Pattaya School No. 8 has become the latest to take
part in the YWCA Bangkok - Pattaya Center’s project to teach students how to
grow and manage a mushroom farm.
Jetsada Homklin
The YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center continued its series of workshops
teaching students and social-welfare groups how to grow and manage mushroom
farms at Pattaya School No. 8.
YWCA Chairwoman Praichit Jetapai opened the Nov. 18 seminar. To get the school’s
mushroom project off the ground, the YWCA presented school officials with their
mushroom-farming shed.
The 24 sq.-meter garden lets the school harvest mushrooms to use in a variety of
meals from soup to vegetable stir-fry. Growing its own food also helps the
school lower its expenses.
About 40 students and community leaders joined the workshop, which focused on
cultivating mushroom spawn and how to process vegetarian mushroom snacks, sour
preserved mushrooms and jelly mushrooms.
Currently, the YWCA mushroom project is in operation at more than 30 schools in
the greater Pattaya area. She said the organization next plans to form a
cooperative to support all of those growing mushrooms.
