WMS EDUCATIONAL LECTURES-2017
Urban Ecology Center-Riverside-Milwaukee
​1500 E Park Place, Milwaukee
6:30-8:45pm (new time)

If you're not already a WMS member, you can register your family or individual for only $20 (annual membership) at the lecture. Cash, credit/debit card, check accepted. Cool WMS T-Shirts also available for sale.
The Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center will be hosting our lecture series. Plenty of parking. WMS Educational Lectures are always a great way to learn all about the exciting world of fungi and the impact on our world. Lectures are open to all members.  Lectures are held during the winter, spring & fall months.  Lecture run from 6:30-8.45pm. Click on Urban Ecology Center for Google Maps directions. 

Tuesday-May 30
​ Cultivating Edible Mushrooms
in an Urban or Rural Setting
by Steve Shapson
​President, Wisconsin Mycological Society

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Steve Shapson
If you've ever wanted to grow your own edible mushrooms,  you won't want to miss this lecture. ​Learn to easily cultivate edible mushrooms in a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation. Learning to grow Shiitake, Oyster and Wine Cap Stropharia mushrooms is easy at home outside. Learn the methods necessary to grow delicious and healthy mushrooms on logs,  wood chips, mulch or compost. Check out mushroom growing spawn, the necessary tools, and see a short demonstration of inoculation techniques which will produce Shiitake, Oyster and Wine Cap Stropharia mushrooms. Sample cooked Shiitake mushrooms. Wine Cap Stropharia mushroom spawn will be available for purchase at a reduced price $15.00 (courtesy of Fieldforest.net).This is the easiest mushroom to grow on beds of wood chips.​
May 26-27: 2017-Edible Mushroom Cultivation demo, tasting, presentation  at
The Ridges Sanctuary, 920-839-2802. info@ridgessanctuary.org 
June 3: Click here for information on a Shiitake Log Inoculation event Saturday June 3.
Click here to listen to WMS member Steve Shapson talk about mushrooms on Wisconsin Public Radio-Joy Cardin Show. 

Resources

Learn More about Mushrooms through identification and information pages by clicking on the link.

Learn more about the Shiitake Growers Association of Wisconsin

Learn how to grow edible mushrooms.

Identifying Fungi Books

More Fungi ​Educational Links

North American Mycological Association

​Fungi Magazine
 
Tom Volk's Fungi

Shiitake Growers Association of Wisconsin

Field and Forest Products

Funguys Gourmet Edible Mushrooms

Wisconsin Mushrooms

Paul Stamets Ted Talks

Pacific Northwest Research Station

Other great sources of information.