Community Mushroom Educator Training (Cohort 1)
This course is the online portion for people accepted into the 2020 CME program and was taught by Steve Gabriel and Yolanda Gonzalez.
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For contemporary farmers and gardeners in both urban and rural settings, mushrooms can be much more than an emerging and lucrative niche crop; they offer communities opportunities to address issues of unequal access to land, infrastructure, and capital, which are all identified barriers to equity and justice in community food production
With support from USDA-SARE and USDA-AFRI, Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Cornell Small Farms Program is partnering with Just Food, Farm School NYC, and Grow NYC to offer a two-year Community Mushroom Educator (CME) Training that aims to build a cohort of 60 educators from urban and rural centers throughout the Northeast. Join our network to learn how to grow and sell mushrooms and teach these skills in the community you serve.
Through technical training and project-based learning grounded in Popular Education methodology and principles, CMEs will gain valuable knowledge and benefit from the collective experience of the mushroom educator cohort. Watch the short video at left to meet our team and learn more about this program.
This course is only for accepted participants in the 2020 Community Mushroom Educator Cohort:
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/mushrooms/...