A practical introduction to home-scale mushroom cultivation. This workshop takes a jaunt through several very effective methods to begin growing your own. We will also touch on expanded operations and the variables involved with that process.

Extraction of the compounds from mushrooms differs from cannabis. Breaking the more muscular cell wall of a mushroom versus the single cell wall of the trichomes is more of a challenge. Mushrooms have hydrophilic (water-loving) and hydrophobic (water-hating) compounds, while cannabis is primarily hydrophobic. This time will focus on the mushroom extraction of compounds through many different processes. As a natural product with possible medical benefits, mushrooms are getting more positive headlines than cannabis is recent. Mushrooms have been used for eons as food and medicine. There is more detailed research on mushrooms than on cannabis because not all the benefits were banned. There have been mushrooms in our salads and soups and used as medicines because they are nutritional food. There is more consumption, and it has been increasing over the years. From the extensive metabolic profiling of mushrooms to table food, mushrooms need to be extracted.