Courses
16th- 17th of May 2025
Start Your Own Mushroom Farm
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This Hands-on Course will teach you everything you need to know on how to set up a small to medium-scale outdoor mushroom farm. Learn how to cultivate strains including Turkey Tail, Artists Conk, Lions Mane, and Birch Polypore. Oyster, Beef Steak Fungi, and Shiitake.
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Get hands-on inoculating logs while setting up a live mushroom farm. Learn the skill of medicine making and take home your medicine. Spend time looking, tasting, touching, and smelling in a session on identification and processing. Come home with a fully comprehensive course booklet to keep referring to for years to come.
Friday 30th and 31st May
Intro: Outdoor Mushroom Growing & Community Inoculation
Taught By Tasha Elena
Two mornings, Friday and Saturday
On my home turf of Frome, im delighted to offer this bite sized course ideal for any mushroom lovers.
Two mornings bookable together or separately, with an option to stay on after lunch and practice the skills inoculating Vallis Veges new mushroom farm! ​​​
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Friday: Will cover Introduction to growing skills focusing on the ancient knowledge of shiitake from Japan, lions mane, chicken of the woods, oyster and beefsteak fungi. Learn how to site where to grow, equipment, and medicinal qualities within edible mushooms.
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Saturday: We'll cover working and growing medicinal mushrooms, especially covering growing and using native strains and how to work with them in a way that makes their medicine biovavilable for the body through decotion, tincture and glycerine extraction for medicine making.
Morning Sessions will be held by Tasha Expert Mushroom Grower, Assisted by Tito ​from Vallis Veg. Lunch Provided by Land, Food and Medicine, all course attendees can stay on for community inoculation. Or you can join community inoculation for free both afternoons. Held by Tito.
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Saturday 7th June
Wild Nutrition, Coast
Taught By Tasha Elena and Daniel Lees
​An immersive and wild experience on the Island of Portland. This unique course is taught within and along the coastal line of the sea. Combining coasteering, foraging and wild nutrition. ​​
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Daniel, a qualified expert in Coasteering and will guide us as we navigate the rocks, the water and the edges where so much interesting seaweed and sea life is available to witness and taste. Tasha his co-teacher holds 15 years experience of wild food, wild tending and working with these amazing indigenous ingredients in professional kitchens. Tasha will guide connecting to the amazing power of the sea and how to use the harvest alongside Daniel.​
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Finish the day learning to preserve and cook with the Wild Coast ingredients. Finishing in a celebration of delicious feast of wild delights that have been harvested in the morning.
