Masterclass:
Mushroom Medicine Making
Sunday June 29th, 2025 10am - 4pm
What you will learn
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 habitats 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
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.
Decades of Experience
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.
Topics Covered
Medicinal Properties of Six Species
Take a deep dive into the following mushroom species:
Reishi
Lion’s Main
Turkey Tail
Cordyceps
Chaga
Shiitake
Where to find them
Get an ecosystems view of where each of these species like to live in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. This will help you be more easily be able to find and identify them in the wild so you can forage them for medicine making
Medicine Making Equipment
You will get a comprehensive list of the equipment you will need to make medicines from mushrooms so you can get started with confidence.
Extraction Process
Through live demonstration and hands-on learning experiences you will learn which medicinal properties are best extracted with water and which with alcohol and when to use a double extraction process.
Food is Medicine
The medicinal properties of mushrooms can also be consumed in food. In this section you will learn how to grow out mycelium on grain and use it in soups, teas, and powders.
Join us for the day on our 30 acre forest farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains
This class is limited to 25 people.
And takes place entirely outside.