Themes of the Week: Laboratory Introduction, Set-Up, and Advanced Skills Experimental Design Planning and Testing Introduction to Chemical and Heavy Metal Toxicity of Soil, Water, and the Human Body Sampling and Interpreting data for Soil and Water Quality testing Land Reading and Site History Development Grassroots Approaches and Industrial Remediation Methods Screening Fungi for Chemical Degradation Capabilities Building and Testing Mycelium Water Filtration Units Anti-Desertification and Heavy Metal Sequestration Techniques with Mycorrhizae Liquid Culture Reactors for BioDegredation Organic Pesticide Development with Fungi Ecological Restoration of Damaged Landscapes Partnering with Plants Case Histories of Land and Water Remediation projects Project Planning, Collaborative Approaches, and working with Municipalities Growing Restorative Fungi for Resilient Ecosystems Social and Community outreach and Impact Medicinal Mushrooms and Self Care This is not just an overview: we will be cultivating fungi from start to finish, with a wide variety of species at various stages of development, and we will perform every step of project design. Activities at locations around Eugene, Oregon FertiLab: Fungi For the People’s Research Laboratory and Lab classroom is part of a larger collaborative working laboratory called FertiLab Thinkubator where we team up with other scientists for chemical analysis and experimental design collaboration. Other projects developing here are soil nitrate testing by SupraSensor, nematode research by NemaMetrix, and GMO Screening development and disease detection research by BTBiotech. You will have opportunities to engage these other project leaders about their work as well. Urban Mushroom Homestead: Larger sized projects and mushroom growing developments happen at our acre home property in Eugene. We will be spending time here with building up projects as well as working with plants and mycorrhizal fungi. This is where camping sites are available along our seasonal creek. Projects that we will engage with during the Course: Municipal Stormwater Filtration Project, Springfield, Oregon (Site Visit) Bicycle Shop Grease Remediation Project, Eugene, Oregon (Site Visit) Mine Tailings Site Restoration Project, Telluride. Colorado (Video Tour and Project Break-Down) Mycelium Insulation, Filters, and Structural Materials, Urban Mushroom Homestead, Eugene, Oregon Course Instructor: Ja Schindler is a writer, mushroom cultivator, gardener, intrepid independent researcher, teacher, community organizer, environmental and food justice activist. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, his concerns in post-industrial urban renewal, food security, and environmental awareness developed into a fierce affinity for bioremediation and fungi, now 12 years in development. Ja is the founder and director of Fungi For The People, a non-profit organization with the mission to help build resilient and ecologically enhanced communities. Since 2011, more than 2,000 people from all over the world have joined their hands-on course. From his research lab and mushroom homestead in Eugene, Oregon, Ja is cultivating a diversity of projects to support citizen science and ecological restoration. As part of the Mushroom Cultivation Design Center, he is producing cultivation supplies and mushroom extracts while maintaining a culture library of over 200 mushroom species. Other ongoing projects include developing an open-source mushroom spore bank; mycelium stormwater filtration research with Oregon municipalities; mycelium natural building projects with Aprovecho Research Center; mushroom Food Forest designs; and progressing natural technologies. Ja Schindler
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