Based in the town of Benito Juárez, situated in Oaxaca's Ixtlád area (more typically called the Sierra Norte, the state's major ecotourism region), Mico-lógica's mission is threefold: to train equally Mexicans and guests to the united states in the low-cost cultivation of a variety of mushroom species; to train in regards to the healing, natural and environmental (sustainable) price of weeds; and to conduct constant study regarding optimum climatic regions and the variety of substrata for mushroom culture.
The French-born Mathieu moved to Mexico, and actually to Huautla delaware Jiménez, in 2005. "Yes, coming all the way to Mexico from France to pursue my curiosity about mushrooms seems like a considerable ways to travel," Mathieu explained in a recent meeting in Oaxaca. "But there actually wasn't a lot of a way dcThc near me to perform studies and grow a company in Western Europe," he remains, "because reverence for weeds had been all but fully eradicated by The Church over the course of centuries; and I found that Mexico still keeps a regard and appreciation for the healing and natural value of hongos. Mexico is definately not mycophobic."
Huautla delaware Jiménez is greater than a five time push from the closest metropolitan center. Consequently, Mathieu eventually realized that remaining in Huautla, while holding an ancient allure and being in a regional place favorable to working together with mushrooms, could hinder his attempts to cultivate a business and cultivate widespread interest in learning about fungi. Mathieu became mindful of the strong standing of Oaxaca's ecotourism communities of the Sierra Norte, and certainly the Feria Local de Hongos Silvestres (regional crazy mushroom festival), held annually in Cuahimoloyas.
Mathieu met Josefina Jiménez at the summer week-end mushroom event. Jiménez had moved to Oaxaca from hometown Mexico Town in 2002. The 2 provided similar pursuits; Jiménez had studied agronomy, and for close to a decade have been working together with sustainable agriculture jobs in rural farming communities in the Huasteca Potosina area of San Luis Potosí, the mountains of Guerrero and the coast of Chiapas. Mathieu and Jiménez turned company, and then life associates in Benito Juárez.
Mathieu and Jiménez are focusing on three mushroom species within their hands-on seminars; oyster (seta), shitake and reishi. Their one-day workshops are for oyster mushrooms, and two-day centers for the latter two species of fungus. "With reishi, and to a lesser extent shitake, we're also teaching a fair bit about the therapeutic uses of weeds, so more time is needed," claims Mathieu, "and with oyster weeds it's predominantly but perhaps not exclusively a course on cultivation."
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