Following our first fully-booked workshop back in June, Stockport Fungi are back, offering you another chance to join in this fantastic event. You'll learn how to grow delicious oyster mushrooms using recycled and repurposed materials. You'll take home your own reusable kit, allowing you to watch your mushrooms grow time and time again, saving waste from landfill and gaining an exciting new skill.

Fungi works wonders for your immune system, mental health, creativity, and mood. Perhaps most importantly, fungi are increasingly recognised as vital allies in the fight against pollution and climate change.

This workshop is suitable for beginners. You'll leave with the knowledge and materials you need to continue growing mushrooms at home.

About Stockport Fungi

Stockport Fungi was founded by Alex Williams in 2022. Having spent 17 years as a puppet maker for stop motion animation working with Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro amongst others, she decided to follow her other passion: fungi and mushrooms. She rented a disused building in Stockport, built a farm and was soon supplying some of the most renowned restaurants in Manchester.

Wanting to share what she knew, Alex began running workshops for adults and children and has since gone on to work with organisations such as the National Trust, HOME, Eat Well and the Proud Trust, to name a few.

Stockport Fungi workshops are designed to explore the extraordinary potential for good that lies beneath our feet and all around us. Fun and informal, the workshops aim to demystify, share and celebrate the world of fungi and mycelium, creating opportunities to experiment, socialise and learn something new.

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• Normally £35 and worth every penny, we offering this as a pay-what-you-can event to give everyone the opportunity to take part.