Books, tools, and genetics from a production floor.
Southwest Mushrooms grew commercial culinary and functional mushrooms in Phoenix from 2017, at up to 1,500 pounds a week. Today Michael writes the books and protocols from that floor, builds education tools for growers, and works on mushroom genetics and grow trials of his own.
Books, education tools, genetics, and grow trials.
Michael has been growing mushrooms for twenty years. Today he writes cultivation books, builds education tools for growers at Crowe Logic, and works on mushroom genetics and grow trials of his own. Live cultures and spawn are no longer sold.
The Crowe Logic app at mycology.crowelogic.com answers cultivation questions against the same protocols documented in The Mushroom Grower. The books and the software share one source: that production floor.
Everything sold here ran on the floor.
Founded by Michael Crowe in Phoenix, Arizona, Southwest Mushrooms grew Lion's Mane, oyster varieties, and functional species commercially from 2017. The tinctures were made from fruit grown on that floor. The books, audiobooks, and SOPs are written from the protocols we used, not commissioned for the page.
Built for sterile work at volume.
Two HEPA flow stations, an industrial pressure sterilizer, and a culture library that ran Lion's Mane, oysters, Reishi, Maitake, Turkey Tail, Chestnut, and more. The lab was the bottleneck for everything else; it is also where the protocols were written.
Commercial blocks, every day, from 2017.
Substrate was mixed, bagged, and sterilized on site. Production blocks were inoculated from the lab's liquid cultures and tracked from spawn to harvest. The tinctures came out of those rooms, and so did the SOPs.
35+ species under one roof.
Multiple climate-controlled rooms tuned per species. Shiitake on bare blocks, Lion's Mane in cascading pin sets, oysters running cluster after cluster. Every photo on this site is from those rooms, not stock.
Consulting, custom requests, or facility questions?
The fastest way to a quote is the request form. Reference what you need; Michael replies within one business day.