Hollyhock - Island Getaway Health Retreat

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Save the world, one mushroom at a time. Fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer powerful, practical solutions to help slow down the erosion of our earth and enhance both human and ecosystem health. Learn easy-to-grow cultivation methods using a hands-on approach, and gain the skills to identify at least twenty-five species of mushroom, both wild and cultivated. Learn the secrets of cooking with mushrooms. Delve into their historic and contemporary uses as food and medicine, and learn how to make mushroom fibre. Discuss the evolution of mushrooms in ecosystems and fungi’s crucial roles in destroying pollutants and in up-channelling nutrients for the benefit of other organisms in the biosphere.

 

Paul Stamets is founder of Fungi Perfecti, and was named by Utne Reader magazine as one of the Top Fifty visionaries in 2008. He has pioneered many innovations in the cultivation and use of edible and medicinal mushrooms. He is the author of The Mushroom Cultivator, Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, and Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. www.fungi.com

 

TUITION: $545 CDN (meals and accomodations extra) / 4 nights