 I'm a lead park ranger with the City of Columbia and welcome to Destination Hometown. So our event is on March 10th at one o'clock here at the Red School House at Riverfront Park at 312 Laurel Street and what I'm going to do is give you a little bit of background and knowledge on the history of shiitake mushroom cultivation and that we're going to quickly cover a few topics such as selection of spawn, selection of substrates and after that very brief classroom instruction we're going to get hands-on. Each participant will get a mushroom log at the end of our event to take home and the class is limited to 20 people unfortunately to register because I asked for a pre-registration if you could please email me at BLWilt that's WILDT at ColumbiaSC.net and I will go ahead and get back to you on that and get you registered for our program. All materials are provided for you I'll have a couple of handouts for the care of your mushroom log takes approximately six to nine months before you actually get the mushrooms themselves. I would hope that people would gather an appreciation for providing for themselves in a sustainable way and as I mentioned once your mushroom log has completed its life cycle over a few years it naturally breaks down the material and it's suitable for use in your garden. Register by sending me an email that's BLB as in boy L as in Lucy Wilt WILDT at ColumbiaSC.net I'm Benjamin Wiltz a lead park ranger here with the City of Columbia please come out and join us on March 10th Saturday at 1 p.m. here at the Red Schoolhouse at 312 Laurel Street Riverfront Park most beautiful park in Columbia.