of the day will be spent learning to prepare mushrooms for food and medicine. After a presentation on the healing properties of mushrooms by herbalist Linda Conroy, attendees will make several preparations to take home, including a delicious pate, infused vinegar, tincture and powder blend.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM- Delicious mushroom-based lunch

Part II: Mushroom Cultivation

Ingrid Daudert will discuss mushroom cultivation, then guide the class through a hands-on process of shiitake mushroom log inoculation. Participants will help inoculate logs, learn to prepare…