Course Summary
Thriving Farmer Mushroom Summit
Module 1: Introduction
Lesson 1: Welcome to the Mushroom Summit!
Lesson 2: About Your Host - Michael Kilpatrick
Lesson 3: The Official Mushroom Summit Workbook!
Lesson 4: Mushroom Summit Preview with Q&A
Lesson 5: Mushroom Summit Day 1 Recap with Q&A
Lesson 6: Mushroom Summit Day 2 Recap with Q&A
Lesson 7: Mushroom Summit Day 3 Recap with Q&A
Module: 2 Day 1 - Why Mushrooms?
Lesson 1: Tradd Cotter - Pushing the Boundaries: How mushrooms are healing us, housing us, and saving our planet
Lesson 2: Ryan Bouchard & Emily Schmidt - Foraging for Mushrooms: Best practices to find wild treasure while staying safe
Lesson 3: Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures
Lesson 4: Tina Ellor - Lions Mane: A deep-dive into this healing and tasty fungi
Lesson 5: Jess Starwood - Celebrating mushrooms: Foraging and creating foraged feasts with mushrooms
Lesson 6: Shadi Ramey - Truffle Mushrooms: Magic, Folklore, and Gastronomy
Lesson 7: Erik Lomen - Mycological Innovations for Small and Large Commercial Mushroom Farmers
Lesson 8: Gary Hopkins - Button Mushroom Production: Production on a commercial scale
Lesson 9: Steve Gabriel - Mushroom Research at Cornell Small Farm Program
Lesson 10: Charles Barber - Medicinal Mushrooms: 5 mushrooms everyone should know
Module 3: Day 2 - Getting Started With Mushrooms
Lesson 1: Adam Sayner - What Is Low Tech Mushroom Farming: How to grow mushrooms without expensive or dangerous equipment!
Lesson 2: Tim Hensley - The Mushroom Life: Tour of an outdoor mushroom farm
Lesson 3: Tim Hensley - Secrets to Log-Raised Mushrooms: How to start raising mushrooms on logs the easy way
Lesson 4: William Padilla-Brown - CordyQuest: history, cultivation and uses of cordycep mushrooms
Lesson 5: John Holliday - Innovations in Commercial Mushroom Production
Lesson 6: Logan Keister - An Introduction to Mycoforestry
Lesson 7: Willie Crosby - Profitable Mushroom Production: Starting Your Mushroom Business
Lesson 8: Roger & Mary Winstead - Bootstrapping a Hoophouse Grow: A Farmer's Friend Caterpillar to Grow Mushrooms
Lesson 9: Jordan Jent - Mushroom Lab 101: How to work with your own cultures
Lesson 10: Drew Zimmerman - Low Tunnel Mushroom Growing: Exploring outdoor cultivation of gourmet mushrooms.
Lesson 11: Day 2 Bonus - Drew Zimmerman Tour of Mushroom Farm
Lesson 12: Jeffrey Kleypas - Keep It Safe: Food safety and raising mushrooms
Lesson 13: Justin Langley - Stoller Spawn Method: Doubling your nutrients for faster, more robust spawn runs
Module 4: Day 3 - Building the Business and Selling Mushrooms
Lesson 1: Eric Jong - Don't sell yourself short! Innovative ways to make more income on your mushroom farm without growing more mushrooms!
Lesson 2: Alex Winstead - Operating a Commercial Organic Specialty Mushroom Farm
Lesson 3: Dan Miller - Mushroom Money: Crowdfunding for mushroom farmers
Lesson 4: Lori Rice - Oh So Tasty: Developing consumer-friendly mushroom recipes to promote your products
Lesson 5: Lori Rice - Make Your Mushrooms Shine: Tips for photographing mushrooms
Lesson 6: Jessica Martin - Social Media: Creating basic graphics on Canva to showcase your mushrooms!
Lesson 7: Adam Cohen - Texas Fungus: From startup to full-time in less than 2 years
Lesson 8: Erika Tebbens - Success with Farmers Markets
Module 5: Bonuses
Lesson 1: Funding Your Farm with Steward
Lesson 2: Resource Guide
Lesson 3: Spore Print
Lesson 4: Cloning a Mushroom with Cardboard
Lesson 5: Mushroom Summit Strategy Session Feb 10 2021
Lesson 6: Gro Cycle Free Video Workshop and E-Book