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[Karryn Olson-Ramanujan <karrynolson AT gmail.com>]

Highly recommended course offered by FLPCI co-founder, Steve Gabriel, author of "Farming the Woods" and an upcoming book on Silvopasture. Taught on the demonstration farm run by Steve and Elizabeth Gabriel.

Best,

Karryn

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From: Steve Gabriel <sfg53 AT cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 8:22 AM
Subject: August "News from the Woods" - Mushroom Edition!
To: karrynolson AT gmail.com

News from the Woods – Mushroom Edition!

a monthly digest of resources, events, and people in forestry & agroforestry

 

August 2017

 

 

Greetings!

 

This month, we are ALL about mushrooms. It’s been an incredible year of abundance in Central NY, with mushrooms popping like crazy, both on our farm and in the woods.

 

Our instagram account is full of pictures of what we’ve found lately: https://www.instagram.com/wellspringforestfarmschool/

 

We are excited to share what we know during our annual Fungi Cultivation and Foraging Short Course coming up September 15 – 17. Join us for mushroom forays into the woods, local farm lunches, and lots of hands-on inoculation. We will be joined by Olga Tzogas from Smugtown Mushrooms.

 

Sign up before August 11 and save $50, and bring a fungal friend for an additional $50 savings.

 

We link to some free resources on all things mushroom below, as well as offer more information on the class.

 

For the trees (and the fungi),

Steve & Elizabeth

 

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Resources

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Read our free articles on medicinal mushrooms, drying mushrooms in the sun to increase vitamin D, and safe approaches to foraging in the woods: http://media.wellspringforestfarm.com

 

Download factsheets and watch videos on many methods for mushroom cultivation at http://cornellmushrooms.org/factsheets, a resource that Steve has been curating for many years in his work for the cooperative extension network.

Visit the best online resource to help you identify wild mushrooms: http://mushroomexpert.com/

 

 

Nothing replaces learning mushrooms from people, in the flesh. Read on for more information on our upcoming workshop…

 

 

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Upcoming Events

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Fungi Cultivation & Foraging Short Course

September 15 - 17

…in the beautiful woods of the Finger Lakes Region of New York

Explore the wondrous world of fungi and learn how to grow and forage mushrooms with Farming the Woods co-author Steve Gabriel and Olga Tzogas of Smugtown Mushrooms.

 

During this 3-day intensive course participants will identify wild mushrooms and learn tree ID and forest ecology, inoculate logs, straw, and grain, learn low-tech propagation techniques, and of course, cook and eat mushrooms.

 

Participants will build their skills in mushroom identification, cultivation, and propagation and leave the course equipped with the knowledge and tools.

 

Topics Covered:

·      Lifecycle of Fungi

·      Ecology; where to find mushrooms in the woods

·      Safe and ethical wild mushroom harvesting

·      Shiitake and others on logs, stumps, and woodchips

·      Oyster on straw, coffee grounds, and sawdust

·      Making your own mushrooms medicine

·      Low-Tech methods to propagate and grow

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$300 includes local farm lunch each day, lots of fungal goodies to take home, and free access to our online course

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SIGN UP BY AUGUST 11 and receive $50 off

Sign up along with a fungal friend and save $50 each.

$30 to camp onsite, or stay in our yurt on the farm.

 

 

 

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Quote of the Month:

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“On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.”

 

Donal Henahan

 

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“News from the Woods” is brought to you by:

 

Wellspring Forest Farm & School

leaving forests in our footsteps

Steve & Elizabeth Gabriel

Mecklenburg, NY

www.WellspringForestFarm.com

farmers@wellspringforestfarmcom

 

 

 

Let us know what you think!

 

 

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