Grow your own mushrooms

Learn to cultivate your own mushrooms at home, and explore the word-class fungi collections at Kew Gardens in this new short course.

Oyster mushroom

Dates

14 October 2024

Time

10.30am to 1.30pm

or 3pm to 6pm

Location

Cambridge Cottage, Kew Gardens

Prices

Kew Member: £95

Adult: £105

In this 90-minute workshop you will be provided with everything you need to make your own oyster mushroom grow at home kit.

Caley Brothers will take you through the basics of mushroom cultivation and teach you how to care, store and get the most from your mushroom kit. You will receive guidance and an instruction booklet to help you though the growing and harvesting stages, following the workshop.

Accompanied with a behind-the-scenes, curator led tour of Kew’s Fungarium. Housing over 1.25 million dried specimens, Kew’s Fungarium collection is the largest, one of the oldest and most scientifically important, in the world.

A Kew researcher collecting fungi specimens from the Fungarium at Kew
Fungarium at Kew © RBG Kew
A hand holding up a hessian sack with mushrooms growing from it
Grow-at-home mushroom kit © Caley Brothers