Beginners Mushroom Growing Workshop

Join us in a workshop on growing mushrooms! We’ll show you how to grow mushrooms at home, with a hands on, practical and fun demo that will make your own mushroom growing bag to take home and the basic knowledge to get you started as a fungi farmer! Using basic and accessible ingredients.

This social workshop will get us stuck in together and we mix up a straightforward recipe for mushroom cultivation, growing Oyster Mushrooms.

The fungi kingdom is an extraordinary, vast, and often misunderstood part of the natural world. We’ll discuss how fungi shape our lives and environment, and touch on the amazing potentials mushrooms have as a food source and indeed a medicine.

The workshop will start at 11am, finishing at noon followed by a mushroom potluck. Please bring a mushroom based snack/dish along if you'd like. All ages welcome! We will be outdoors but undercover, so we suggest you wrap up warm and bring a waterproof layer. A notepad and pen to take notes would also be benefitial! There will be hot drinks available and the fire will be on to keep us warm.

This mushroom workshop will form part of a four part mini-series focusing on mushrooms, including:

• Autumnal foraging walk with Jemima Hall, 16th Sept
• Collaborating with Fungi talk with Rhyze Mushrooms
• Mushroom film Screening at the Space

About the garden:

The Wash House Garden is a small Market and Community Garden based in Parkhead in Glasgow’s east end. Alongside our lovely team of volunteers, we grow a broad range of produce. We believe in the healing and empowering capacity of food growing and interacting with the natural world, and our mission is to reconnect individuals and communities to the ancestral practice of growing our own food.

We are a queer collective of Community Growers, seeking to reimagine the food system and restore the intrinsically human need to be connected to the land. As well as fruit and veg, we grow mushrooms and run workshops on how you can too! We keep bees, with the help of our super Bee Club. And run a variety of land-skills and community workshops and educational courses, such as our Grow Your Own Course and our recent Pride Unwind event for the LGBT+ community.

Location:

The Wash House Garden, C.I.C.

136 Tollcross Road Glasgow G31 4XA

Food:

We will share a mushroom based pot-luck together after the workshop.

Access:

The garden is entered via a fairly steep concrete ramp that leads to a black plastic/wood chipped path that goes through the middle of the growing space to the workshop area. The path is wide enough for a wheelchair but please note that the ground is uneven/wood chipped. There is no accessible toilet on-site, only a small compost toilet that is accessed via a step. The nearest wheelchair accessible and ambulant toilets are located at Parkhead Library, a 2 minute walk away. There are also changing facilities there. Seating and shelter from the rain is available.

Anyone who needs a quiet space and some time out during a session is encouraged to use the whole of the garden to find space, including the tunnels. Please just make sure to not step on any of the growing areas. There are two bee hives in the far corner of the garden behind the tunnels, so please don’t go near the hives without PPE.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Cara at [email protected]

Getting here:

Closest transport links are: The garden is located a 2 minute walk from bus stops serving buses 61, 240, 255 from the city centre going down Gallowgate. Carntyne train station is a 15 minute walk away. There is free on-street parking just outside the garden. Bikes can be brought in and stored in the garden.

This workshop is delivered as part of the Food and Climate Action, a project delivered in partnership with 6 organisations in Glasgow and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.

For more information, visit glasgowfood.net/projects/food-climate-action

Host or Publisher Food and Climate Action (Glasgow Community Food Network)