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URBAN AGRICULTURE WORKSHOPS
Our hands-on workshops cover a wide variety of topics
(see our past workshops below).
Fill out our contact form with your request and someone from our team will contact you shortly to guide you through selecting a fun and engaing workshop.
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Join Co-op CultivAction co-founder nico schutte (they/them) for an afternoon of mushroom “planting”. Participants will learn hands-on how to construct a “lasagna layer” mushroom garden bed out of compost, wood chips, and/or straw. In addition to sharing how you can grow your own mushrooms in your backyard (or local green space) using mycelium grain and/or sawdust spawn; nico will also discuss the importance of the fungal layer for not only for yummy gourmet mushroom purposes, but also to help maintain and promote healthy soil webs and their micro-organisms.
Some mycelium sawdust spawn sawdust blocks will be available for purchase (one for $30 or 2 for $60) after the workshop concludes on a first come first serve basis to bring home to make your own garden bed.
Due to a scheduling conflict the date of this workshop has been changed from June 20 to June 23 (same time)
Nothing says “summertime” quite like an ice-cold homemade floral beverage! Come join co-founder nico schutte (they/them) at our Loyola farm for a homemade wildflower soda fermentation workshop. Has the idea of fermentation been a bit confusing, daunting, or a combination of both? Let’s learn together, hands-on! Register for our easy-peasy lemonade squeasy soda making workshop & kiss buying fizzy beverages from the grocery store goodbye! Participants will wonder our Loyola farm with Nico and be encouraged to pick (and connect to!) whatever floral soda flavor combination speaks to them. Maybe dandelion, or calendula, or why not both?
Materials to bring: a large glass or plastic jar/reused salsa container/milk jug to create your soda in. Be sure you can seal your container with a lid to prevent spillage on your way home (suggested size: 500mL-3L) & note-taking materials.
Join Co-op CultivAction co-founder nico schutte (they/them) to learn learn about basic substrate materials, suggested recipes/ratios, common nutrient supplements, pasturizing/sterilization techniques, and to will hands-on create your own mushroom grow kit. Together during the workshop we will inoculate the straw/coffee ground grow kits with Funky Fungi’s blue oyster grain spawn. This workshop is part III of the main three step mushroom cultivation process, but no prior experience is necessary! The “low-tech” growing foundation of this workshop simply means that Nico will focus on beginner-friendly and budget-friendly techniques without all the fancy equipment for you to to be able to grow mushrooms on a small at-home scale.
This workshop lead by nico schutte (they/them) will primarily focus on grain selection, sterilization, and inoculation techniques. Nico will also briefly cover potential substrate materials and pasturization/sterilization basics. If you participated in the CSU’s anti-consumerism liquid culture workshop, this workshop is part two of the three main steps of mushroom cultivation (liquid → grain → substrate/fruiting). This workshop is a simple introduction and walk through of how to create mycelium grain spawn for current or soon-to-be mushroom hobbists growing at home, no experience necessary!
Items to bring: note taking materials. Additional option: If you would like to pre-purchase a sterilized jar of grain (including a modified lid for mushroom cultivation) to inoculate with a liquid culture syringe during the workshop and bring home with you select this add-on option in the registration process. This is available for an additional $20.
Come meet us at the loyola farm for an afternoon of wildflower planting. Participants will learn how to create seed bombs and then distribute them around the Loyola campus’ green spaces together, in order to feed and promote pollinator activity among the loyola gardens. We are hosting this workshop in part by CultivAction farmer John Nathanial looking into how we could begin bee farming. The research he gathered displayed that there is not an immediate need to increase farmed bee populations. Instead, some Montreal beekeepers necessitate increasing the number of Native pollinator plants to feed the bees that are already here, rather than introduce and farm more bees. Help us increase native pollinator plant numbers around Loyola campus to help feed the bees and butterflies!
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