Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Black Mushroom Farm
So because mushrooms need cool weather (Dalat is quite cool because it's in the mountains, but gets hot during the day) they grow them in these little huts with grass roofs. Hundreds of plastic bags filled with soil and fertilizer hang from the ceiling and get watered and sprout mushrooms from slits cut in the bags (a couple of slits ensures bigger mushrooms vs many slits). The mushrooms are then harvested, washed in soapy water, dried in the sun and then sent off to be sold. The leftover white bags filled with soil are then sent to a nearby farm to be used to grow white mushrooms. I am now a wealth of random knowledge lol.
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