Medicinal Mushroom Cultivation & Applications Workshop

A Hands-On Intensive for Aspiring Growers, Herbalists, and Applied Mycologists

📅 Date: [Sunday, Feburary 15th]
📍 Location: MycoLove Lab
1811 Lefthand Circle, STE B, Longmont, CO 80501

Capacity: Limited to 20 students

Mushrooms are more than food. They are tools for medicine, food security, ecological restoration, and innovation.

This immersive, one-day workshop is designed as your entry point into applied medicinal mycology, giving you the practical skills and conceptual framework needed to cultivate and work with mushrooms confidently.

This course serves as a foundational prerequisite for future advanced workshops in cultivation, breeding, genetics, extraction, and applied fungal sciences.

Why Take This Workshop?

This is not a passive lecture or an online crash course. This is a hands-on, lab-based learning experience designed to meet you where you are and build real competency.

• Hands-On Learning
  Work directly with live cultures, sterile tools, substrates, and real-world materials.
• Expert-Led Instruction
  Taught by Shane Schoolman, CEO of Mycolove Farm and MycoReach, with years of experience in cultivation, genetics, extraction, and education.
• Small Class Size & Individual Attention
  Limited to 20 students to ensure meaningful interaction, personalized troubleshooting, and real-time feedback.
• Access to Advanced Education
  Completion of this workshop unlocks priority access and discounts to advanced Mycolove and MycoReach courses.
• Ongoing Community & Support
  Connect with local cultivators and the extended Mycolove network to continue learning beyond the workshop.

What You’ll Learn

This 6-hour intensive provides the essential foundation for working with medicinal mushrooms across food, medicine, and ecology.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand the full mushroom cultivation lifecycle from inoculation to harvest
• Practice sterile technique to reduce contamination and increase success rates
• Clone mushrooms from wild or cultivated sources and maintain clean genetics
• Create agar cultures and liquid cultures (LC) for propagation
• Expand cultures into grain spawn for scalable cultivation
• Build and inoculate fruiting blocks for home production
• Understand how cultivated mushrooms are processed into medicinal extracts

What’s Included

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- Includes a live streaming of the workshop, and digital guides.

Cultivation Kit Includes

(Full Experience ticket only)

• Liquid culture of your choice (premium genetics)
• Myceliated agar dish plus pre-poured agar plates
• Sterile all-in-one grow jar, ready to inoculate
• Scalpel and sterile blades
• Parafilm, MycoBag, and polyfill
• Sterile glove box for clean work at home

This Is Just the Beginning

This introductory workshop is the gateway to advanced offerings, including:

• Advanced Cultivation & Scaling
• Mushroom Breeding & Genetics
• Mycoremediation & Fungal Ecology
• Extraction & Medicinal Applications

Students who complete this course receive early access and discounted enrollment in advanced workshops.

Meet Your Instructor

Shane Schoolman

Co-Founder & CEO/CSO, Mycolove Farm
Co-Creator, MycoReach

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.

As a USDA Organic, vertically integrated mushroom company, MycoLove Farm oversees every step of the process from cultivation to extraction, producing full-spectrum mushroom products using innovative techniques such as Ultrasonic-Assisted Extraction.

Through MycoReach, Shane extends this work into education and citizen science, creating accessible pathways for people to move from curiosity to competence in applied mycology.

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

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.

You’ll leave with:

• A 1-liter Lion’s Mane dual-solvent extract you made yourself
  
• A starter herbal extraction jar (herbs + mushrooms, side-by-side)
  
• Clear tools to design your own extractions with confidence
  
• Digital guides, charts, and logs to keep experimenting at home
  

No prior experience required.

What You’ll Learn (Fast + Practical)

• How mushroom chemistry differs from herbs and why it matters
  
• Water vs. alcohol: what each solvent actually extracts
  
• How to design proper ratios, timing, and extraction strength
  
• Why dual extraction = “full spectrum” 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
  

You’ll touch the tools, smell the extracts, and understand what’s happening, chemically and practically, at every step.

What You Take Home

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

Who This Is For

• Herbalists & home medicine makers
  
• Mycology lovers & citizen scientists
  
• Product formulators & curious creatives
  
• Anyone who wants to stop guessing and start understanding extracts
  
  

⏰ Details

📅 Date: January 18th

📍 Location: Mycolove Lab (Longmont)

⏱ Duration: 4 hours

🎟 Ticket includes all materials + take-home extracts

Why This Workshop Is Different

Most classes teach recipes.

This workshop teaches how to think like an extractor - so you can adapt, improve, and experiment with confidence.