Whether you grow, forage or purchase mushrooms, it is easy to bring them into your kitchen and medicine chest. Learn how to best prepare mushrooms for optimal benefit and get inspired to incorporate them into your daily life through this informative workshop. The second part of the day will be spent learning to grow mushrooms and everyone will take home their own inoculated log.
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, everyone will make several preparations to take home including a delicious pate, infused vinegar, tincture and powder blend.
Delicious Mushroom-based lunch (noon-1pm)
Part II: Mushroom Cultivation
Ingrid Daudert will talk about mushroom cultivation. This talk will be followed by a hands-on process of shiitake mushroom log inoculation. During the hands-on component, everyone will help to inoculate logs, learn to prepare and inoculate a wine cap mushroom bed and to grown oyster mushrooms in the garden as well as small spaces. Everyone will take home an inoculated log, as well as handouts, recipes, and instructions. Additional logs will be available for purchase.
Date: Saturday, June 7
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Lunch will be provided.
Ages: Adults only
Materials Fees: $75
Location: Edgerton, WI
Sliding Scale Course Fee Guidelines (not including Materials Fees)
Supporter Level Ticket: $125
If you move through the world with financial ease and the means to fulfill many of your wants as well as your needs – you are able to eat out when you want, abundantly meet your needs through employment or can comfortably not work, have access to family wealth, own property, etc. – consider paying at this level, which will help us ensure the long term sustainability of our programs while keeping our offerings accessible to those with access to fewer resources.
Sustainer Level Ticket: $100
If you are able to meet your needs with relative ease while budgeting your educational and entertainment spending – for instance, you are able to take classes and eat out occasionally as long as you are mindful – consider paying at this level, which will help sustain the work of the Folk School at a modest level.
Supported Level Ticket: $75
If you struggle to fund your basic needs and have limited access to resources in your family and community, or if you would not be able to access this offering without a discounted payment option, consider paying at this level. We value your presence and contributions to our community and do not want any economic circumstances to be a barrier to attendance!
Instructor Bio - Linda Conroy
Linda M. Conroy, MSS, MLSP is a bioregional herbalist, myco-herbalist, traditional food educator, traditional skills educator and a community organizer. She dedicates her life to connecting with the green world and sharing the earth's wisdom. Her primary mentors are the plants who never cease to instill a sense of awe in her daily life. Linda has a certificate in permaculture design, which she completed through the International Earth Activist Program, has studied with Isla Burgess of the International College of herbal medicine and has been a student of compassionate nonviolent communication for over 30 years. Linda has participated in the doula training through the Seattle School of Midwifery and the Midwifery Assistant Program through The Farm Midwives in Tennessee. In addition, she is trained as a Wilderness First Responder. For close to 3 decades, Linda has presented well-received programs and apprenticeship programs. She is the creator of the ever popular Wild Eats Community Meals, Moonwise Herbs, The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference, Mycelium Mysteries Women's Mushroom Conference as well as Women's Wellness Series. Participants in programs as well as events produced and facilitated by Linda walk away with an appreciation for the natural world. Her programs inspire people to incorporate plants, mushrooms and traditional skills into their daily life. Linda is a vibrant, passionate woman who continually seeks to deepen her connection to the green world!
To find out more about Linda's work, visit www.moonwiseherbs.com and www.midwestwomensherbal.com