This event is sponsored by Orange Environment

How to Grow Mushrooms in Your Back Yard: Learn about growing mushrooms as a food source. Two sessions, 9 a.m.-12 and 1:30-5 p.m. on March 7th at the Warwick Valley Community Center, 11 Hamilton Ave., Warwick. Sponsored by Orange Environment, Inc. and led by experts Peter Lai and Joseph Gregoire, the morning session will cover: different types of mushrooms (shiitake, lion mane, oyster and stropharia) and their cultivation methods (in logs, totems, or woodchip beds), management considerations, and the economics of growing mushrooms as a small farm enterprise. Cost is $45 for this session. The afternoon session will include: a hands-on session inoculating logs with shiitake spores so you can take them home to reap a harvest and a demonstration on growing oyster mushrooms on straw and stropharia in woodchip beds. Cost for this session is $75. Fee includes plant-based organic lunch from 12 to 1:30. For more info/or to register, call 845-313-4246 or email PeterL@frontiernet.net. If you are an Orange Environment member, or if you sign up as a group of 2 or more, a 10% discount on tuition will be applied. Sign up for both sessions and pay only $100. Please make out check to Orange Environment, Inc. and mail to P.O. Box 25, Goshen, NY 10924.