Books and tools for growers, from a commercial floor.
Southwest Mushrooms grew mushrooms commercially in Phoenix from 2017, at up to 1,500 pounds a week. Today Michael Crowe writes the books and protocols from that floor, builds education tools for growers, and works on mushroom genetics and grow trials of his own.
- Phoenix, ArizonaCommercial floor from 2017
- 20 years growingBooks, tools, genetics
- Floor testedReal protocols, in print
- Instant deliveryDigital titles, instant access
What Michael works on now.
The written method.
The Mushroom Grower and the species SOPs, written from the protocols the Phoenix farm ran on.
Answers grounded in the protocols.
Ask Michael and the Crowe Logic app answer cultivation questions against the same protocols the books teach.
Still growing.
Michael works on mushroom genetics and grow trials of his own. Live cultures and spawn are not for sale.
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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.
Every title traces back to this room.
Sterile lab, pressure sterilizer, production blocks, and grow rooms that ran 35+ species. Photos are from the Phoenix facility, not stock.
The documents our farm actually ran on.
Every species we grew ran off a written SOP: lab to first harvest, fruiting and fresh-air control, quality grading, and the yield economics that tell you whether a room pays for itself. One for each species, written by Michael Crowe from this production floor. Lion's Mane, Shiitake, Oyster, King Oyster, Reishi, Maitake, Chestnut, and Turkey Tail.
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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The Mushroom Grower
The full cultivation system: lab setup, grain spawn, substrate, fruiting, business operations, SOPs, and both audiobooks. Written from the production work behind the Phoenix farm.
The Crowe Logic app
Sign in with Crowe ID and put cultivation questions to models grounded in the same protocols taught in The Mushroom Grower.
The protocols behind the products.
Michael Crowe documents this farm's species protocols as commercial SOPs: substrate recipes, fruiting parameters, yield benchmarks, and the troubleshooting you only learn from thousands of production blocks. They live on his own site, alongside the flow hood build plans.
Facility consulting and custom requests.
Facility consulting, build plans, and custom requests. Tell us what you need; Michael replies within one business day.
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Digital library · worldwide · instant
Our digital library downloads anywhere in the world the moment you check out: The Mushroom Grower Volumes 1 and 2 in PDF and EPUB, the audiobooks, and the complete bundle. No shipping, no customs, no wait. Prices are in US dollars and your card converts automatically.
Outside the United States
Every title here is digital and delivers anywhere the moment you pay. Live cultures and spawn are no longer sold. For the written protocols behind them, see the species SOPs at Michael Crowe Mycology.