Mushroom Growing

Margaret Tagwira and orphans at Africa Univerity, Mutare, Zimbabwe

Margaret Tagwira, who works at Africa University helps orphans learn this valuable skill. The orphans are learning spawn preparation and they grow mushrooms on their own and market them for their salaries. Although only 16 and 17 years old now, they can make a living almost equal to that of rural trained teachers - just growing and selling mushrooms.

Margaret has already worked in Benin, The Gambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Choco in Colombia,Uganda and Zimbabwe. She can train people in spawn making, mushroom production, setting up of a spawn laboratory andcooking methods. She shapes her training according to the the environment of given communities. She has a procedure for rural people who do not have laboratories and one for those who have laboratories availalbe. Success of mushroom production highly depends on availability of spawn -yet spawn making is so technical that not everybody is suitable to be trained. She prefers separate trainings for potential spawn makers and mushroom producers. 

Some of our other resources on mushroom growing include ZERI, Fungi Perfecti, and Ecovillage Training Center.

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