Join guest INSTRUCTOR Olga FROM SMUGTOWN MUSHROOMS for a SPECIAL WORKSHOP ON MEDICINAL MUSHRoOms.
When: Saturday, February 1, 2025, 11 A.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where: CENTRAL AUSTIN
Donation: $45 for members, $75 non-members
Ticket price includes supplies for making 8 oz of medicinal mushroom extract. Location emailed to registrants.
Extracts and medicinal mushroom preparations dont have to taste bad, this doesnt make taking them for our general wellness as easy. Lets try something different! Getting creative with recipes and treating mushrooms like Turkey Tail, Lions Mane + Reishi as the ingredient to inspire a DIY, intuitive approach to making extracts, like vinegars, tinctures + oxymels. Learn ways we can tap into the seasons, for both our fungi we plan to use but also what's growing around us at farms, forest + even in our yards. Lets work with some classic combo of tastes and flavors but with a little twist. Together we explore and open your palate by mixing the gastronomic + functionality of fungi and their allies.
About the Instructor
Olga Tzogas started her love affair with Fungi and plants over 15 years ago, with the help and guidance of family, teachers and community. In 2011, Smugtown Mushrooms was started, which provides cultivation supplies to grow mushrooms, indoors or outdoors, for food or for medicine. Olga has taught hundreds of folks how to grow mushrooms, make medicine and learn about the glory of Fungi and the natural world. Alongside the collaboration of the collective, The Mycelium Underground, Olga helped create the New Moon Mycology Summit in 2018. She was a core organizer for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence and the MycoSymbiotics Festival from 2015-17. Annually, Olga returns to her ancestral homeland to guide small groups immersed in land based and traditional knowledge of the country of Greece, highlighting the fungi and plants there.