Levon Durr has been an amateur mycologist for over 20 yrs. He holds certifications in Permaculture Design, Mycorestoration, and Mushroom Cultivation. Levon founded Fungaia Farm in 2011, a mushroom company located in Eureka, CA focusing on fresh and medicinal mushrooms, mushroom growing supplies, and mycoremediation.

Blair Phillips is the land steward and will be teaching about forest health, fuels reduction, chaperoning fire, and adaptive strategies to utilize forest biomass. See his full bio here.

Saturday will be an introduction to forest stewardship and a 2 hour intensive on mushroom propagation, with an introductory hands propagation workshop. Day two will be an applied practicum in which we will harvest materials and inoculate them with Shitake spawn. We will provide an all organic lunch and dinner on Saturday and all organic breakfast and lunch on Sunday. Students will go home with their own inoculated log to fruit at home.

The workshop suggested price is $300; but students may choose to pay $200 – $250 according to their ability to pay for both days, including organic meals (2 lunches, 1 dinner, 1 breakfast) and camping or bunk yurt housing included.  Students are encouraged to bring extra cash for products they can purchase as supplies for applying what they learn at home. Myceliated plugs, spawn, and tool adapters will all be available for purchase.