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Talking Shiitakes

Three takes — and a plethora of tips — on these lucrative but labour-intensive mushrooms

BY JULIE STAUFFER | PHOTOS AHREN HUGHES

It’s only 9:30 on a Saturday morning at the local farmer’s market, but Ahren Hughes has already sold out of his fresh shiitake mushrooms. “People gobble them up like mad,” says the organic farmer, who grows them on half an acre of wooded property he rents just north of Guelph, Ontario. Specialty mushrooms like the firm, flavour-packed [...] MORE


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