MushNet Log Inoculation at East New York Farms!

The NYC Mushroom Network (MushNet) is partnering with East New York Farms! to grow mushrooms on logs sourced from NYC parks, which will become a living part of the East NY Farms! landscape.

In this hands-on workshop, we will walk participants through drilling holes in the logs, inoculating them with mushroom spawn, and sealing them to incubate and fruit next season. We'll finish by discussing best practices for maintaining a successful outdoor mushroom-growing system.

This workshop is one of several mushroom log inoculation workshops organized by MushNet this spring. Please check out our evenbrite page for other dates and locations.

The NYC Mushroom Network is a grassroots organization that connects the urban forest, community gardens, and local growers through growing mushrooms on organic waste streams. Our spawn is made in Queens at Biotech Without Borders and our logs are sourced from the Parks Dept and local arborists in NYC.

The mission of East New York Farms! is to organize youth and adults to address food justice in their community by promoting local sustainable agriculture and community-led economic development. They have been working with youth, gardeners, farmers, and entrepreneurs to build a more just and sustainable community since 1998.

The ENY Youth Farm, established in 2000, is a dynamic 1/2 acre site where they grow organic produce for their Farmers Market and food distributions, provide garden beds for community members to grow in, house a beehive, facilitate on site composting and serve as a learning and training space for their Youth Program.

This workshop is lead by Katya Bloomberg and Zachary Tan Strein.

Katya is a lifestyle medicine coach and educator from Central Asia who explores how technology shapes food, culture, and our shared future. She is the founding editor of MYCRO Mag, recognized by NYU Green as a Climate Hero, and the creator of Edible Graveyards, recently featured at Falmouth University in the UK. She teaches mycology, mushroom cultivation, foraging, and biomaterials across NYC organizations, builds community through CSA and food pantry work, and serves on the board of Slow Food NYC. Katya also loves hosting cookouts and sharing her homemade Central Asian ladzhan chili oil.

Zach is an active member of his community garden, a farmer, a home cook and a bicycle commuter. When he was young his family had a small garden where they grew cherry tomatoes; he has loved growing food ever since. His experience with mushrooms includes soaking wood ear mushrooms to cook with, foraging for chicken of the woods upstate and learning to grow shiitake with Cornell Cooperative Extension as a part of the Community Mushroom Educator program.

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