CRAFTSBURY COMMON, Vt. — The School of the New American Farmstead at Sterling College is offering a 5-day workshop this summer to anyone interested in mushroom farming.
This five-day immersion course focuses on mushroom ecology, basic identification, farm reproduction methods and cultivation, mycoremediation, and medicinal mushrooms and will be taught by Tradd Cotter, author of Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation.
Beginners and advanced students alike will walk away with the knowledge and skills needed to accomplish a range of personal or professional goals, including: cultivating fungi on small and large scales, incorporating edible mushrooms and beneficial fungi into garden designs, identifying wild mushrooms, cultivating and preparing medicinal mushrooms, and cleaning contaminated soils and polluted water through mycoremediation. The workshop is designed to empower and energize the activist within for the rapid implementation of learned concepts at home, in your communities, and worldwide.
This 5-day workshop is open to the public and will be held on the Sterling College campus in Craftsbury Common, VT July 20 – 24, 2022. Limited on-campus housing is available. Full tuition funding is available to support the participation of a Veteran in this workshop. For more information, email continuingeducation@
For more information on this course and other continuing ed offerings from Sterling, visit https://www.ce.
About the School of the New American Farmstead:
Sterling Collegeâs School of the New American Farmstead offers agroecological farming and craft food production courses that teach learners to sustain healthy working landscapes, nourish communities, and support food sovereignty.
ABOUT STERLING COLLEGE:
Founded in 1958 in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, Sterling College advances ecological thinking and action through affordable experiential learning, preparing knowledgeable, skilled, and responsible leaders to face the ecological crises caused by unlimited growth and consumption that threatens the future of the planet. Sterling College is home to the School of the New American Farmstead, the Wendell Berry Farming Program, and EcoGather; is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education; and is one of only nine colleges and universities recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a âWork College.â Sterling acknowledges that the land on which it gathers is the traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki people on its Vermont campus, and the Shawnee, Osage, and the Eastern band of the Cherokee on its Kentucky campus. For more information, visit:Â www.sterlingcollege.edu
–School of the New American Farmstead
Sterling College
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