Grow Gourmet Mushrooms Indoors

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Mushrooms have been utilized for thousands of years for medicinal and edible purposes. John Michelotti, owner of Catskill Fungi, will show you how to cultivate gourmet mushrooms at home using safe and simple techniques. Using cardboard and coffee grounds, create your own oyster mushroom starter (Pleurotus ostreatus), while learning about the life cycles, characteristics, and medicinal and culinary properties of fungi.

Materials Information:
For in-person sessions: All materials provided.
For online sessions: While participants are not required to blend materials along with the demonstration, the materials list linked below explains what supplies you'll want to have available so you can put what you've learned into action after class.

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Schedule:	Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Times:	06:00pm-07:30pm EDT
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Meeting Date Start Time End Time Wednesday, June 25, 2025 06:00pm 07:30pm Meeting Date Start Time End Time Wednesday, June 25, 2025 06:00pm 07:30pm
Instructor:	John Michelotti John Michelotti John Michelotti John Michelotti is the owner of Catskill Fungi. which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts. John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA). He serves as Medicinal Mushroom Committee Chair and is a Poison Control Consultant for the North American Mycological Association. He was chosen by the Catskill Center as a "Steward of the Catskills" for his contribution to the environment. John has had the pleasure to engage students from Elementary Schools to Colleges and Universities. He has taught at the New York Botanical Gardens for the past 8 years and regularly presents to Mycological Associations across the country. He served on the Mushroom Advisory Panel for Certified Naturally Grown to develop ecological standards in mushroom production across North America and has taught the Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification Course to certify foragers to sell wild mushrooms to restaurants and supermarkets in 13 states. His goal is to educate and inspire people to pair with fungi to improve the environment, their health, and communities.
Location:	Online-Live,
Session Number:	254CKG207O
Price:	Price Non-Member : $95.00 Member : $86.00

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