Orders for Mushroom Spawn

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 2009-01-27 13:16.

High Country Orders for Mushroom Spawn from NCA&T due by Sunday, February 15

The shiitake mushroom spawn produced my NCA&T's Mycology Program is again being made available to commercial-scale growers (200 logs or more). To be eligible to receive this spawn, growers must have their logs cut by February 15 and their spawn orders also in by that date. Information and spawn requests from growers in Ashe & Watauga Counties can be sent to Richard Boylan, Area Agent for Alternative Agriculture via e-mail at richard_boylan@ncsu.edu.

The second requirement that any new growers requesting mushroom spawn for the first time must meet is attendance at one of the log mushroom production workshops being held around the state in the upcoming weeks. Sites and dates for these workshops include:

February 5
1 pm- 3pm Gaston County
Agent: Mark Blevins
Mark_Blevins@co.gaston.nc.us
704-922-2112 Gaston County Citizens Resource Center
1303 Dallas Cherryville Hwy
Dallas, N.C. 28034

February 10
10 am-4 pm Macon County
$10 Fee
Agent: Allen Durden
Alan_durden@ncsu.edu
Tel: 828-349-2046
Macon County Environmental
Resource Center
Lakeside Drive
Franklin, N.C. 28734

February 12
10 am-4 pm Graham County
$10 Fee
Agent: Randy Collins
Randy_collins@ncsu.edu
Tel: 828-479-7979 Stecoah Valley Center
Stecoah, N.C.

February 16
9 am-12
0pm Guilford County
Contact: Barbara Turman
Turmanb@ncat.edu
Tel: 336-334-7259 NC A&T State University Farm
3136 McConnell Rd
Greensboro, N.C.

February 20
12 pm - pm Burke County
Agent: Donna Teasley
Donna_Teasley@ncsu.edu
Tel 828-439-4460 Patrick Stephens
pbstephens@netzero.net
Muddy Creek Farm
3515 Seals Road
Morganton, N.C. 28655

February 23
1 pm-3 pm Gaston County
Agent: Mark Blevins
Mark_Blevins@co.gaston.nc 704- 922-2112
Apple Orchard Farm
640 Mariposa Road
Stanley, N.C. 28

February 25
1pm-4pm Surry County
Agent: Terry Garwood
garwoodt@co.surry.nc.us
336-401-8025 N.C. Cooperative Extension
210 M. Main Street
Dobson, N.C. 27017