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Master Gardener Lectures

Cultivating Edible Mushrooms in Your Home Garden

Join Master Gardener, Tom Mulczynski as he covers the basics of growing mushrooms in your home garden.

This is a 30 minute discussion designed to familiarize you with growing edible mushrooms in your yards and gardens, and to help you get started. We'll learn what mushrooms are and how they are different from plants. Tom will talk about how to grow different kinds of mushrooms, and what substrates to grow them in.

Speaker Bio:

Tom Mulczynski has been a Master Gardener since 2021, a mushroom fan since the fifth grade, and has been growing mushrooms ever since he learned to grow shiitakes on logs in June of 2017. Since then he has cultivated over sixteen different types of edible mushrooms, both indoors and outside in his garden and around the house. While he’s waiting for mushrooms to fruit, he grows pumpkins on his front lawn (to the delight of the neighborhood kids and their parents), tends his garden, feeds birds, and gets his exercise chasing bunnies from his garden.

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