Course Summary
Thriving Farmer Mushroom Summit
Introduction

Welcome to the Mushroom Summit!
About Your Host - Michael Kilpatrick

Mushroom Summit Preview with Q&A

Mushroom Summit Day 1 Recap with Q&A

Mushroom Summit Day 2 Recap with Q&A

Mushroom Summit Day 3 Recap with Q&A
Day 1 - Why Mushrooms?

Tradd Cotter - Pushing the Boundaries: How mushrooms are healing us, housing us, and saving our planet

Ryan Bouchard & Emily Schmidt - Foraging for Mushrooms: Best practices to find wild treasure while staying safe

Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures

Tina Ellor - Lions Mane: A deep-dive into this healing and tasty fungi

Jess Starwood - Celebrating mushrooms: Foraging and creating foraged feasts with mushrooms

Shadi Ramey - Truffle Mushrooms: Magic, Folklore, and Gastronomy

Erik Lomen - Mycological Innovations for Small and Large Commercial Mushroom Farmers

Gary Hopkins - Button Mushroom Production: Production on a commercial scale

Steve Gabriel - Mushroom Research at Cornell Small Farm Program

Charles Barber - Medicinal Mushrooms: 5 mushrooms everyone should know
Day 2 - Getting Started With Mushrooms

Adam Sayner - What Is Low Tech Mushroom Farming: How to grow mushrooms without expensive or dangerous equipment!

Tim Hensley - The Mushroom Life: Tour of an outdoor mushroom farm

Tim Hensley - Secrets to Log-Raised Mushrooms: How to start raising mushrooms on logs the easy way

William Padilla-Brown - CordyQuest: history, cultivation and uses of cordycep mushrooms

John Holliday - Innovations in Commercial Mushroom Production

Logan Keister - An Introduction to Mycoforestry

Willie Crosby - Profitable Mushroom Production: Starting Your Mushroom Business

Roger & Mary Winstead - Bootstrapping a Hoophouse Grow: A Farmer's Friend Caterpillar to Grow Mushrooms

Jordan Jent - Mushroom Lab 101: How to work with your own cultures

Drew Zimmerman - Low Tunnel Mushroom Growing: Exploring outdoor cultivation of gourmet mushrooms.

Day 2 Bonus - Drew Zimmerman Tour of Mushroom Farm

Jeffrey Kleypas - Keep It Safe: Food safety and raising mushrooms

Justin Langley - Stoller Spawn Method: Doubling your nutrients for faster, more robust spawn runs
Day 3 - Building the Business and Selling Mushrooms

Eric Jong - Don't sell yourself short! Innovative ways to make more income on your mushroom farm without growing more mushrooms!

Alex Winstead - Operating a Commercial Organic Specialty Mushroom Farm

Dan Miller - Mushroom Money: Crowdfunding for mushroom farmers

Lori Rice - Oh So Tasty: Developing consumer-friendly mushroom recipes to promote your products

Lori Rice - Make Your Mushrooms Shine: Tips for photographing mushrooms

Jessica Martin - Social Media: Creating basic graphics on Canva to showcase your mushrooms!

Adam Cohen - Texas Fungus: From startup to full-time in less than 2 years

Erika Tebbens - Success with Farmers Markets