Master Gardener Lecture - Cultivating Edible Mushrooms - In Person

Connie Morella Library - Bethesda

Join Master Gardener Tom Mulczynski in this informative workshop designed to familiarize you with growing edible mushrooms in your yards and gardens, and to help you get started.

Tom Mulczynski is a retired economist, 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 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.

UME Master Gardeners are volunteers who combine their love of plants, people, and the environment to help residents in their communities solve problems and make environmentally-sound decisions. They support the University of Maryland Extension (UME) mission by educating residents about safe, effective and sustainable horticultural practices that build healthy gardens, landscapes, and communities. The UME Master Gardener Program began in 1978 as a means to extend science-based knowledge to the general public by providing horticultural and pest management expertise to help protect and improve Maryland’s natural resources. Today, this popular program can be found in 20 Maryland counties and Baltimore City. 

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Questions about this program? Contact the branch at 1-240-777-0970

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

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