SHROOMSHOP: Mushroom Cultivation Workshop for Beginners

Shroomshop: Mushroom Cultivation for Beginners

Learn how to grow edible, nootropic and magically medicinal mushrooms at home from expert cultivator Darren Le Baron.

Darren has been educating and growing mushrooms for over thirteen years, welcoming thousands of budding mycologists to his famous Shroomshop! This event will sell out, so grab your ticket now!

Mushrooms have been growing wild since prehistoric times. Their therapeutic value has been prized in indigenous cultures, for thousands of years. They play a critical role in medicinal practice and were noted in some of the first books on herbal medicine written thousands of years ago

In the past few decades, mushrooms have become more popular for their therapeutic qualities in the west as a result of an expanding body of scientific research supporting their numerous health benefits.

Come and learn the basics of mushroom cultivation, explore various techniques for growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms such as Oyster, Reishi, Lions Mane and many other magical varieties of mushrooms.

This will be a hands on experience we will cover everything you need to know to get you started.

What you will learn...

- What are Mushrooms?

- How do Mushrooms grow?

- How to cultivate Mushrooms at home!

- How to make your very own grain spawn!

- Making a mushroom fruiting tub!

- Mushroom Aftercare!

- Where to get everything?

Each participant will leave with an inoculated mushroom kit and access to digital notes.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Darren Le Baron is an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research, and is based between the UK and the Caribbean. 

Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes and mushroom educational programs, he is a keen cultivator and teacher. He has been growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for over thirteen years and has translated his home growing experiences into a social enterprise.

His achievements include launching the UK's first accredited Mycology and Mushroom Cultivation course for schools and young people in 2021, providing hands-on experience to empower school children and at-risk youth.

Darren is a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications.

He is a member and presenter at the London Psychedelic Society, a chair and Breaking Convention committee member. He is also a regular presenter at the Detroit Psychedelic Conference, Ozora, Noisily and Lightning in a Bottle Festivals, as well as numerous gatherings around the world sharing his extensive research on psychedelics and how they can help support humanity in the here and now.

He is also an Organic Horticulturist and Permaculture tutor who supports schools, businesses and so called hard to reach communities around the world to create holistic and sustainable working systems.

Collectively his work aims to inform and empower individuals from diverse backgrounds to cope with social challenges and contribute to community development as well as self-improvement in an innovative, creative, culturally-aware style.