Native Fungi for Food Resilience: Advanced Workshop with Matariki Mushrooms

Take your mushroom growing to the next level 🍄 Ready to go beyond grow kits? In this hands-on advanced workshop, Mihau and Valetta of Matariki Mushrooms show you how to expand your capacity for food resilience with fungi: making your own spawn, growing on logs that fruit for years, and building your own library of native strains. Ideal if you've done our beginners' workshop or already have some mushroom growing experience. What you'll learn • Recap and check-in: a refresher on fungi ecology and the beginners' workshop, plus a check-in on how your spawn and grow kits are going • Native fungi in the wild: more native species, with tips on where to find them and what to avoid • Making spawn: learn to make dowel spawn and liquid culture • Log cultivation: grow native shiitake on logs and learn how to manage them over the years • Your own genetic library: how to use these methods to preserve and multiply your favourite strains, building long-term food resilience What you'll take home • Your own inoculated native shiitake log, which fruits for several years • A liquid culture syringe of pekepeke-kiore, a native cousin of lion's mane • The skills to keep making your own spawn and expanding your mushroom growing at home Good to know • When: Saturday 28 November, 1-5pm • Where: Paekākāriki Scout Hall, Upper Campbell Park, Paekākāriki (a short walk from Paekākāriki train station) • Included: all materials, a presentation, a hands-on practical session and afternoon tea • Afterpay available: pay in 4 interest-free installments New to mushroom growing? Start with our Beginners · Low-Tech Growing workshop on Saturday 14 November: learn the foundations of fungi ecology, meet a range of native species, and take home your own grow kit. Book both workshops and get a free copy of our book Family of Forest & Fungi / He Tukutuku Toiora!