$95, $85 Member (commuter with meals Fri. dinner-Sat. lunch)

Register by 4/13.

Learn how to grow, use and identify mushrooms with master herbalist Nathaniel Whitmore. The workshop begins on Friday evening with dinner in the historic Watres Lodge followed by a presentation introducing the agricultural, culinary, medicinal, and environmental significance of mushrooms. Saturday will be spent learning different cultivation techniques; harvesting, storage and preparing a log with spawn to grow shiitake that you will take home to harvest in a few months; and going on a Spring mushroom walk. 

Nathaniel's work with mushrooms grew from his experiences as a wild vegetable and herb forager.  Nathaniel harvests a wide variety of edible mushrooms from the wild.  On a good mushroom year he eats wild mushrooms regularly through the season, along with his home-grown shiitake mushrooms.  He also makes medicine from wild mushrooms, such as from the famed Reishi (Ling Zhi).  Nathaniel recently started the Upper Delaware Mushroom Society, a member-run mushroom club, in order to promote mycological education in our region.