Darren Le Baron's Shroomshop - Cornwall

Saturday 3rd May 2025

2pm-6.00pm

The Guildhouse, Poundstock, Cornwall, EX23 0AX

Darren Le Baron, gifted cultivator and educator of ethnomycology & psychedelic studies, will by visiting the Atlantic Fungi Coop farm on the coast of North Cornwall to offer his sellout Shroomshop: DIY Mushroom Cultivation Workshop.

Empower yourself to start collaborating with edible and functional fungi at the home scale with someone who has been an ally to the myco world for more than a decade. Our time together will be a hands on experience of the basics of growing mushrooms, including…

Mushroom biology & ecology
The ins & outs of diy growing
Creating grain spawn
Working with fruiting substrates
What to do with your harvests
Gathering your resources
And no doubt plenty of chat on how mushrooms have guided Human civilisation for millennia

The Atlantic Fungi Coop members will be leading a tour of their production scale growing and extraction facilities, and sharing about their vision, ambition and how they go about the work of harnessing the power of fungi.

Our friends at Orangutan Trading Co are kindly offering a free spore syringe to all attendees, and Mycopunks have you covered for all your cultivation supplies with discounts on a collection of items.

You’ll also be taking away a fully colonised, ready to fruit Oyster mushroom bucket.

We realise that North Cornwall is a distant land for a lot of you, and a beautiful place to visit. So if you’d like to build a trip around the Shroomshop we can put you in touch with various places to stay in the area.