Simple Medicinal Mushroom Preparations

Simple Medicinal Mushroom Preparations

With Olga Tzogas.

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.’ 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.

Extracts and medicinal mushroom preparations don’t have to taste bad, this doesn’t make taking them for our general wellness as easy. Lets try something different! Getting creative with recipes and treating mushrooms like Turkey Tail, Lions Mane + Reishi as the ingredient to inspire a DIY, intuitive approach to making extracts, like vinegars, tinctures + oxymels. Learn ways we can tap into the seasons, for both our fungi we plan to use but also what's growing around us at farms, forest + even in our yards. Lets work with some classic combo of tastes and flavors but with a little twist. Together we explore and open your palate by mixing the gastronomic + functionality of fungi and their allies.

Attendees make and take home their own 4 oz medicinal mushroom extract that is alcohol free.

• 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 + in our neighboring ecosystems
• Learn simple methods of preparation and use these medicinals for both food and/or medicine.

About Olga:
Olga Tzogas was born + raised into a Greek diner family, surrounded by multi-generational chefs, homemade food + incredible flavors. She started her love affair with Fungi and plants over 20 years ago, with the help & guidance of family, teachers and community. In 2011, Smugtown Mushrooms started and still offer fresh mushrooms, extracts, dried medicinal mushrooms & cultivation supplies to grow mushrooms, indoors or outdoors, for food or for medicine. Olga has taught hundreds of folks how to grow mushrooms, make medicine and learn about the glory of Fungi and the natural world. Annually, Olga returns to her ancestral homeland of Greece to guide small groups to immerse in land based + traditional knowledge sharing, highlighting the fungi and plants there.

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NOTE:

This even is hosted at the LA County Arboretum; Arboretum admission is not required for attendees of this event. Ticketed attendees will check in outside the entrance of the Arboretum and be let in to the event room.

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