DATES ON WEEKENDS: 6 May, 7 May, 10 Jun, 11 Jun, 1 Jul, 2 Jul

Time: 12 pm to 6 pm

Facilitators: Bea and Mario from Mycobee Mushroom CIC

This work is by DONATION or FREE.

Booking here is essential as spaces are limited to 16. This event is by DONATION OR FREE. We highly encourage joining all dates to maximise the benefits. However, if attending all of them is not feasible for you, feel free to select the dates that suit your availability.

Suitable for all people including parents/guardians with children 8yrs old and over. If you are bringing a child, you need to reserve space for each one of you.  

ABOUT THIS WORK

A food growing project that will teach sustainable, low-tech mushroom-growing techniques, mycoremediation, and safe mushroom foraging.

Day 1- Introduction to fungi kingdom, the life cycle of mushrooms, making spore prints, ecological groups of mushrooms, foraging to explore different types of mushrooms, identifying toxic mushrooms to avoid, intro to cold pasteurisation, growing mushrooms on straw;

Day 2- In-depth saprobic fungi, Oyster mushroom varieties, low-tech growing Oysters on straw, making grow bags/ buckets for growing indoors or outdoors, and cloning oysters; Mushroom bags will be available to purchase.

Day 3- Making outdoor mushroom beds, learning about Wine Caps, Wood Blewits, and Shaggy Ink Caps;

Day 4- Growing mushrooms on logs, identifying trees, learning about Turkey Tail mushroom, Jelly Ears, and other fungi cultivated on logs, inoculating logs for outdoor growing;

Day 5- Sustainability and restoration, spent mushroom substrate, mycovermicomposting, intro to mycoremediation, microfilters;

Day 6- Fungi Family Fun Day, a summary of 5 previous classes, mushroom stories, mushroom food, mushroom coffee by the fire.

ABOUT BEA AND MARIO

Bea and Mario are co-founders of Mycobee Mushroom CIC, established in 2019 in Scotland. They are both fascinated and have been working and learning from the Fungi world since their childhood.  Bea is a certified Mycotherapist with Mykotroph Institute in Germany. Their vision is to create opportunities for people to run community Mushroom Farms and Forest Gardens to improve soil health and reverse the damage we created to our planet. 

IMPORTANT INFO

If you have any questions before or on the day regarding this event, please text 07590354112.

If you need any other support or have any concerns please contact our office by email holistic@planetary-healing or text: 0750 4438 763.

You will get an email reminder of your event 3 days before it. Please make sure you add holistic@planetary-healing.org to your email address book or safe senders list. This way you won't miss out on any important updates we have for you.

NOTE: On your arrival, please feel free to let us know your preferred pronouns (e.g. he/him, she/her, they/them) and what name you would like us to refer to you by.

CANCELLATION POLICY: Space is limited, so if for any reason you need to cancel, please let us know asap, so we can free up the space for others on the waiting list. Due to the amount of work involved, tickets are non-refundable.

DONATIONS: When you make a donation, you are supporting the continuation of our charitable work in the future. If you cannot make a donation because of your financial circumstance, you can access this work for FREE. We aim for this work to be accessible to everyone and we thank our funders for their support. If you need support with transportation costs, please contact us.

WEATHER: We will be outdoors most of the times and have pop up gazebos when needed.

WHAT TO BRING: Please come in warm clothes ready for all weather. Layers are recommended and outdoors footwear. We will provide tea and cups. If your group is 3 hours or longer, please bring a packed lunch

PHOTOS: Occasionally we take group pictures for promotions and funders, if you would prefer not to be in the picture, please communicate this to the facilitator on arrival.

CAR SHARE: We recommend car share and lifts between friends and participants as much as possible. Whenever you see a friend walking at Cockburnhill Road, check if they are coming for our programme and kindly offer a lift.

PARKING: There are about 6 car spaces in front of the woodland reserved for elders, those with mobility difficulties and parents with children. Please try to arrive a bit earlier and park at Cockburnhill Road, just after Pirnie Ha’ house. The woodland is only 3 minutes walking as you turn right from there.

WHERE: Meet at The Planetary Healing Community Woodland, Cockburnhill Road, Balerno, EH14 7JB. Bus 44 / 44A. Stop at the third bus stop after the roundabout. From there, proceed to enter Cockburnhill Road and walk for approximately 15 minutes until you reach a V junction, where you will need to turn right and walk for another 2 minutes. Upon arriving at the gate, there are 7 small bridges to cross before reaching the Hut, which is situated at the end of the woodland. Along the way, you will pass by the Yurt and the composting toilet.

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