Grow Edible Oyster Mushroom Workshop

Aside from being nutritionally healthy and delicious, mushrooms are extremely important for our ecosystem, with their role in nature being decomposers. They break down dead and decaying matter, recycling and turning dead matter like leaves and dead animals found in forests back into soil.

Most people associate mushrooms with the fruiting body, which is what we eat. The most important part of any fungi, however, is the vast network of mycelium, which is the vegetative part of a fungus. Mycelium is the white, “stringy” material that you often find in healthy forest soils.

Through this workshop with Dr Chan Pick Kuen from @bloomingmushrooms, learn the the step-by-step guide to growing mushrooms at home. This workshop will show you the whole life cycle of mushroom and how it is grown commercially from tissue culture to harvesting. It will also show how you can grow them on a small scale using simple methods and minimal equipment. This workshop is suitable for beginners with no prior experiences needed. From the workshop, you will make a mushroom block from a substrate of ready to use sawdust mix and mushroom spawn, learn about tissue culture and also how you can cultivate mushrooms using used ground coffee.

Mushroom cultivation from laboratory to farm
This course is a step-by-step guide to growing mushrooms at home. The course will show you the whole life cycle of mushroom and how it is grown commercially from tissue culture to harvesting. It will also show how you can grow them on a small scale using simple methods and minimal equipment. The course is suitable for school children to adult.

Benefit:
Participant will get to learn the how mushroom is cultivated, how to grow mushroom using household waste.

Outcome:
Participant will get to learn to benefits of different types of mushroom and its health benefit.