Substrate & Wood Fungi production course
Fed up with the internet overload of information on mushroom growing? Don’t know who to believe anymore? In order to run a profitable project or business, you would prefer to have the right information, practical experience and best-practices to work with right away?
If you struggle with questions such as
- “There is no growth from the grains in the mother spawn 5 days after inoculation. Is there something wrong?”
- “I’m experiencing massive losses because of orange and green mould in my incubation rooms. What can I do?”
- “I’m trying to find a proper substrate formulation for my substrate, but it takes me so long. How can it go faster?”
- Then our course can help you
Group courses in the most unique learning environment on fungi worldwide
- The importance of spawn quality in substrate production
- A solid introduction to substrate production
- The necessary fundamentals of biology for substrate producers
- Exploring building technics such as water supply, energy efficiency, …
- How to deal with micro-organisms in substrate production?
- A biological approach of different production stages : incubation, ripening, fuctification
- Pasteurisation process for substrates of lignicolous mushrooms: theory and practice, advantages and disadvantages
- Autoclaving process: theory on steam production and heat transfer, correct autoclaving procedure,…
- A technical approach on cooling and heating
- An overview of fructification techniques
- How to design a proper Substrate Formulation?
- And more
We can not teach you how to grow White Button Mushrooms! For Agaricus bisporus courses, check out Mushroom Office in the Netherlands.
“Thanks for your lessons, theoretical and practical and a very special thank for being so open and sharing with me in many interesting talks your own experience. This is worth a lot for me and I really appreciate your philosophy of sharing.”
The program
The program has been developed by Magda Verfaillie and Kasper Moreaux, directors of Mycelia, in close collaboration with experts such as Jürgen Kynast. This highly regarded engineer has a broad-spectrum scientific background in combination with extensive experience as a grower and a substrate producer of specialty mushrooms.
Details
- Mycelia’s spawn company in Belgium, our unique learning environment
- Training language: English
- We opt for a maximum of 18 participants because we can offer better quality with smaller groups
- 2.299,00