Intensive Course

For those who want to learn more and experience the forest, sign up for our 2-day intensive course (in French) on 29 and 30 March. You can also join one of our low-cost summer excursions.

Course

Cultivation Workshop

Our expert will show you how to grow mushrooms on logs, in beds or gardens. The workshop includes a practical exercise. Participants leave with a kit to grow mushrooms themselves. A date: Sunday morning March 16.

Workshop

Excursions

Sign up for one or more of our summer excursions:

• July 13 and 27 in the Eastern Townships
• July 19 and Aug. 10 in the Laurentians
• Aug. 2 and Sept. 6 in Mauricie

Don't delay, places are flying out!

Excursions

Our recreational evening on February 27 is an excellent opportunity to familiarise yourself with local forest mushrooms and how to pick them.

Ideal for beginners, our expert will cover the basics of identification, precautions, edible varieties and how to preserve them.

In the morning of April 13, from your home or in our shop, immerse yourself in the world of morels! Biology, identification, cultivation and picking with biologist Judith Noël Gagnon (from our shop), experienced pickers Romain Chesnaux and Josée Kaufmann (both abroad). Romain and Josée have led several expeditions to gather morels in Western Canada.

Talks

Now available - Grain Spawns

Produced in our laboratory, we offer grain spawns of white, blue, pink and yellow oyster mushrooms, shiitake and lion's mane. These spawn make it easy to inoculate mycelium into another substrate and grow on a large scale. Perfect for mushroom enthusiasts!

For those looking for simplicity, we always have our ready to grow kits at home.

The entire Team

If you frequent the shop, you'll recognise some familiar faces: Anne-Rose, Dylan, Valentin, Ariane, Jasmine, Marion, Myriam, Pierre and Judith. The whole team got together on 30 December to share a couscous. The event marked the imminent departure of Dylan, who has been head of our laboratory for the last few years.

Think Pink!

February 14 is an occasion to show your love. You may be thinking of giving roses. But there's one species of mushroom that's an original and lively substitute for a bouquet: the pink oyster mushroom.

A perfect valentine mushroom, it displays dazzling colours. It's delicious to cook and a wonderful addition to a salad, for example.

Pink oyster mushrooms are easy to grow. It's a tropical species, so it can't withstand frost: if its too cold outside, our growing kits will be waiting for you in shop.

Like snow in summer

What are these white balls that adorn our forests from mid-July to the first frost? They belong to a fascinating genus (Hericium) that is distinguished by its stings and decomposes dead wood. Some have evocative common names, often interchanged.

Bear's heads', also known as “monkey's heads” (H. abietis) are found particularly on conifers on the West Coast.

American hedgehogs (H. americanum), other ‘bear heads’, and coral tooth mushrooms (H. coralloides) have long, branched hairs on deciduous trees in North Eastern North America.

‘Lion's manes’ (H. erinaceus) are the most famous congeners. Now mainly cultivated, these hedgehogs look like snowballs. Worth trying our own grow kits!