Gardening with mushrooms in the PNW Garden Club presentation

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Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, when we welcome Alex Winstead to share helpful advice for Gardening with Mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest.

Though often misunderstood, mushrooms can be fantastic companions to your garden or landscaping plan. Many fungi are allies to plants, enrich the soil, and provide a unique, delicious crop that you can enjoy seasonally or year-round.

The Pacific Northwest with its high humidity and mild winters is an ideal climate for growing mushrooms both indoors and outdoors. Whether you have perennial landscaping, a fruit orchard, a seasonal veggie garden, or a greenhouse, mushrooms can fill and thrive in many niches to provide you with a unique and valuable culinary crop.

We’ll explore the many ways you can successfully introduce mushrooms into your gardening plan and start harvesting the fruits of your labor at home within a single season or long-term with mushrooms that will produce for many years to come. We will also take a look at what it takes to grow mushrooms commercially and indoors for a year-round harvest.

Alex Winstead is the founder and owner of Cascadia Mushrooms in Bellingham, WA which grows and distributes nearly a ton of fresh organic mushrooms every week from Birch Bay to Olympia. In addition to mushroom, Cascadia Mushrooms also provides grow-at-home mushroom kits via their website at Cascadia Mushrooms | Organic Mushroom Kits.

This talk will be live streamed and recorded. You can join the zoom program attend by finding the link on Orcas Island Garden Club website.

Garden club presentations are free and open to the public.

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