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
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
- 2 199 (excl. VAT)
The program
MORNING
’45: Welcome moment, practical briefing & introduction to the week
Introducing the team, the company, practical know-how and getting to know you
’50: Introduction to substrate production (Part 1)
Components, mixing, humidification, filling, bag closing, sterilisation, cooling, spawning, incubation, growing systems + Q&A
‘100: Introduction to substrate production (Part 2) + Q&A
AFTERNOON
’55
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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
What our participants say about the course
- 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
Teachers of this course
Jürgen Kynast
Pascale Vergeyle
Hélène Ntimba
Jan Van Nuffel
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 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.
Your course fee includes:
- A light bread meal every day of the course: bread with toppings, cheese, charcuterie, an egg dish and soup,
- Coffee, Tea, snacks, fruit, waters and juices during all breaks,
- Welcome dinner the first evening.
Other dinners are at your own expense.
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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Enjoy 2 intensive and productive weeks of course on substrate, wood fungi and mycelium production in our facilites.
You attend both of our courses in November and get € 449 discount (10% off in both courses!). Use the coupon code COMBO2024.