The municipality of A Pobra do Brollón is organizing an introductory day to mushroom cultivation. The activity will take place on April 29th at the “Olga Novo” culture house starting at 9:30 am and will last 4 hours. Places are limited and to participate it is necessary to register before the 25th at the municipality offices and pay the €25 registration fee. Carlos Pérez Álvarez, Senior Technician in the Management and Organization of Natural and Landscape Resources, will be in charge of the day in which the following contents will be covered:
Differentiation of mushrooms according to their nutrition.- How to grow mushrooms at home, what mushrooms will we grow and in what way.
- What are the best times for cultivation?
- How to grow on wooden logs and in bags of substrate.
- What are the most suitable woods for each mushroom?
- How to prepare the culture substrates and where to mature the mycelium.
- How to inoculate the seeds in the substrates and in the logs.
- How to make mushrooms fruit and harvest them.
Differentiation of mushrooms according to their nutrition.The practical part of the workshop, in which all attendees will participate, will consist of inoculating mushroom seeds.“shitake” and “oyster mushroom”. It will be made from chestnut and poplar logs.
At the end, a bag of seeds will be distributed among all attendees.“oyster mushroom” and a bag of seeds of “shitake”.
