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William Padilla-Brown is a citizen scientist who, at a relatively young age, taught himself the ways of mushroom cultivation in order to change the world. William made waves as the first American to grow cordyceps, a rare orange mushroom that grows from the larvae of insects. William heads a citizen-run research center dedicated to environmental regeneration efforts with the belief that connecting more to the environment will aid humans in its preservation. He advocates growing your own mushrooms as a means for both food and education.

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45 Comments

  3. Ralphie and the Mama Cat

    So can anyone grow these in doors in your bed room closet? I got a long double closet. I also live in Florida hot humid moist 10 months out of the year. But I'm in apartment. So could I grow these in my closet? And where would I get the initial spores or what have you to get them growing?

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  7. Carlos Ortega

    hey the other video mushroom harvesting around the world is restricted to Mexico WTF, I thought munchies had open videos for any country, how dissapointing…

  12. Alex Tollah

    I'm a huge fan of mycology, and I love the look of these rare mushrooms, they're fascinating.

    That said, In my opinion, wild mushrooms universally taste terrible. I've had so many people try to feed me wild, supposedly rare mushrooms, and they all taste bland and off-putting.

  15. korbin john

    I think ppl get angry because they were doing it for years wuthout much fuss then some kid becomes a niche rockstar doing what you been on your own doing but this kid is legit he shares an encourages instead of keeping ot some secret club forbidden text

  16. Cabuda Gavin

    but like, what science has he done?, genuinely asking not being a d, cos it seems like he specialises in cultivation? though he said not, would have like to see the questions he has answered.

  17. Elmer Fudd

    Haha! Now, instead of the cordyceps mycelium controlling it's insect host to spread it's spores; it has now trained humans how to propagate their species! 😄

  20. MR. HandBones

    I like how Mr. Brown represents good ol' PA, as a native seeing that we have many different types here, I may quite the 10 hour day slavery to some donkey millionaire, and live off mushrooms.

  22. Patrick Huyck

    I just want to know where he got the bag to build up this farm he has? The infrastructure they showed is extensive and expensive.

  23. Rizwan Rafeek

    100 million people in U.S cannot find three meal a day, while the U.S regime spends on 722 billions on military for year 2022 for killing machine.

  25. Inphinite Zero

    Cordyceps Militaris? Athletes use it to boost physical performance and recovery
    Lions mane is also the goat, boosts ur memory and recovers it after drug abuse
    and Reishi is the goat of goats, immune booster, anti cancer and diabetes etc and helps with sleep and anxiety

  26. julia

    This is EXACTLY the type of place I want to work. If anyone knows if there’s something like this in the Atlanta area please let me know

  29. Kris Fleischer

    I learned from Cambodian and other South East Asian channels a few years back.They are incredible and the difference in them are so interesting

  32. swissm4n

    This is how you start a zombie apocalypse. JK great video, I love mushrooms, spend weeks each year to collect them, I like seeing this kind of hype and passion for mushrooms.

  34. Justice Beske

    Those dumplings look amazing I can only imagine how much amazing food you could make with those mushrooms

  37. Shane Fowkes

    Within a community its not the "lack of attention" its the lack of "education" if more schools taught younger people about all of this magic fungi then we could turn world hunger around, I mean educate people about these things find little facts to bring them in board and we can make the hunger crisis go away for good

  39. Caitlin Purple

    I want to be friends with this man. I'm a biology major but mycology isn't really an option as an undergraduate. But I think what he's doing is awesome

  42. Jedidiah Huang

    I grew up eating cordyceps (as a tonic) and this is the first time I've seen a western person describe something (that I've always only associated with pain and disgust) so favourably.

  43. Eraser Pieces

    the fact that those mushrooms specifically grow out of moths blew my mind, and that you can cultivate them on something so cheap since a lot mushrooms seem to need hard wood substrate

  45. Tomi-Jon

    He is gonna be found in his yard with a mushroom growing from his brain lol be careful man.

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