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We’re getting everything ready for our July 18 Mushroom Cultivation Workshop in Lafayette!

Over the past week we’ve been sterilizing grain, preparing hardwood pellet substrate, and assembling hands-on mushroom grow kits for participants.

Thanks to the generosity of our community and volunteers, Acadiana Myco is able to offer this workshop free of charge.

The first 25 registered participants will receive a free hands-on mushroom grow kit containing a colonized oyster mushroom grain bag and a prepared hardwood pellet substrate bag. (1- kit per family)

During the workshop, you’ll learn how to combine them so you can take your kit home and grow your own gourmet oyster mushrooms.

Whether you’re interested in growing your own food, curious about fungi, or just looking to learn a new skill, we’d love to have you join us.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Families are welcome, and no experience is necessary.

Workshop Details

📅 Saturday, July 18
🕛 12:00 PM–4:30 PM
📍 South Regional Library Auditorium, Lafayette

I’ll put the registration link in the comments.

If you’re already growing mushrooms, I’d love to hear what species you’re working with. If you’re just getting started, feel free to ask questions!

We’re getting everything ready for our July 18 Mushroom Cultivation Workshop!

Over the past week we’ve been sterilizing grain, preparing hardwood pellet substrate, and assembling hands-on mushroom grow kits for participants.

Thanks to the generosity of our community and volunteers, Acadiana Myco is able to offer this workshop free of charge.

The first 25 registered participants will receive a FREE oyster mushroom grow kit. During the workshop, you’ll assemble your kit by mixing colonized grain with a prepared hardwood pellet substrate, then take it home to finish growing.
(1 kit per family)

Whether you’ve never grown mushrooms before or you’re looking to expand your skills, we’ll cover:

🍄 Sterile technique
🍄 Grain-to-substrate transfers
🍄 Oyster mushroom cultivation
🍄 Tips for growing mushrooms successfully at home

👨‍**👩‍👧‍👦 Families are welcome, all ages are welcome, and **no experience is necessary.

This workshop is part of our mission to make mushroom education accessible to everyone in Acadiana.

Registration link is in the comments.

We’d love to meet you!🍄‍🟫👨‍🌾👩‍🌾

We’re getting everything ready for our July 18 Mushroom Cultivation Workshop!

Over the past week we’ve been sterilizing grain, preparing hardwood pellet substrate, and assembling hands-on mushroom grow kits for participants.

Thanks to the generosity of our community and volunteers, Acadiana Myco is able to offer this workshop free of charge.

The first 25 registered participants will receive a FREE oyster mushroom grow kit. During the workshop, you’ll assemble your kit by mixing colonized grain with a prepared hardwood pellet substrate, then take it home to finish growing.
(1 kit per family)

Whether you’ve never grown mushrooms before or you’re looking to expand your skills, we’ll cover:

🍄 Sterile technique
🍄 Grain-to-substrate transfers
🍄 Oyster mushroom cultivation
🍄 Tips for growing mushrooms successfully at home

👨‍**👩‍👧‍👦 Families are welcome, all ages are welcome, and **no experience is necessary.

This workshop is part of our mission to make mushroom education accessible to everyone in Acadiana.

Registration link is in the comments.

We’d love to meet you!🍄‍🟫👨‍🌾👩‍🌾

We’re getting everything ready for our July 18 Mushroom Cultivation Workshop!

Over the past week we’ve been sterilizing grain, preparing hardwood pellet substrate, and assembling hands-on mushroom grow kits for participants.

Thanks to the generosity of our community and volunteers, Acadiana Myco is able to offer this workshop free of charge.

The first 25 registered participants will receive a FREE oyster mushroom grow kit. During the workshop, you’ll assemble your kit by mixing colonized grain with a prepared hardwood pellet substrate, then take it home to finish growing.
(1 kit per family)

Whether you’ve never grown mushrooms before or you’re looking to expand your skills, we’ll cover:

🍄 Sterile technique
🍄 Grain-to-substrate transfers
🍄 Oyster mushroom cultivation
🍄 Tips for growing mushrooms successfully at home

👨‍**👩‍👧‍👦 Families are welcome, all ages are welcome, and **no experience is necessary.

This workshop is part of our mission to make mushroom education accessible to everyone in Acadiana.

Registration link is in the comments.

We’d love to meet you!🍄‍🟫👨‍🌾👩‍🌾

Curious about growing mushrooms? Whether you’re brand new or have been cultivating for years, come hang out with fellow mushroom enthusiasts at our next Acadiana Myco meetup.

We’ll be talking about cultivation techniques, agar work, liquid culture, substrates, troubleshooting contamination, and answering questions. Bring your own projects, photos, or just your curiosity.

✅ Free and open to the public
🎁 First-time growers receive a free mushroom grow kit (while supplies last, one per family)
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Families are welcome.
📅 Tuesday, June 30
🕕 4**:30–7:30** PM
📍 Lafayette South Regional Library large meeting room

Our goal is simple: build a local community where people can learn, share knowledge, and help each other grow gourmet and functional mushrooms.

Hope to see you there! 🍄

Curious about growing mushrooms? Whether you’re brand new or have been cultivating for years, come hang out with fellow mushroom enthusiasts at our next Acadiana Myco meetup.

We’ll be talking about cultivation techniques, agar work, liquid culture, substrates, troubleshooting contamination, and answering questions. Bring your own projects, photos, or just your curiosity.

✅ Free and open to the public
🎁 First-time growers receive a free mushroom grow kit (while supplies last, one per new family)
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Families are welcome.
📅 Tuesday, June 30
🕕 4**:30–7:30 PM**
📍 Lafayette South Regional Library large meeting room.

Our goal is simple: build a local community where people can learn, share knowledge, and help each other grow gourmet and functional mushrooms.
Hope to see you there! 🍄

A few photos from our last Acadiana Myco Open Lab here in South Louisiana.

We’re hosting another free hands-on cultivation meetup on Tuesday, June 16 from 4:30–7:30 PM at the South Regional Library in Lafayette.

This isn’t a formal lecture. It’s more of a community grow session where people bring questions, projects, cultures, agar plates, grain spawn, fruiting blocks, and troubleshooting challenges.

Topics typically include:
Agar transfers and cloning
Grain inoculation
Liquid culture
Spawn-to-substrate techniques
Fruiting conditions
Contamination identification
Gourmet mushroom cultivation

We have everyone from first-time growers to experienced cultivators sharing techniques and helping each other improve.

If you’re in Louisiana or the Gulf South and enjoy growing mushrooms, we’d love to meet you.

🍄 Learn • Share • Grow • Connect 🍄

Looking for fellow mushroom enthusiasts in Acadiana?

Join us Tuesday, June 16, from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM at the South Regional Library in Lafayette for an informal, hands-on mushroom cultivation meetup hosted by Acadiana Myco.

This is an open lab style gathering where beginners and experienced growers can learn, share techniques, troubleshoot projects, and connect with others interested in fungi, cultivation, foraging, and mycology.

Topics may include:
🍄 Agar work and cloning
🍄 Grain inoculation
🍄 Substrate preparation
🍄 Fruiting techniques
🍄 Contamination troubleshooting
🍄 Gourmet mushroom cultivation
🍄 General Q&A

📍 South Regional Library
6101 Johnston St, Lafayette, LA 70503
Small Meeting Room (located near the computer area in the center of the library)

🕟 Tuesday, June 16, 2026
⏰ 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Free to attend. Family friendly. No membership required.

Whether you’re growing your first oyster mushroom or have years of experience, you’re welcome to pull up a chair and talk fungi with us.

From Acadiana, for Acadiana. 🍄❤️

Looking for fellow mushroom enthusiasts in Acadiana?

Join us Tuesday, June 16, from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM at the South Regional Library in Lafayette for an informal, hands-on mushroom cultivation meetup hosted by Acadiana Myco.

This is an open lab style gathering where beginners and experienced growers can learn, share techniques, troubleshoot projects, and connect with others interested in fungi, cultivation, foraging, and mycology.

Topics may include:
🍄 Agar work and cloning
🍄 Grain inoculation
🍄 Substrate preparation
🍄 Fruiting techniques
🍄 Contamination troubleshooting
🍄 Gourmet mushroom cultivation
🍄 General Q&A

📍 South Regional Library
6101 Johnston St, Lafayette, LA 70503
Small Meeting Room (located near the computer area in the center of the library)

🕟 Tuesday, June 16, 2026
⏰ 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Free to attend. Family friendly. No membership required.

Whether you’re growing your first oyster mushroom or have years of experience, you’re welcome to pull up a chair and talk fungi with us.

From Acadiana, for Acadiana. 🍄❤️

HB 568 has officially been signed into law as Act 305.
I’m trying to understand how this will work in practice.

The bill applies to people who violate R.S. 40:966 through 970 while smoking, vaping, or otherwise consuming cannabis within 2,000 feet of a school, college, school bus, or school-related property.

But R.S. 40:966 also states:
“Any person who is a patient of the state-sponsored medical marijuana program in Louisiana… shall be exempt from the provisions of this Section.”

The penalty section of HB 568 provides for up to one year in jail and a fine.

So if I’m reading this correctly:
Medical marijuana patient = exempt from the underlying statute
Non-patient = potentially subject to the enhanced penalty.

Am I missing something, or is that how the law is written?

Last week Louisiana joined a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s cannabis rescheduling decision. Now Attorney General Liz Murrill has withdrawn the state from the case.

I’m curious what changed between joining the lawsuit and withdrawing from it a few days later.

Was it legal strategy, political pressure, concerns about Louisiana’s medical cannabis program, or something else?

Acadiana Myco returns Tuesday, June 2 at the South Regional Library Large Meeting Room for another evening of hands-on mushroom cultivation, open lab learning, and community discussion.

Last meeting brought around 20 attendees, with several new members starting their very first grows. Members participated in agar work, grain inoculation, substrate transfers, cloning techniques, and fruiting demonstrations while learning directly alongside experienced growers.

This meetup will continue our open lab style format where attendees can observe different stages of cultivation, ask questions, and gain hands-on experience in a relaxed community environment.

🍄 Topics and demonstrations may include:
• Agar to agar transfers
• Cloning mushrooms to agar
• Liquid culture discussion
• Grain inoculation
• Grain to substrate transfers
• Fruiting body demonstrations
• Contamination troubleshooting
• Beginner cultivation guidance
• Open mycology discussion and networking

Whether you’re brand new to mushrooms or already growing at home, everyone is welcome.

📍 South Regional Library – Large Meeting Room
📅 Tuesday, June 2, 2026
🕟 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Free and family friendly.

Acadiana Myco returns Tuesday, June 2 at the South Regional Library Large Meeting Room for another evening of hands-on mushroom cultivation, open lab learning, and community discussion.

Last meeting brought around 20 attendees, with several new members starting their very first grows. Members participated in agar work, grain inoculation, substrate transfers, cloning techniques, and fruiting demonstrations while learning directly alongside experienced growers.

This meetup will continue our open lab style format where attendees can observe different stages of cultivation, ask questions, and gain hands-on experience in a relaxed community environment.

🍄 Topics and demonstrations may include:
• Agar to agar transfers
• Cloning mushrooms to agar
• Liquid culture discussion
• Grain inoculation
• Grain to substrate transfers
• Fruiting body demonstrations
• Contamination troubleshooting
• Beginner cultivation guidance
• Open mycology discussion and networking

Whether you’re brand new to mushrooms or already growing at home, everyone is welcome.

📍 South Regional Library – Large Meeting Room
📅 Tuesday, June 2, 2026
🕟 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Free and family friendly.

If you’ve been curious about medicinal or functional mushrooms, Acadiana Myco is hosting a free meetup and presentation with Jordan Gros on May 19 at the South Regional Library auditorium in Lafayette.

We’ll have hands-on mushroom cultivation demos before the talk including grain inoculation and substrate transfers, then Jordan will give a “Functional Mushroom 101” presentation followed by audience Q&A.

This is beginner friendly and open to anyone interested in:
🍄 Mushroom cultivation
🍄 Functional mushrooms
🍄 Natural wellness
🍄 Gardening & homesteading
🍄 Community education

Free event. Family friendly atmosphere.

📍 South Regional Library Auditorium
🗓 Tuesday, May 19
⏰ 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

4:30-6:15 we will have open lab style learning and hands on cultivating.
🎤 Functional mushroom presentation begins at 6:15 PM

Acadiana Myco is hosting a free community mushroom meetup and guest presentation by Jordan Gros on Monday, May 19 at the South Regional Library auditorium in Lafayette.

Jordan will be giving a “Functional Mushroom 101” presentation covering medicinal and functional mushrooms, education, wellness applications, and the growing mushroom community here in Louisiana.

Before the presentation we’ll also have:
• Grain inoculation demonstrations
• Grain-to-substrate transfers
• Beginner mushroom cultivation discussion
• Open Q&A and community networking

Whether you’re into gardening, homesteading, natural wellness, gourmet mushrooms, or just curious about fungi, this is a good opportunity to learn and meet people in the Louisiana mushroom community.

Free and family friendly.

📍 South Regional Library Auditorium
🗓 Tuesday, May 19
⏰ 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

4:30- 6:15 Open Lab Hands on cultivation.
🎤 Presentation starts at 6:15 PM

Louisiana just introduced HCR 111 to create a Recreational Cannabis Policy Task Force to study legalization, taxation, licensing, public health, law enforcement impacts, social equity, and the future of cannabis policy in our state.

On paper, that sounds like progress.

But as a Louisiana medical cannabis patient, I can’t help but ask: why are we rushing to study recreational cannabis when the state still hasn’t fixed the medical program patients already depend on?

Before Louisiana expands cannabis access, maybe we should address the problems patients have been dealing with for years:

• No home grow rights for patients
• Extremely limited cultivators and market competition
• Some of the highest prices in the South
• Lack of affordable access for disabled veterans and low income patients
• No real patient protections for employment, housing, child custody, or firearm rights
• Limited transparency on testing and contamination complaints
• No centralized public database for product recalls or adverse reactions
• Delivery access still limited depending on where you live
• No caregiver expansion for vulnerable patients
• Monopoly concerns with vertically integrated operators dominating production and dispensaries
• Patients still fear stigma, arrest, probation violations, or losing benefits despite being legal under state law

Meanwhile Louisiana politicians are talking about “market caps,” “tax structures,” and “economic development” before many patients can even consistently afford their medicine.

The resolution even says Louisiana wants to avoid the problems other states faced like monopolization and inadequate community reinvestment.

But honestly… aren’t we already dealing with some of those exact issues in the medical program right now?

If this task force actually happens, medical patients, veterans, chronic pain patients, and everyday consumers deserve a seat at the table. Not just law enforcement, industry insiders, and political appointees.

A functional cannabis program should include:

• Affordable medicine
• Independent testing and transparency
• Patient civil rights protections
• Small business opportunities
• Fair licensing
• Home grow options
• Expungement and criminal justice reform
• Social equity that actually means something
• Public health education based on science, not fear

Louisiana has spent years calling medical cannabis “medicine.” If that’s true, then patients should stop being treated like an afterthought.

Curious what everyone else thinks.

Should Louisiana focus on fixing the medical program first before studying recreational legalization?

Louisiana keeps talking about budget shortfalls while simultaneously choking off industries that are already creating jobs, generating tax revenue, and giving adults alternatives to alcohol.

HB539 would have simply allowed new bars and restaurants to legally sell regulated hemp THC products like drinks and gummies. Instead, the bill was withdrawn and Louisiana keeps the same patchwork system where only grandfathered businesses benefit while new local businesses stay locked out.

Meanwhile, since medical cannabis and hemp products became more available in Louisiana, alcohol-related traffic fatalities have trended downward. That doesn’t automatically prove cause and effect, but it does raise an important question: what happens when some adults choose hemp products instead of alcohol?

At some point Louisiana has to decide whether it wants to:
• support local businesses and innovation
• collect tax revenue during a budget crunch
• regulate products responsibly through testing and labeling

or keep pushing consumers toward neighboring states and underground markets.

Adults are already using these products. The conversation now is whether Louisiana wants a safe, regulated market or unnecessary restrictions that mostly hurt local businesses.

HB 568 now heads to the Louisiana Senate floor.

This bill would create up to 1 year in jail for smoking or vaping cannabis within 2,000 feet of a school or college.

A lot of people hear that and assume it’s about trafficking, DUI, or smoking directly around children.

It’s not.

The bill specifically targets simple cannabis consumption in a very broad zone that covers entire neighborhoods in many Louisiana cities.

Meanwhile:
• Medical cannabis patients are effectively exempt if compliant with state law
• THC beverages and edibles are not included in the bill
• Maryland treats simple public consumption as a civil offense while reserving harsh penalties for actual trafficking near schools

That’s why many people are questioning whether HB 568 is really about protecting children, or whether it expands criminal penalties for non-violent adults based on legal status and access to the medical program.

The Senate floor vote is scheduled for today.

If you’re around Acadiana and have ever thought about growing your own mushrooms, we’ve got a free meetup coming up in Lafayette.

📍 Location: South Regional Library (auditorium)
🕓 Time: 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
🗓️** Date**: May 4, 2026

We’ll have everything set up so you can actually see the process up close:

Cultures, agar, and liquid culture

Grain prep and inoculation

Transferring grain to substrate

What healthy vs contaminated looks like

Fruiting examples and grow setups.

Around 6:00 pm we’ll also have a short presentation, legislative updates + Q&A.

It’s completely beginner-friendly — most people coming in are brand new. No pressure, just a chance to learn something useful and meet good people. If you’re interested in growing your own mushrooms, message me for details.