Collar City Mushroom Bucket Workshop
Join the Cornell Small Farms Program and Collar City Mushrooms at Indian Ladder Farms for a hands‑on workshop on oyster mushroom cultivation. This in‑person program will be led by Avery Stempel and Connor Youngerman and will introduce the fundamentals of mushroom production across several growing systems.
Participants will learn how to grow oyster mushrooms—the world’s second most widely cultivated mushroom—in buckets using simple, scalable techniques suitable for home, farm, or urban settings. The workshop will also highlight best practices, food safety regulations, value‑added product opportunities, and circular agriculture applications for specialty mushrooms in New York State.
This is a free event, but registration is required. Please indicate on the registration form whether you plan to take a mushroom bucket home. If so, you must bring your own clean bucket and note its size when you register. You are not required to take a bucket home. Substrate, spawn, and all tools needed to prepare buckets will be provided by the workshop hosts.
Coordinating email will be sent out a week in advance to registered participants
Questions may be directed to Connor at czy2@cornell.edu
