Substrate & Wood Fungi Production course
All you need to know about the production of substrates and lignicolous mushrooms
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?
December 2024, March 2025
2 199 (excl. VAT)
Deinze, Belgium
The course
The course has been developed by Magda Verfaillie and Kasper Moreaux, directors of Mycelia, in close collaboration with their team and 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
- Better quality with smaller groups: we opt for a maximum of 18 participants (minimum 12)
- 2 199 (excl. VAT)
The program
Morning | ’45 | Welcome moment, practical briefing & introduction to the week Introducing the team, the companies, practical know-how and getting to know you |
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’50 | Introduction to substrate production (Part 1) + Q&A |
‘100 | Introduction to substrate production (Part 2) + Q&A |
Afternoon | Parallel Practical Sessions: Substrate composition |
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’55 | Group 1 |
’55 | Group 2 |
’55 | Group 3 |
’30 | Q&A on the day |
Evening visit to Ghent |
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Enjoy 2 intensive and productive weeks of course on substrate, wood fungi and mycelium production in our facilites.
What will you learn
- A solid introduction to substrate production
- The importance of spawn quality in your production
- Building techniques such as water supply, energy efficiency, …
- The necessary fundamentals of biology for substrate producers like you
- How to deal with micro-organisms in your production
- How to design a proper substrate formulation?
- Pasteurisation process: theory and practice, advantages and disadvantages for your process flow
- A much needed technical view on cooling and heating
- A biological approach of different production stages : incubation, ripening, fructification
Meet our experts
A team of skilled experts with years of experience in highly professional European and international companies.
Jürgen Kynast
Pascale Vergeyle
Hélène Ntimba
Jan Van Nuffel
Mohammad Al Shukor
Christelle Chevalier
Roel Van de Heyning
Magda Verfaillie
Kasper Moreaux
Orazio Tietto
Frederik Cruyt
Extra information
We recommend the Cleythil Hotel.
Location
Just outside Maldegem, 20 km from Mycelia Academy in Deinze, you will find the most welcoming Cleythil Hotel. The spacious garden offers you a magnificent view on the green fields and woods of Drongengoed. From a strategic point of view, Cleythil Hotel benefits an unique location. Just a 20-minute drive from historic Bruges and less than 30 minutes from the beautiful historic Ghent you make the finest day trips.
Rooms
The rooms are contemporary and comfortable with 32-inch HD flat-screen digital tv, free wired internet, a tea/coffee maker and a sitting are. All these elements make the rooms complete. A varied buffet breakfast is served each morning. You can submit a request for a gluten-free breakfast. (To be requested in advance.)
Price
The price per night for a single room is € 89 per person, breakfast included.
You can book this accommodation directly with us as a free service. During the registration process you can select whether you want to use this service or not. After the booking is done with us, you will get an invoice from the hotel to pay for the amount of nights you are staying.
Free Wi-Fi is available in the entire hotel. You can relax in the outdoor sauna and you can enjoy a drink in the bar or on the terrace. Papinglo Restaurant, with open kitchen, offers you a culinary à la carte menu.
There is free parking at the hotel. With our rental bicycles you can explore the beautiful surroundings, and in half an hour by car you reach our nice Belgian coast.
A late check-in is possible. After 10 p.m. guests can enter through the sliding door, and to the right on the wall they will find an envelope with their name on it. In it is their key. With this key they can enter the hotel as well as their room.
The hotel will also make you an invoice for the number of nights requested. The price per night is € 89/person, breakfast included.
Cancellations and prepayment conditions
For cancellation up to 3 days before arrival date, no fee will be charged for the reserved room; for multi-room reservation, this condition applies up to max 2 rooms. For cancellation up to 1 day before arrival date, 50% of the total reservation will be charged and for cancellation the day itself or no-show, the total reservation will be charged.
Your course fee includes:
- A light bread meal every day of the course: bread with toppings, cheese, charcuterie and soup,
- Coffee, Tea, snacks, fruit, waters and juices during all breaks,
- Welcome dinner the first evening.
Other dinners are at your own expense.
How to travel to Mycelia Academy?
Do you take the train after arriving at the airport?
Shuttle Service for hotel to Mycelia transportation
Since the hotel is located in Maldegem, about 20km from Mycelia, we are pleased to inform you that a shuttle service has been arranged to conveniently transport you between your hotel in Maldegem and Mycelia Academy.
The shuttle will operate in the morning and evening, ensuring timely transportation for your courses.
The shuttle service is available at € 75 per person per course week. The shuttle service fee will be billed directly by Mycelia Academy.
Please note that while we offer this shuttle service for your convenience, you are also free to arrange your own accommodation and transportation if you prefer.
No, we can not teach you how to grow White Button Mushrooms! For Agaricus bisporus courses, check out Mushroom Office in the Netherlands.
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