Cultivate Mushrooms Like a Pro: Join Our Hands-On Workshop at Holy Shiitake

Are you fascinated by gourmet and medicinal mushrooms? Want to learn how to grow them yourself—either for fun, food security, or profit? Whether you’re a curious beginner or a grower ready to scale up, our full-day, hands-on mushroom cultivation workshop is your shortcut to mastering the art and science of fungi.

Hosted right here at the Holy Shiitake Mushroom Farm, Laboratory & Processing Facility in Honeydew, Johannesburg, this immersive experience offers more than just theory. You’ll work directly inside a fully operational mushroom facility—with no more than four participants per session—so you get personalized attention and maximum practical value.

🎟️ Booking is essential. Spaces are limited, and sessions fill up fast.

Why Join the Holy Shiitake Workshop?

Growing mushrooms isn’t guesswork. It’s biology, systems thinking, and precision—and once you get the hang of it, the possibilities are endless. Our training is designed to fast-track your success, save you time (and money), and help you avoid common mistakes from the start.

Here’s what you’ll walk away with:

🧠 What You’ll Learn

1. Welcome & Refreshments

Start the day with a warm welcome, coffee or tea, and get to know your fellow fungi fanatics.

2. Mushroom Cultivation 101

We cover the entire lifecycle of gourmet and medicinal mushrooms—from spore to harvest.

3. Facility Tour

See how it’s done in the real world. You’ll walk through our commercial grow rooms, lab, and processing areas.

4. Laboratory Overview

• Sterile workflow
• Understanding contamination vectors
• Working with tissue and liquid cultures
• Agar techniques and inoculations

5. Substrate Preparation

• Mixing recipes for different species
• Moisture content tricks
• Bagging and loading

6. Atmospheric Pasteurisation & Grain Spawn

Discover how to pasteurize without expensive equipment and learn to produce your own grain spawn.

7. Fruiting & Cultivation Techniques

We break down key environmental controls like humidity, FAE (fresh air exchange), light cycles, and temperature.

8. Harvesting, Processing & Storage

You’ll learn when to pick, how to process, and how to store or preserve your harvest.

🎁 What You’ll Take Home

When the day’s over, you won’t just leave with knowledge—you’ll walk out with real tools to kickstart your own cultivation setup:

• 🍄 1x Inoculated Grain Spawn Bag
• 🍄 1x Fruiting Block (prepared during your session)
• 🧪 2x Inoculated Agar Plates
• 📘 PDF Guide: “Mushroom Growing – Home & Farm Scale”
• 🧤 Sterile gloves and wipes
• 💻 10% Discount voucher for our online store
• ❤️ Mush Love stickers, of course!

🔬 Want to Go Deeper?

Ready to geek out with Petri dishes, clone wild mushrooms, or scale your operation with clean, efficient lab work? We also offer advanced laboratory training. Just send us a message, and we’ll send you the details.

💸 Booking & Payment Info

To secure your spot:

• A 50% deposit is required at time of booking.
• We keep group sizes deliberately small (max 4 people), so every session gets our full attention.

📲 Contact us today to lock in your session!

Real Skills. Real Fungi. Real Results.

Learning from YouTube can only take you so far. If you’re serious about growing mushrooms—at home, on the farm, or as a business—this is the hands-on training you’ve been looking for.

Holy Shiitake is more than a mushroom farm. It’s a living, breathing classroom for the next generation of mushroom growers.

🌱 Let’s grow.