Oyster mushrooms on display at the Oasis Permaculture booth at the Potsdam Farmers' Market.

CANTON -- Local Living Venture will offer a Sept. 13 workshop on how to grow oyster mushrooms from a bag.

The "Oasis Permaculture Food Forest Discovery Tour," is hosted by Matt Bowman from 3 to 5 p.m. During this tour and hands-on session, Bowman will share practical knowledge about how to grow landscaping that is edible and requires very low input.

Participants will learn how to inoculate a bag with oyster mushrooms that can then be taken home for a future harvest.

Twice-certified as a Permaculture designer and educator, Bowman, of OasisPermaculture.com creates food gardens that sometimes deceive the eye with their integration into the landscape, with plant pairings for regenerative growth and ease of care and a basic concern for building excellent soil composition.

Permaculture is an agricultural method that integrates human activity with natural surroundings, to create self-sustaining ecosystems.

Visitors will get a glimpse into the planning and design of a low maintenance food-producing landscape and explore using underutilized fruit, nuts and perennial vegetables in a food forest setting. Edible forest gardens are edible ecosystems that mimic the structure and function of natural forests, while producing food and other useful products. The tour of this young food forest will include plant propagation techniques, profiles of various North Country-hardy "permaculture plants" and will showcase multiple mushroom production techniques along with a sense of how to integrate them into an edible forest garden.

There is a suggested donation of $27, $50/couple, $15/student. Partial scholarship (not including material costs) is available with RSVP.

To sign up, contact LocalLivingVenture@gmail.com or 347-4223 with the name of the event, a phone number(s), email address, and the number attending to receive an email confirmation. Other workshops are available on the "Workshop Schedule" page at www.SustainableLivingProject.net .