Workshops
Workshops
Workshops
Stockport Fungi offers in-depth grow courses and arts workshops exploring the hidden secrets of the world’s most strange and beautiful organism. Covering everything from foraging and cultivation to artisan bowl and paper making, there is no other living thing quite like Fungi. Join us!
If you'd like us to deliver a workshop please get in touch.
Reuse & Grow
In this workshop we’ll show you how to grow delicious oyster mushrooms from recycledand repurposed materials. You’lltake away your own kit to watch your mushrooms grow that you can reuse,saving rubbish from landfill and learning a terrific newskill.
Grow Outdoors
This inoculation class teaches you how to cultivate mushrooms in a garden or outdoor space. Through this simple, fun method, you’ll produce oysters, shiitakes and turkey tail mushrooms wherever you are, for years to comewith minimal space needed.There’s options to inoculate pre existing flower beds or containers or we provided locally sourced felled logs.
Cooking With Mushrooms
Don't know what to do with the mushrooms you've grown? Come and learn how to cook them with us! We'll be joined by a Manchester chef where we'll go through different methods of cooking oyster and lions mane mushrooms. We'll also cover dehydrating and fermenting fungi.
Fungi Forage
Join us as we guide you through a foraging adventure through your nearest city park or woodland. You’ll discover the different types of edible and medicinal flora and fungi on your doorstep.How to identify it, what its used for,and the wonderful benefits.
Bowl Building
In this workshop you’ll discover the many uses of mycelium(simply put: the root of the mushroom)for art and building, then learn how to grow your own bowls.
Paper Making
Learn how to make paper without cutting down a single tree. In these sessions, you’ll use foraged and cultivated mushrooms to craft beautiful organic material perfect for your artistic or writtenventures. You’ll also get to play about with all kinds of natural dyes and paints.
More Information
Please email if you’d like to book a private workshop and please check our events page for workshops coming up.