Farming mushrooms for Slow Food, medicine, bioremediation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2012
- Ian Garrone started Far West Fungi- out of his garage- 25 years ago to introduce America to the wide variety of edible fungi. Today, the Garrone family farm 60,000 square feet of greenhouses filled with organic, sawdust-based mushrooms.
They sell over 40 different types of mushrooms at their San Francisco store, a relatively rare offering, given that button mushrooms account for about 87% of all domestic mushroom sales.
Garrone believes that mushrooms can add balance to your diet, serving as an ideal meat substitute. Mushrooms that grow on trees (the type grown at the Far West Fungi farm) are also considered medicinal.
Garrone didn't get into the business to help save the world, but somehow he's managed to help save his corner of the world. After San Francisco's last oil spill he helped provide an indigenous strain of oyster mushroom to a bioremediation project.
In the past few years, mushrooms- and the vegetative part of the fungus, mycelium- have been elevated from the underworld. According to mushroom guru Paul Stamets, they’re capable of saving the world, in at least 6 different ways (see his TED talk or his book Mycelium Running: Growing Mushrooms to Heal People and Planet).
He, and others, claim they’re capable of “mycorestoration” (cleaning up the environment), “mycopesticides” (organic bug killers), “mycofiltration” (silting chemicals from water), breaking down nerve gases, neutralizing smallpox, and replacing plastics.
One farmer takes on the American fungi diet
Ian Garrone runs 60,000 square feet of greenhouses filled with organic, sawdust-based mushrooms (“what in nature grow on trees”: the sawdust allows them to harvest mushrooms on a weekly basis). He started Far West Fungi- out of his garage- 25 years ago not to save the world, but to introduce America to the wide variety of edible fungi.
Today, the Garrone family sells over 40 different types of mushrooms (at their store in San Francisco), a relatively rare offering, given that button mushrooms (those white ones you buy in a can) account for about 87% of all domestic mushroom sales (2001, U.S. Department of Agriculture). Ian’s philosophy of preserving and promoting culinary diversity falls right in line with that of the Slow Food movement so it’s fairly natural that he’s worked closely with the local chapter.
Garrone also believes that mushrooms can add balance to your diet, partly due to what they replace. The fleshy texture of some of the mushrooms he grows makes mushrooms an ideal meat substitute.
Mushrooms as medicine
Mushrooms that grow on trees (the ones grown at the Far West Fungi farm) are also considered medicinal. "The reason is the organism, the fungi, which breaks things down- that's what it naturally does- breaks down these hard sugars in the hardwood. In breaking them down the organism produces mushrooms that are very high in complex sugars called polysaccharides which our bodies use to fight diseases."
Garrone explains some of the claimed links: oyster mushrooms (anti-tumoral properties), shitakes (immune system boosters), reishi (improve T-cell production), bear's head mushrooms (treatment for brain cell problems and digestion problems). Though he’s quick to add that he’s just a mushroom farmer so he sends people to the Internet to find out for themselves.
Helping San Francisco clean up their last oil spill
Garrone didn’t get into the business to help save the world, but somehow he’s managed to help save his corner of the world. After San Francisco’s last oil spill he helped provide an indigenous strain of oyster mushroom to a bioremediation project. That is, the mycelium from his oyster mushrooms broke down the oil so it could be composted.
“The reason we got this strain was so that we had a strain that was indigenous to San Francisco so there wasn't any possibility of the organism releasing into the Presidio... now we actually maintain it because it's a real nice mushroom, but also if we ever need that strain for a bioremediation project in San Francisco we would have that organism alive.”
He continues to produce 15,000 pounds of this organism on a weekly basis, so if San Francisco asks for help again, he can also provide a lot of this mushroom very quickly.
In this video, Garrone takes us for a tour of his farm where he shows us the sawdust piles, clean room (a sterile lab), incubation rooms (mushrooms are here for 4-13 weeks), and the thousands of mature fruiting mushrooms ready to be picked.
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If kids were learning about this kinda stuff in school, I bet they would take more interest in the world than just learning random ass facts.
That's the truth. I would calling it random propaganda. Cherry pick the science that promotes their ageanda.
Ding
FUNgi education is coming TOGETHER sharing what works for US alllll
i love his attitude to his product, there's no hard sale here as he knows his product sells itself.
+tom c hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to learn about how do i grow mushrooms try Nevolly Mushrooms Maker Nerd (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some super things about it and my colleague got cool success with it.
+k84u Seen this comment on other chamnels
+k84u Same exact comment
I love his relaxed tone and demeanor.
This might be the first time I've heard someone talking about bioremediation, the medicinal value of mushrooms, pallet balance, and slow foods without sounding like a stuck-up, self-involved, empty-headed fad chaser. I bet it would be fun to hang out with that guy.
Thank you for taking the time to make this!
Love how he puts the info out there and doesn't pressure or push the medicinal. Mushrooms are pretty amazing
ENUNCIATION .. Totally helps when conducting interviews....
This is fantastic, and, being a mushroom lover and an animalist, I´m also happy that the fact that mushrooms as ideal meat-substitute is also being promoted in the video description! Thank you so much for this!
WOW! what a setup for some BEAUTIFUL FOOD
That was fascinating!
Great people! I loved working with them!
This is mushroom heaven to c all different kinds of nutritious mushrooms growing.
Thank you for sharing the information with us Ian Garrone and Kirsten Dirksen, very interesting, I'm looking in ways to use mushroom for bioremediation. :)
Great job on video,tutorial, process,explaination,and results
@StarFlower99654 Good question. I remember Ian saying that with some types of mushrooms he could get 2 "crops" from each bag. Others just 1 and a half and others just one, all depending on the type of mushroom. One type of tree oyster mushroom he had broken up the bags after 2 flushes (crops) and was growing a third on an open bed (you see him standing in front of it in the video at one point).
He is my boss and yes, yes he is a very fun person to work with.
Hats off to you sir!
Most illuminating... a mushroom for every occaision & condition... Wow!
that looks like a very fun job. love mushrooms.
I'm truly amazed by what you have accomplished and do everyday. I love mushrooms and I would love to see, and eat, any recipes you might have for the 40 different varieties of mushrooms you grow. I'd be in mushroom heaven.
Thank you sir and lady
Love your Chanel !!
This was a particularly fascinating piece. We've heard that spent brewing grain is a good mushroom substrate too, but we've never tried it.
Great video!
Great topic…learned allot. Thanks.
... thats A LOT of sawdust... lots of trees.
Very nice vid! Thanks.
Thanks informative and down to earth.
Appreciate your video. Kudos.
Thank yous for sharing....
Great job,information,tutorial,friendly
Appreciate it. Your time
Sometimes getting mad is healthy
Thank you. Very informing
Lovely. I've just had a big bowl of Mushroom Soup.
That is far out Ian ! You are the MUSHROOM MAN
Yummy - Tree Mushrooms that help you stay healthy too ! :-)
GOD BLESS ALWAYS BLESS YOU IAN GARRONE.
I love what got going on there, I'm a big fan of mushroom but never have cultivate them. Somthing in the future for sure, keep on the good job.
+Wild Mushroom of Humboldt County growing mushrooms is great fun if you have never tried before there is no reason not too! if you are into mushrooms, growing them takes it to the next level.
Ian seems to be a fun guy.
Very cool!
Two Thumbs Up!!!
Thank You allll for your contributions UPcoming 🍄⚡🍒
Interesting stuff
Neat, didn't know about the remediation. I was under the impression that the largest organism was a cypress Forrest that was all one root system.
I have always hated mushrooms. However now I put them ground into capsules to get the benefits!!
Just incredible production! Wondering where you sell all of those mushrooms?
That was awesome
amazing
Give this man a megafactory and we can feed the hungry!
This was such an informative video. Thank You Ian Garrone for sharing this with us! This is something I'm contemplating doing here in the midwest. Is there anything you can recommend for me to study up on, to see how I can become a fungi Farm/Company? Thanks
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@kirstendirksen You can grow other kinds of mushrooms on the compost produced after one kind is done with it. For instance, you can grow white buttons on the compost from shittake and oysters. After the musrooms have had their turn, what is left over is great for growing vegetables in.
I'm amazed at the lack of pests he has at that farm, What was he doing to prevent fungus gnat infestation? I used to operate a small oyster mushroom farm in New Zealand and we had constant pest problems :(
10:15, that sass
Impressive
8:55 "Mario is now opening the bag." hahahaaa
glad I wasn't the only one laughing at that :D
He knew what he was getting at...
Lol I read ur comment as I heard that, so weird man.
Wheres Luigi?
How funny would it be if all the sudden Mario just started growing
Interviewer was ignorant, but the grower was magnificent with his love and knowledge of the qualities of the individual mushrooms.
They don't look great to me personally lol. They look oddly formed, too much c02 made them leggy and the shiitake look too dry.
🤣🤣🤣🤣the workers aggressively smashing the blocks in the bin while old dude pets his shrooms...
Great video.can u tell me witch mushroom gives off the most c02?
you are the uberdude of mycoligy
great setup... it would be nice to find a way to get away from all the plastic waste though
Are the wood shelves treated with anything? I was always under the impression that wooden shelves are never a good thing inside a greenhouse.
@Canonpixmalogitechko Good information. How great that you were also a mushroom farmer.
We didn't talk much about pests, though perhaps he's just fortunate due to the climate in his area. Moss Landing is in between Santa Cruz and Monterey and that whole area spends much of the year in the fog and rarely gets that hot. I would guess this wouldn't be ideal for gnats, but I have never farmed so I really have no idea.
You are doing an amazing job. Love all your video. Best wishes. Thank you. Would love to work together
How many harvests do you get from those bags? I would think they are resusable, but perhaps they dont have enough nutrients to produce more than one harvest? Very interesting video, Thanks Kirsten!
Question,
Isn't it unlikely to have those mushrooms sold if their stalks are taller than the caps?
Usually, the stalks/ stems are just cut off.
Mushrooms are so pretty
Great informative video. The shroom guy should be called shroom GOD, LOL
What is the ratio with the subtrate mades of sawdust and gypson? Thank you
I always thought mushrooms were dirty, but those portobello ones are tasty.
What do they do with the rest (leftover organism and plastic bags)? Do they dump or recycle them?
Considering the high humidity, I wonder the wooden shelves are free from bacteria... Please help, is there any special conditions of the wooden shelves in the incubating & growing rooms?
bacteria is everywhere. these fungi are particularly good at cultivating the bacteria around them to be ideal for their own growing situation.
Hey the mushrooms love the wooden shelves . Don’t try and sterilize the crap out of everything !
weird thing about youtube is that u a in a time-warp. pretty sure this company in west coast went belly up - but sooo wish I had seen it working before it shut down. If this is NOT that company, great video - charge for walk-throughs n u will be fine.
They're still around
How are your protected from spores?
Fascinating! I'd love to grow my own mushrooms. The only thing that bothers me is the amount of plastic used to grow them. 🙁
Hey I know this comment is a little old, but it's a possible to grow tree mushrooms on logs w very little plastic involved. Most dumps have logs cut down bc of danger to power lines etc, and you just drill holes and plug the spawn in!
music in the background on part of this video - do they grow better with music? :) - Mythbusters proved that plants grow better with Rock & Roll - very loud R&R. Have you ever tested that?
respect the fungai
i want to learn how to do scale up like that.
what kind of bags are you using? ar ethey BPA free????
There is a mushroom farm in my city. I wonder if they grow anything other than white and brown mushrooms?
Useing grop natural bags...Sir?
What Oil Spill was this? What year? any peer reviewed research papers or articles documenting the clean up process? Are prokaryotes involved in this process?
Thanks ahead for any leads.
+Jesse Reyes Is this related?
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Hair-and-mushrooms-create-a-recipe-for-cleaning-3301177.php
Finally he told her to look it up on the internet in a polite way lol. Geese. Maybe as a few questions but let the guy do his speech.
Fast speaking interviewer: explain how this supports my passion for slow foods.
Slow talking farmer: well, you know, they can be eaten slowly.
Fast speaking interviewer: thanks for agreeing- I’ll name my video around my slow food agenda then.
I have tried growing mushrooms but the bugs only kill them they get in and lay eggs so they die.
On of his employees is named Mario...ironic.
i propose the next level will be to grow them in a biodegradable film bag
I second that. Farming in general just needs substitutes for plastic, there's just too much single-use in the industry.
This guy is a love child of noam chomsky and bill bellichik
I cannot unsee that now, Thanks alot
I must be doing something right because a 10-pound block only takes me about 12 days to completely propagate itself through the block not a month. I actually usually get pinning before the two-week. I don't keep him in the dark enough environment so that's kind of my own fault
Lol I've ran into you on other vids, yeah I was thinking the same though. Seems like they don't mix up the sub after inoculating with grains just dump in the grains and let it grow top down lol, old style of growing I guess? Most people don't colonize in the dark anymore.
@@jordanmercier3616 the only thing that really needs dark is white button in Portobello that I know of everything else benefits from a little bit of indirect light
I wonder how many different Psylocybes he has : )
Plant all exsessof inoculated block
Those guys are going off whacking those blocks
any commenters know where in SF to find magic shrooms growing? GGPark?
How many peeps here grow their own shrooms on the sly ;-) ?
Really dumb question.. can i use treated sawdust? I have access to sawdust, but its from 2x4's and building materials. I also have 200 pounds of Rice hull.. How can i use those 2 things, and what ever would i need. I have plugs coming, but id rather have to spend huge money on what is essentially trash products.. im on a budget. HELP!
Bit late maybe, but don't grow shrooms in treated sawdust. Teh toxins go into the shrooms. You can get free untreated sawdust easily from timber mills or some cabinet makes have that to give away too... craigslist sometimes has people offering it.. good luck!
Does he pay his workers in mushrooms??
Good vid, but there has to be a more sustainable way of farming those mushrooms then to use plastic throwaway bags. Also he never said what they do with all the used medium? do they compost it and reuse it?
mushroom compost is sold and an excellent fertilizer! and there are biodegradable growing bags.
***** Hugelkultur perhaps (burying logs in the grounds and stacking them then covering with soil) to promote growth using inoculated (entire) logs, shocked into pinning with cold water and buried in between rows of generally acidic plants.
Starting off hardwood logs indoors and keeping them in an inoculation room would be a sane way of getting a large amount of mushrooms naturally from the logs in any practical business sense.
Are they edibly safe, do they leech? Do you know of other methods that are plastic free?
how is this guy not walking around just eating and foraging as he walk? he has extreme discipline. either that. or he has extreme hatred of taste
why were they slamming those bags?
To speed up growth.
They're breaking up the mycelium and clumped sawdust to shake things up inside the bags, to promote the mycelium to grow over all the sawdust at the same time, not slowly take over.
I thought they were slamming the bags over a waste dumpster to separate the used saw dust from the bags for disposal.
i just had to laugh when he said Mario was opening the mushrooms...it made me think of the Mario Brothers and the mushroom.
Many people are terrified of growing mushrooms because they don't have the knowledge to know the difference between a mushroom that has compounds that can make you sick or has psychedelic compounds and those that don't. How does someone know the difference????
I love his attitude lol reminds me of Jack Nicholson
He opens each door as if he isn't allowed in or is hiding something inside lol
All mushrooms are also high in vitamin D. I eat them in salads.
sarah kuhr ,they have more nutria all value cooked . You should sauté them first .
Interesting....He seems like a real fun guy...or is that fun juy?....sorry, somebody had to say it...;P