Applied Mycology Immersion

Bali Myco-Intensive March 2026

Cultivation, Cordyceps, Mycofabrication, Extraction & Regenerative Systems

📍 Locavore NXT, Ubud, Bali

🗓️ Sunday 1st – Saturday 7th

💰 AUD $1,399 (all-inclusive)

A Living Classroom Inside One of Asia’s Most Sustainable Culinary Ecosystems

This is not just a mushroom workshop.

This is a full-spectrum applied mycology immersion, hosted inside the Root System at Locavore NXT, one of Asia’s Top 50 restaurants and a global leader in regenerative gastronomy and sustainability.

Participants learn next to the glass mushroom cultivation chamber, inside a working ecosystem where food, fungi, design, science, and sustainability intersect.

This course is designed for people who want to truly understand mushrooms, not just grow them.

What You Will Learn

This immersion covers mycology as a living system, from genetics to food, materials, medicine, and culture.

Cultivation & Commercial Growing Systems for Saprophytic Mushrooms

• Spore work, prints, germination theory
  
  

• Culture cleanup and stabilisation
  
  

• Agar work: spores, transfers, cloning, diagnostics
  
  

• Liquid culture systems and quality control
  
  

• Grain spawn theory and commercial handling
  
  

• Fruiting bags, log cultivation, and low-tech methods
  
  

• Contamination recognition and prevention
  
  

• Commercial workflow logic and systems thinking
  
  

Cordyceps Cultivation (Parasitic Mushroom Cultivation)

• Cordyceps biology and lifecycle
  
  

• Substrate and nutrition concepts
  
  

• Environmental precision and control
  
  

• Fruiting behaviour and quality management
  
  

• Commercial challenges and economics
  
  

Mycofabrication 

• Mycelium as a living composite material
  
  

• Substrate engineering for structure
  
  

• Growth control and molding concepts
  
  

• Drying and stabilisation
  
  

• Applications in design, packaging, panels and architecture
  
  

Equipment Building & Infrastructure

You will learn the theory and system logic behind:

• Laminar flow hoods
  
  

• Atmospheric steamers and pasteurisation systems
  
  

• Humidification systems
  
  

• Induction sterilisation tools
  
  

This module focuses on understanding how systems work, not just copying builds.

Functional & Medicinal Mushrooms

• Compound families and biochemical systems
  
  

• Species-specific functional profiles
  
  

• Mechanisms behind immune, neurological and inflammatory effects
  
  

• Separating science from marketing language
  
  

Extraction Techniques

• Water, alcohol, dual and assisted extraction theory
  
  

• Compound stability and degradation
  
  

• Yield vs integrity
  
  

• Standardisation and commercial challenges
  
  

Cosmetic & Topical Applications

• Mushrooms in skincare and cosmetic formulation
  
  

• Stability, compatibility and shelf-life concepts
  
  

• Clean beauty positioning and regulatory awareness
  
  

Throughout the course, cultivation, extraction, formulation and application are always linked as one continuous system.

The Learning Environment

All sessions take place in the Root System at Locavore NXT, beside their glass mushroom chamber.

This is not a classroom.

It is a living laboratory.

You will be surrounded by:

• Active cultivation
  
  

• Regenerative practices
  
  

• Culinary innovation
  
  

• Sustainability in practice
  
  

The environment itself becomes part of the teaching.

Culinary & Ecological Immersion

Your ticket includes a curated fine dining experiencel at Locavore NXT (valued at $250), allowing you to experience how mushrooms and regenerative ingredients are expressed at the highest level of gastronomy.

You will also join a half-day guided visit to a Balinese food forest, where Locavore sources many of its ingredients. This experience connects you to local:

• Agroforestry
  
  

• Soil regeneration
  
  

• Indigenous food systems
  
  

• Ecological relationships
  
  

Residential Immersion Experience

This is a residential course.

Accommodation is included for 6 nights at:

Garden View by Purely (value: $400), located close to central Ubud and the monkey forest.

What Your Ticket Includes

AUD $1,399 includes:

• Full applied mycology curriculum
  
  

• All cultivation, Cordyceps, mycofabrication, equipment, functional mushroom and extraction sessions
  
  

• Venue access at Locavore NXT Root System
  
  

• Curated Locavore NXT meal
  
  

• Half-day Balinese food forest immersion
  
  

• 6 nights accommodation at Garden View by Purely
  
  

• All lunches at the Locavore canteen
  
  

No hidden costs.

No modular add-ons.

One complete experience.

Who This Is For

This immersion is for:

• Cultivators wanting deeper systems understanding
  
  

• Designers, makers and material innovators
  
  

• Herbalists, formulators and extractors
  
  

• Entrepreneurs in food, wellness, sustainability or biomaterials
  
  

• Curious minds who want real knowledge, not surface techniques
  
  

You do not need to be an expert.

You do need to be curious, respectful, and ready to learn deeply.

The Experience

You will leave with:

• A real understanding of mushrooms as living systems
  
  

• Practical cultivation and laboratory literacy
  
  

• Extraction and application intelligence
  
  

• Ecological and regenerative perspective
  
  

• Community connections
  
  

• And a much clearer relationship with fungi
  
  

Limited Places

To protect learning quality and venue integrity, places are limited.

Once full, no additional spaces will be released.

Investment

AUD $1,399

All-inclusive.

Accommodation, food experience, excursions and full curriculum are included.

If mushrooms have ever felt like more than just organisms to you…

If you sense they sit at the intersection of food, medicine, material, ecology and culture…

If you want to learn them properly, not superficially…

This immersion was built for you.