We are currently making our 2024-2025 schedule for workshops, seminars, and gatherings!!
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Our calendar is open and ready to be filled with beautiful days filled with sharing the wonder and love of fungi with you!
We are currently for hire for presentations, classes, cooking demos, workshops + more.
click HERE to see the full list and details about our offerings
Are you part of a club or crew of folks that want to learn how to better create relationship with mushrooms and fungi? Need sharper wild identification skills? Want to get your hands in the Earth and build mushroom beds?!? Ready to learn about the medicinal potential of Fungi?.oh the glory of Fungi, let me share them with you! AMAZING! LETS DO IT!
Email me directly to get a conversation started if you want to host us or collaborate!
Classes hosted by Smugtown Mushrooms, our hosts, third parties + others are all sales final and no refunds unless stated on the specific class information
Introduction to Medicinal Mushrooms + their Preparations
Together we go through various ways we can access the profound ways mushrooms can help us build immunity and strengthen ourselves and our communities. We go over several varieties of mushrooms that are known for their beneficial properties. Learn techniques and recipes to take home with you.
We navigate the complex web & ancient world of medicinal mushrooms. Explore how they grow in nature then, how they nurture us in return. Explore the deep history humans have with medicinal mushrooms & their power to heal. Identifying uses, and ways to prepare them. We will demonstrate the vast options and diversity of properties within just a handful of selected varieties. The most common and popular we will look at & work with is the Reishi or Lingzhi mushroom, the legendary ‘Mushroom of Immortality.’
Journey through other divine healers of the wild; the Turkey Tail mushroom, Lion’s Mane mushroom, & the common culinary mushroom, the Shiitake. Learn about how each of these mushrooms exists in nature, how we can cultivate a working relationship with them in our health regimens and of course keep them sacred and wild where they deserve to remain. Raising awareness of the growing market for these healers and what it means for us to do our part to grow our own, and explore the ethics of this huge growing industry.
-Learn the basic life cycle and biology of mushrooms and their Fungal relatives.
-Learn how mushrooms exist in nature to better understand how they grow, and how we can apply these methods to our lives, agriculture, health regimens and more.
-Journey through a few varieties of medicinal mushrooms that are commonly found in stores.
-We go over methods we can prepare and use these medicinals for both food and/or medicine.
-Tastings of long brewed Chaga tea and freshly extracted tinctures + oxymels.
For this class offering we are asking for a sliding scale donation between $40-80.
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Class offering is a donation based, sliding scale program. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please donate based on your overall financial ability and privilege. Proceeds go directly to the visiting educator, Olga Tzogas of Smugtown Mushrooms and Greater Good Ojai to continue their important work hosting events and community classes.
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