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  • Farmers grow harvest and pack nearly 400 million mushrooms a year in this small pennsylvania town.

  • Here they cultivate everything from white button and portobello to specialty mushrooms like shiitake and lion's mane mushrooms.

  • Eat a strict diet of recycled mulch hay, wheat, straw, poultry litter and corn.

  • Cob mushrooms are grown indoors so that we can control the environment.

  • It all happens on vertical shelves.

  • Workers use this machine to lay the compost down.

  • Then comes a layer called casing, with peat, moss, limestone and water.

  • After 16 days were ready to harvest mushrooms double in size every 24 hours, so pickers have to move quickly each armed with a knife, a cart and tons of boxes.

Farmers grow harvest and pack nearly 400 million mushrooms a year in this small pennsylvania town.

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