Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation with Dakota Rambin

A hands-on beginner's workshop on growing mushrooms at home. No lab, no expensive equipment, no experience required.
About this Event

Intro to Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation with Dakota Rambin

Class Description

You don't need a sterile lab or a big budget to grow mushrooms at home. You need a storage tote, some patience, and a few hours with someone who knows what they're doing.

This hands-on workshop with cultivation educator Dakota Rambin covers the full home-growing workflow, from sterile technique and grain spawn basics all the way to liquid culture, cloning, and scaling up. Whether you're apartment-sized on space or just new to all of this, Dakota's approach is designed to meet you where you are.

What's Covered

• Sterile technique and safety
• Grain spawn: the basics of "mushroom seed"
• Using common household products and tools to inoculate and grow
• How to make any space in your home clean enough for growing
• Cloning a mushroom in the field
• Scaling up: making more than one batch at a time
• Budget tools and resources

Details
Date: September 11
Time: 5:30 to 9:00 pm
Location: Casa Del Prado, Room 101 | Balboa Park, San Diego
Cost: $40 Members, $50 Non-Members
Space is limited to 50 participants.

This workshop is hosted by the San Diego Mycological Society (SDMYCO), a San Diego-based nonprofit focused on mycology education. Learn more at sdmyco.org or follow us @sdmyco.

Your Instructor
Dakota Rambin is a cultivation educator who specializes in making mushroom growing accessible to beginners. His workshops focus on practical, low-tech methods that work in real home environments, no specialized lab space required. He has taught hands-on cultivation workshops with the San Diego Mycological Society and brings a straightforward, demystifying approach to every class.

Agenda

🕑: 05:30 PM - 05:45 PM
Check In
🕑: 05:45 PM - 08:45 PM
Presentation and Hands On Instruction
🕑: 08:45 PM - 09:15 PM
Clean up