 On Saturday, March 16th, the UK Cooperative Extension Office in Pikeville is hosting a shiitake mushroom workshop. Participants can learn how to safely grow their own shiitake mushrooms and then cook them in a variety of ways. No materials are necessary and anyone interested can contact the Extension Office at 606-432-2534. Well, first we'll do, we raise shiitake mushrooms is what we're going to do. You will be given a class, we'll do a workshop with learning all about them, it shouldn't take real long and then we'll do actual hands-on. They'll inoculate a log and seal it and take a log home with them. It's a little pellet or sawdust that you just drill a hole, you put it in the log and then you seal it with wax and they grow and they're, most people love them, they're more of a delicacy for mushrooms and everything. And they're really easy to grow, you just have to watch the main thing, they will dry out if they're not in the right place. And they will not grow out in the wild, you have to inoculate them so there's no danger getting poisoned or anything. Do you worry about having enough money to last throughout retirement? Give Reed Potter at Raymond James a call. Reed has 26 years experience helping folks enjoy their best life in their retirement years. The mushroom growing process is quick and easy given the appropriate conditions. Once learning how to grow, it can be hard to forget. Very unique in that you use trees, you've got to have a wood base to grow it on and well some people can grow it on sawdust but usually it's a wood base, you're not related with either pellets or sawdust spawn or the pellet prompt spawn and everything and you just seal it up and put it in the right spot and you really just check it every now and then to make sure it's not dried out and it'll produce several mushrooms for you. Should it just call the extension office 432-2534 and tell them you want to be on the mushroom list. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.