Event Details
Date
September 18, 2019
Time
Wednesday, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Location
Kelly St. Community Garden
Bronx, NY 10459
Host
Harvest New YorkYolanda Gonzalez
516-305-0358
email Yolanda Gonzalez
Learn to Grow Mushrooms - Summer Workshops in NYC
September 18, 2019
Both a food and a medicine, mushrooms are easy to grow at home and on gardens and farms, with minimal start-up costs and materials you may already have on hand. Join Cornell Cooperative Extension, Farm School NYC, and Just Food for a workshop where you'll learn to inoculate a shiitake log, grow oysters on straw, and plant wine cap in wood chips. Everyone takes home materials that will produce mushrooms! We will emphasize the potential for growing mushrooms as a small enterprise for community and local markets.
REGISTER online for this FREE event!
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