Made to order this season
Grain spawn, 6 lb bag
$39 a bag
Very early generation grain spawn, made after payment. Pick the species at checkout. No minimum, one bag is fine, US shipping included.
Order spawnBulk pricing and sterile grainSouthwest Mushrooms, Phoenix, Arizona
Spawn, cultures, tinctures and dried mushrooms, direct from the farm's founder.
Michael Crowe grew commercially in Phoenix from 2017, at up to about 1,500 pounds a week. This season: grain spawn and liquid cultures made to order, tinctures in 30 ml bottles, dried Lion's Mane, Reishi and Shiitake by the pack, and the books that hold the protocols behind all of it.
Card checkout on Stripe · No minimum on spawn or cultures · 195K growers follow the channel
Michael Crowe on the farm floor, Phoenix
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Four things you can order today.
Checkout prices, nothing hidden. Spawn and cultures ship worldwide with US postage included. Tinctures and dried packs ship to US addresses.
Live cultures
Liquid culture, 10 cc syringe
$35 each
Seven strains to pick from at checkout, no minimum, US shipping included. Agar plates, slants and master cultures are on the season page.
Order liquid culturePlates, slants and masters
Mushroom tinctures
Tinctures, 30 ml
$24.99 a bottle
Lion's Mane, Reishi, Turkey Tail and Oyster, batch number on the label. Tracked shipping to US addresses, added at checkout.
Order Lion's Mane tinctureAll four species
Dried mushrooms
Dried Lion's Mane, Reishi and Shiitake
from $19.99 a pack
2, 4 and 8 oz resealable packs. Whole dried Lion's Mane and Shiitake for the kitchen, Reishi slices for tea. Ships to US addresses.
See sizes and pricesHow the dried packs ship- Commercial growing in Phoenix from
- 2017
- A week at peak, about
- 1,500 lb
- Subscribers on YouTube
- 195K
- Species, one SOP each
- 8
The flagship book
Lion's Mane Cultivation
The species the Phoenix floor ran more than any other, written up as the exact protocol: recipe, sterilization, incubation, pinning, harvest.
- 6 x 9 paperback with full colour photographs from the grow room
- The master substrate recipe with moisture, gypsum and sterilization numbers
- Incubation, initiation and fruiting parameters with the reasons behind them
- Contamination, yield optimization, record keeping and block log templates
Paperback on Amazon$34.99
Printed and shipped by Amazon
Kindle eBook$12.99
Delivered to your Kindle
Digital SOP edition$29.99
Secure checkout on michaelcrowemycology.com
The shelf
Start with your species, or take the whole system.
3 formats from $12.99
Lion's Mane Cultivation
The species the Phoenix floor ran more than any other, written up as the exact protocol: recipe, sterilization, incubation, pinning, harvest.
2 formats from $79
The Complete Cultivation Library
Lion's Mane, Oyster, Shiitake, King Oyster, Reishi, Maitake, Chestnut and Turkey Tail. One protocol per species, the way the farm ran them.
Tools for growers
Free tools, built on the same numbers.
Each one points to the chapter that explains the method behind it.
Ask Michael
Describe the problem. Get the protocol.
Answers come from the SOPs, The Mushroom Grower and the grow room, with sources, and the one item that would actually help.
Where it all came from
Written on a working floor.
These photographs are from the Southwest Mushrooms farm in Phoenix.
About the author
Michael Crowe has been growing mushrooms for twenty years and grew commercially in Phoenix, Arizona from 2017, as the founder of Southwest Mushrooms. He documents his methods for current and prospective growers on the Southwest Mushrooms YouTube channel. Today he writes cultivation books, builds education tools for growers at Crowe Logic, and works on mushroom genetics and grow trials of his own.
Field notes
Cultivation field notes, every week.
What we ran on the farm, working protocols, and unfinished SOPs we want eyes on before they ship.
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Questions about a past order, a book or consulting? Contact or request a quote.
Not sure where to start? Ask Michael.