You’ll have unlimited access to Mushroom Alchemy so you can work through the course at your own pace and revisit the lessons and resources at any time.

The course is designed for low-tek cultivation that doesn’t need expensive equipment or a lot of space- for equipment, all you need is a countertop and a kettle.
There’s an emphasis on recycling, and we’ll encourage you to find some things in your recycling bin, but to do the activities in the course, you will need to buy some supplies.
If you’re in the UK, you can simply buy a Mushroom Alchemy Course Supply Box from our shop when you purchase the course. The Course Box is an economical choice because it contains just the right amount of spawn and substrate for the activities, as well as some other bits and bobs that will be useful.
If you are outside of the UK or choose not to get the Course Box then that’s okay- we’ll provide the material list as well as information and recommendations of where you can get them.

Yes! When you enrol on the course you’ll get access to a discord server- an online community where we encourage you to share your learnings and successes with us and other students!

While we do briefly go into some outdoor growing techniques, the course is focussed on indoor cultivation.

Yes, anarchy is great, it’s certainly what the mushrooms would want

No. There are a handful of video lessons in the course, but the remainder are text and image lessons which can also be listened to as a ‘podcast’. There are also plenty of tables, gifs and illustrations for the more visually minded!

Yes and no. This course goes into a lot more detail than any of our in-person workshops but there is certainly some overlap, and good opportunities to consolidate the learning you have done at one of our in-person workshops.

Some of the text lessons in the  course are quite dense in parts and are suitable for scientifically minded and curious young people aged 13+. The experiments and videos however are more accessible and the experiments could be done by a child and parent together very comfortably. 

Yes. You can do the course and choose not to do all the ‘led experiments’ or you can buy the necessary materials yourself. We will not be shipping the boxes beyond the UK but all the materials should be relatively straightforward to source in other countries.

The course covers a lot of principles that are relevant to all mushroom cultivation, for example the needs of fungi and how to set up grow spaces. However a lot of the specific techniques covered such as the various waste substrates that can be used, or the use of household waste as growing containers is only really relevant to oyster mushroom cultivation.

A: We are releasing the course in ‘cohorts’ to help us with admin and to be able to offer our students a better collective experience but you are not obliged to start at any specific time. Once your class begins, you can start and complete the course at whatever pace suits you. However, the spawn in your box will have best before date so waiting several months before doing the experiments will reduce your chances of success.