PeddlerCon 2021: Growing Mushrooms & Mycology Insights
It's a lions made mushroom. It's a, instead of having a stem and a cap, it has these little icicle-like elongations. It's good for, uh, it's a medicinal mushroom too. It's good for memory, cognitive function, overall brain health, but when you saute it and cook it, it brings out a wonderful flavor. You can cook it in like a garlic butter to make it taste like lobster or crab with the same texture.
The coloring's natural, so these mushrooms come from different parts of the world. So these pink ones come from the tropical regions in Asia, and I believe the pink coloring is basically like a survival mechanism brought out by the mushrooms. From the ground? No, they could grow right off trees, right off the sides of trees, wood loving mushrooms. And then we have lion's mane, golden oyster, blue oyster, pink oyster, and we have some reishi right here.
Where are the good ones at? Oh yeah, somewhere or out there. I heard the lion's mane are really good for you. Super good, good for cognitive function, memory, focus. It can even like help with neurogenesis, like regenerating old neurons in the brain.
These are really cool. I want to try these guys. What would you compare these two? I've never seen them. Really unique.
It's, I would compare it to like the Mako. It's a foliota species. Unlike the Nameko, it doesn't have the gelatinous like substance on the cap, but it also, it has a wonderful flavor. Like when sauteed, it brings out like a nice earthy flavor with, uh, somewhat of a mild peppery afternoon. So it pairs well with a lot of grass.
Thank you, guys. Have a great one. Hey, how's it going? Nice. Pretty cool, man.
Thank you. And where's the farm? Four miles west of downtown, right next to Shamrock Foods. Next to Shamrock Food? Yeah.
So indoors? Two warehouses that are utilized to cultivate the mushrooms. They grow on like that? Yep, exactly. That's awesome, man.
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Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Right now, we have eight different varieties. So throughout the year, I grow about 30 different kinds of mushrooms.
Right now, I have eight here. We have golden and oaky. We have some Italian oyster mushrooms, which are really good. And then we have these wonderful chestnut mushrooms. Here's the lion's mane mushroom.
It's a unique teeth-like fungus, so it creates a unique texture when cooked. Then we have golden oyster mushrooms, blue oyster, and pink oyster, as well as some reishi mushrooms. The gold oyster have a flavor that's kind of nutty, similar to cashews, and it goes really well in like stir fries, rice dishes, soups, and stuff like that. The blue oyster is real mild, has a savory flavor, and it kind of just goes with anything that calls for mushrooms. Same with the pink.
How about YouTube? Yeah, I do Southwest Mushrooms. Dude, a picture flash up in my head of your YouTube video where you're standing with, uh, a grow bag. Okay, because of your you too, man. Thank you.
Hey man, you got a fan. You got a subscriber. Hi. Ready to get it over with? Yeah, man.
Fear of attraction. We got another attractive young man up here from an amazing company by the name of Self Wet Mushroom. He's the one with one of the best. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, my name is Michael Crow, and, uh, I'm the owner and founder of Southwest Mushrooms. We're a local mushroom farm based in Phoenix, four miles west of downtown, and we grow a wide array of gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. Throughout the year, we grow about 35 different varieties throughout the year, depending on what season we're in, whether it's hot or cold. And basically, I started the business about four years ago because there was really no, uh, mushrooms that I could find in the area, or no mushroom farms that I could even go work for. And I started growing mushrooms when I was around 16, really got into the research at 15, and it's been just a lifelong passion of mine half my life.
So far, and uh, yeah, it's just been really unique crafting this business, growing these mushrooms and providing them to the local community, getting them out to the farmers markets and any chef that wants to get creative with the mushrooms that that are grown by me, my team. Hey, listen, like, I gotta ask. So listen, I, I just found out about this, these mushrooms thing, because this is the world that I watched about mushrooms. I found out how amazing they are in all the crazy names, uh, pork mushrooms, absolutely. Give me the one, your favorite mushroom name.
Um, Parisian marinasius. Yeah, lion's name. Why is men's clothes? Yeah, I know, right? A lot of the mushrooms have like a Latin, uh, scientific name, uh, that usually people have trouble pronouncing, like reishi's known as like ganoderma lucidum of mushrooms.
Yeah, I don't, I don't get all of that again. Ganoderma lucidum. It's a reishi mushroom. It's a mushroom of immortality. It's been used by Eastern medicine for over 4,000 years, and it helps with the treatment of like cancer, tumors, helps boost the immune function, and cleans the body from a lot of pollutants that we take in just living in this world that is, you know, filled with pollutants.
Absolutely. I have a good friend that had actually some tumors in his intestines, and he was on a mesh mushroom treatment. Cleared all of them out. 15. So I'm going to be stopping over there.
Okay, Southwest Muscle Guy, appreciate you as a not only just as a smart genius man yourself, but also the business vote, but also doing something kind for the community. Appreciate it. Dang, I got like, every time I look up, there's like a couple cameras pointed at me, and then I looked up the other direction, there's another one pointed at me. Okay, what'd you think? It was sick.
It's fun. Thank you guys for coming, dude. Of course. Glad to be people. Glad we could be here, help you out.
I mean, I can imagine if you're here by yourself, either you would have been stuck here the whole time, or it would have been empty. And even even then, with like the three, the three of us, people are coming and we can like, you're talking to someone, you're talking to somebody. Yeah, yeah, it's, it was, it was well. Next year, we'll have business cards. We'll have, I think, even a better presentation if we have some lights that can.
This presentation wasn't planned. I know what this girl said. It's all winged. It's all winged. Wrap up.
Keep killing it. Yeah, let's just get out of here. Yeah. All right, get these, uh, first trip boxes out of thank here.