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Mushroom Medicine Making

  • The Forest Farmacy Grapevine Road NC, 28573 United States (map)

Gift yourself the medicine growing in our forests

Mushrooms have been used as medicine for millennia. Western science is catching up with the wealth of ancestral knowledge around the health benefits of certain mushrooms.

Take your health into your own hands. Learn about the medicinal properties of six key mushroom species, how to extract them and include them in your diet.

What you get

  • Access to Chris’s 30 years of experience growing and working with mushrooms

  • Learn about the medicinal properties of six key mushrooms from both western science and ancestral knowledge

  • Understand which habits these mushrooms favor in the Southern Appalachians

  • Learn which parts of each mushroom species contain which specific medicinal properties

  • Observe water, alcohol and double extraction techniques

  • Food is medicine. Learn how to incorporate mushrooms easily into your diet in ways that maximize their medicinal qualities

Chris Parker has been growing various kinds of mushrooms for 30 years. He created the Southeast’s premier resource for mushroom cultivation supplies - Asheville Fungi.

Chris is also deeply experienced in permaculture, organic gardening, regenerative agriculture and herbal medicine. He has gained all this knowledge from his ancestors, local teachers and through his own study. During this one-day masterclass Chris combines practical demonstrations, hands-on experiential learning, presentations and is available to answer questions about your specific growing situation.

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