"I would love to bring my class here on a fieldtrip! I've been interested in mushroom growing for a long time. Reading books is not a nearly as helpful as seeing you. I hope I have a great garden this year."
"I loved detail in the demonstrations - actually did each step. Great food! Nice to have handouts on each topic to reduce note taking - Thanks"
"Awesome as expected"
"Appreciated variety of growing methods reviewed. Greenhouse classroom wonderful + food delicious. Whole experience was a delight. Thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge. :)"
"This whole concept is very exciting. Thanks Tradd, for the fun and interesting presentation"
9am-10am: Tours consist of:
• Lesson in "Mushroom Ecology & Life Cycle"
• Lesson in "Mycoremediation"
• Mushroom Trail Tour
• Greenhouse Tour
• Lesson in "Mushrooms in your Garden"
This intensive all day-hands on course will give participants the skill level they will need to provide mycoremediation services for devastated habitats around residential sites, farms, commercial properties, and superfund opportunities.
Participants are encouraged to benefit from attending our Mushroom Cultivation Workshop as a prerequisite to build a basic platform of knowledge necessary for this intensive program.
Tradd will be presenting three groundbreaking lectures at the festival this year:
MYCOREMEDIATION
SHROOMIN’ OFF THE GRID
MYCOBREWERY
Shroomfest explores all aspects of the fungal world, from gourmet wild edibles to medicinal ‘shrooms, from toxins to entheogens. Past speakers have included Dr. Andrew Weil, Paul Stamets, Terence McKenna, Kathleen Harrison, Jonathan Ott, Wade Davis, Mazatec elder Julieta Casimiro, Thomas Szasz, David Arora, Joan Halifax, Federal Judge John Kane, Sheriff Bill Masters, Ethan Nadelmann, Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Doug Peacock, Ralph Abraham, Dolores LaChapelle, Christian Ratsch, Kary Mullis, Laura Huxley, Taylor Lockwood, Rick Doblin, Lynn Margulis, Ralph Metzner and more.
The four-day event consists of slide presentations, lectures, forays, performances (dance, poetry, music), discussion groups, panels, a hands-on growing workshop, parade, movies, free identification fair, cook&taste, and numerous local restaurants offering gourmet wild mushroom specials. The San Juan Mountains surrounding Telluride are famous for their bounty of fungal species, with edible chanterelles and boletes often fruiting in profusion during the good years, thanks to summer monsoon rains.
Mushroom Mountain Farm Tour - Saturday
9am-11am: Tours consist of:
• Lesson in "Mushroom Ecology & Life Cycle"
• Lesson in "Mycoremediation"
• Mushroom Trail Tour
• Greenhouse Tour
• Lesson in "Mushrooms in your Garden"
Mushroom Mountain Farm Tour - Suturday
9am-11am: Tours consist of:
• Lesson in "Mushroom Ecology & Life Cycle"
• Lesson in "Mycoremediation"
• Mushroom Trail Tour
• Greenhouse Tour
• Lesson in "Mushrooms in your Garden"
Medicinal Mushrooms: Man’s Biological Allies: Friday, January 20th 7-8pm
Learn the incredible properties of many common fungi from the Appalachians that have been used for centuries. Find out about their effects on the human immune system and promising hope for developing protection and cures for deadly and pandemic diseases worldwide in this powerpoint presentation. Half price on Friday if you prepay for Saturday.
Medicinal Mushroom: Forest Gardens: Saturday, January 21st 9am-noon
Explore some of the most potent medicinal mushrooms and how you can grow them at home in your garden in this in-depth, but easy to digest class. Learn the cultivation principles and preparation of medicinal mushrooms for creating powders, extracts, and many other forms of fungal products that will stimulate your health and enhance your well-being in this hands-on workshop! PRICE INCLUDES INOCULATED MEDICINAL MUSHROOM LOG TO BRING HOME!
Organic Growers School: Myco-Forestry for Food, Medicine, and Ecosystem Health
Mushrooms turn death into life and toxins into safe food. Most plants can’t live without their fungal allies. Come learn how to work with the mushrooms for human and ecological benefit using permaculture techniques. http://www.organicgrowersschool.org/blog/12924 For Schedule, click here (PDF)
South Carolina Organic Growers Conference
Mushroom Mountain Tour - $15.00
9am-10am: Tours consist of:
• Lesson in "Mushroom Ecology & Life Cycle"
• Lesson in "Mycoremediation"
• Mushroom Trail Tour
• Greenhouse Tour
• Lesson in "Mushrooms in your Garden"
Mushroom Mountain Spring Cultivation Workshop I
This is a an all day event at the "Mushroom Mountain" farm in Liberty, SC, taught by Tradd Cotter. Lunch is provided. Includes instruction, innoculated shiitake log, and a fruiting kit. Participants will learn different methods to cultivate mushrooms, designing mushroom gardens, and composting with fungi.
South Carolina Native Plant Symposium
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
Mushroom Mountain Field Trip and Fungal Ecology
South Carolina Native Plant Society
7:00 PM - McAlister Square – Greenville Tech Administration Building
“S.C. Mushrooms: Soul Mates for Life”
South Carolina boasts some of the most diverse collection of plants per square foot right here in the foothills of the Appalachians. With over 90% of all plants associating with fungal partners, naturally the fungi are equally diverse and extremely important ecological partners. The cycling of nutrients, soil creation, and habitat renewal are dependent on the complex communication between our native plant and fungal communities, combined with bacterial interactions that harmonize and orchestrate stabilizing phenomena. Come and witness the wonderful world of mushrooms and how they will continue to thread their mycelium deeper into our collective understanding of our sense of place in the beautiful upstate South Carolina.
2011
Mushroom Mountain Farm Tour - 11/19/2011 - Saturday
9am-10am: Tours consist of:
• Lesson in "Mushroom Ecology & Life Cycle"
• Lesson in "Mycoremediation"
• Mushroom Trail Tour
• Greenhouse Tour
• Lesson in "Mushrooms in your Garden"
Mushroom Cultivation 101
Bullington Horticultural Learning Center - Hendersonville, NC
Mushroom Mountain Fall Cultivation Workshop I
All day event
Mushroom Mountain Farm Tour - 9/18/2011 - Sunday
9am-10am: Tours consist of:
• Lesson in "Mushroom Ecology & Life Cycle"
• Lesson in "Mycoremediation"
• Mushroom Trail Tour
• Greenhouse Tour
• Lesson in "Mushrooms in your Garden"
Asheville Mushroom Club Fall Foray with Gary Lincoff
YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly
Black Mountain, NC
Session 1: MYCOREMEDIATION: Man’s Biological Allies (Updated, ongoing studies, shovel ready projects, how to start a project, applicable species)
SSAWG 2011 – Chattanooga, Tennessee “Using Mycorrhizae To Improve Soil Fertility and Plant Health” Click here for more information (PDF)
2011 Organic Growers School Spring Conference University of North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina Session 3: “Mycoforestry: Mushroom Cultivation and Applications” Beginner to Advanced techniques. Cultivation, Habitat Restoration, Intercropping, Natural Methods for High-Yielding Strategies, Disease and Insect Vector management. Session 4: “Mycoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water”
Many species of edible fungi sweat powerful enzymes into the environment capable of molecular disassembly of complex molecules such as hydrocarbons, aromatic chlorinated compounds, and pesticides. Mushrooms native to the Southeastern US are also well adapted to filter, stun and destroy pathogenic bacteria that accompany failing septic systems, manure holding ponds, and even pet waste runoff. Learn how these mushrooms perform these miraculous tasks and how to develop a living barrier or filtration system that is customized to fit your needs. Talk will focus on biomass expansion, site engineering, and species of mushrooms that can be used for mycoremediation projects.
“Soul Mates For Life: Native Plants and their Fungal Partners"
In order to sustain life on this planet, a complex matrix of organisms has evolved to orchestrate the balance. Our very existence relies on the bonds between them. Plants and fungi have merged and performed sacred vows, and continue to unveil their brilliance and benefits of collaborating with nature. We have a lot to learn from these relationships, and understanding the respect they have for each other can teach us more than just soil biology, they can help us speak their language. Our native plant communities are communicating through their own internet, reaching out to other organisms to help repair the ecosystems that perpetuate life on this planet.
2010
Environmental Educators Conference “Awareness to Action”
Columbia College, South Carolina
“Magical Mushrooms that Transform Devastated Habitats into Environmental Edens”
One of many amazing programs at the 2010 EEASC Annual Conference at Columbia
College. Tradd Cotter, owner of Mushroom Mountain in Liberty, South Carolina, will
show us many of the amazing ways mushrooms are being used for natural solutions to
transform contaminated ecosystems back into their original states.
TREE IDENTIFCATION AND MUSHROOM SYMBIOSIS WORKSHOP
Thompson Mill Arboretum (The Georgia State Arboretum)
“Mushrooms : Man’s Biological Allies”
The Citadel – Military College of South Carolina
Biology Auditorium, 101 Duckett Hall at The Citadel
Charleston, South Carolina
“Fungal and Flora Expedition”
Tradd Cotter will lead the mushroom hunting and identification, Dr. Jean Everett from College of Charleston will include wildflower and tree identification.
Francis Marion National Forest, Awendaw, South Carolina
Oconee Joint Foray – Asheville Mushroom Club, South Carolina Upstate Mycological Society, Mushroom Club of Georgia
Oconee State Park - Walhalla, SC
Recycling and Composting with Mushrooms Wondering how you can help reduce pollution and lessen your impact on landfills? Learn how to grow edible mushrooms on trash you thought you couldn't compost! Turn cardboard, cereal boxes and more in to fresh mushrooms, then add your leftover "fungus farm" to your garden to attract worms and enrich the soil. Create a circular system that's a winner!
Mushroom Mountain Fall Cultivation Workshop
“Mushroom Cultivation for Everyone: Beginner to Advances Techniques”, “Recycling, Gardening and Composting with Mushrooms”, “Mushrooms: Man’s Biological Allies” - Click here for more information (PDF)
CFSA, Winston Salem, NC
“Recycling, Gardening and Composting with Mushrooms in an Urban Environment”
When space is limited and resources are seemingly scarce, this workshop was designed to maximize your garden space by using mushrooms to create food for your family and compost for your hungry garden plants. Come and learn some amazingly simple techniques to get you started!
2009
Mushroom Cultivation 101, Mycofiltration, Mycopesticides, and Recycling Wastes using Fungi
CFSA, Black Mountain, NC
“Mushrooms for Cultivation, Composting, Biological Filters and Medicines”
South Coast Native Plant Society - Technical College of the Lowcountry - Bluffton, SC
“Mushrooms for Cultivation, Composting, Biological Filters and Medicines”
Tricounty Technical College - Pendleton, SC
Cedar Hill Enrichment Center, Gainesville, GA
Food For Life
“MAN AND FUNGI: A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MUSHROOMS ON EARTH" & "MUSHROOMS: CULTIVATION, COMPOSTING AND BIOLOGICAL FILTERS" Sequatchie Valley Institute, Whitwell, TN
Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Chattanooga, TN
Magical Mushrooms that Transform Devastated Habitats into Enviromental Edens, The Citadel, Charleston, SC
Clemson Winter Lecture Series, Clemson, SC
Spring Cultivation Workshop 2009, Liberty, SC
Georgia Organics Conference, Decatur, GA
Mushroom Cultivation, Composting and Biological Filters, Due West, SC
Using Edible Mushrooms as Garden Helpers, Biological Filters, and Recycling Aids, Sanford Atwood Chemistry Building Emory University Campus
Metamorphosis - Middleton Place, Charleston, SC - Mushroom Mountain is exhibiting a garden demonstrating composting, recycling, and bioremediation using fungi and edible mushrooms. A lecture and workshop will also describe the garden and how to cultivate edible mushrooms in the garden and landscape.
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association Sustainable Agriculture Conference (CFSA) - Anderson, South Carolina - Mushroom Cultivation and Mycoremediation
Mushrooms can be grown on a wide variety of agricultural byproducts using a few easy-to–follow methods. Gourmet species can be grown on logs, wheat bales, wood chips, cardboard, and much more. Fungal systems can also be used on farms to filter contaminated water and to remediate contaminated soils. Intercropping mushrooms in the garden and creating compost with fungi will also be discussed.
2007
Mushroom Cultivation Workshop, Clemson University Mycology Lab
Gardening with Mushrooms, The Charleston Fall Garden Festival, Charleston, SC
Other venues included Clemson University, S.C. Department of Agriculture, Charleston Horticulture Society, the Medical University of South Carolina, The Audobon Society, the Nashville Lawn and Garden Show, and Mounts Botanical Garden in Florida.
