Intro to Medicinal Mushroom Cultivation Workshops: 101 + 102

We now offer two cultivation tracks so students can choose the right depth.

101: Beginner Foundations

📅 Date: Sunday, May 31, 2026
⏱ Duration: 2–3 hours
📍 Location: MycoLove Lab, 1811 Lefthand Circle, STE B, Longmont, CO 80501

A shorter, accessible introduction to medicinal mushroom cultivation. This session covers the cultivation lifecycle, core terminology, beginner setup, contamination awareness, and how to think about growing mushrooms at home.

Tickets: In-person seat – $25; Digital seat – $10.

102: Full Hands-On Cultivation Intensive

📅 Date: Sunday, June 14, 2026
⏱ Time: 10a–3p MST
📍 Location: MycoLove Lab, 1811 Lefthand Circle, STE B, Longmont, CO 80501

This is the deeper applied cultivation workshop for aspiring growers, herbalists, and applied mycologists. Work with live cultures, sterile tools, substrates, and real-world materials while learning the practical framework behind medicinal mushroom cultivation.

What You’ll Learn in 102

• Understand the mushroom cultivation lifecycle from inoculation to harvest
• Practice sterile technique to reduce contamination
• Clone mushrooms and maintain clean genetics
• Create agar cultures and liquid cultures for propagation
• Expand cultures into grain spawn
• Build and inoculate fruiting blocks for home production
• Understand how cultivated mushrooms are processed into medicinal extracts

102 Ticket Options

Full Experience – $150
Includes the complete workshop plus a take-home cultivation kit with premium genetics and lab materials.

Workshop Only – $100
Includes full hands-on instruction and digital guides, without physical take-home materials.

Digital Seat – $50
Includes livestream access and digital guides.

Meet Your Instructor

Shane Schoolman

Co-Founder & CEO/CSO, Mycolove Farm

Shane Schoolman holds a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado Boulder and has been immersed in applied mycology since 2016. His work spans cultivation, genetics, extraction, education, and mycoremediation.

Reserve Your Spot

Spots are limited to maintain a high-quality learning experience.

🍄🌿 Functional Mushroom & Herbal Extraction Workshop

A 4-hour hands-on intensive with Mycolove.

📅 Date: Sunday, June 28, 2026
📍 Location: MycoLove Lab, 1811 Lefthand Circle, STE B, Longmont, CO 80501
⏱ Duration: 4 hours (10a–2p MST)

Learn how to turn medicinal mushrooms and herbs into potent, shelf-stable extracts using the same principles we apply in the lab, translated into simple, repeatable methods you can do at home.

This is not a lecture. This is a build-it-yourself extraction workshop.

What You’ll Learn

• How mushroom chemistry differs from herbs and why it matters
• Water vs. alcohol: what each solvent extracts
• How to design proper ratios, timing, and extraction strength
• Why dual extraction supports full-spectrum preparations for many botanicals
• How DIY jar extractions scale into professional methods
• What separates effective extracts from weak, overpriced ones

What You’ll Do

• Build a 1L Lion’s Mane extraction from start to finish
• Start a small herbal extraction for comparison
• See live demos of filtration, ultrasonic extraction, soxhlet extraction, and solvent recovery
• Compare real extracts by color, aroma, clarity, and concentration

What You Take Home

• Your working mushroom and herbal extracts
• A DIY Dual Extraction Guide
• A Mushroom & Herbal Solubility Chart
• An Extraction Log Template
• Access to all materials

Tickets: Full Experience – $75; Digital Seat – $25.