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More Mushrooms for RI

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Rhode Island Mushroom Company heads into its second year with an expanded growing operation in West Kingston. What began wedged in a basement at Sweet Berry Farm in Middletown has grown to a 50-foot-long greenhouse nested inside a warehouse. This additional room means more of our favorite fungi of course; they expect their current production of 200-250 pounds a week to swell to 1,500-2,000 pounds. Bob DiPietro and Mike Hallock of Rhode Island Mushroom company will use this extra production to serve more farmers markets, as well as increase sales to restaurants. They sell a wide variety of mushrooms you can’t find anywhere else, both their own and some wild-harvested imports. The golden oyster mushrooms they grow are perhaps my favorite. They are delicate, sweet and visually stunning. Some places you can find the golden oysters and many more are the Portsmouth Aquidneck Growers Market and Mount Hope Market in Bristol.

RI Mushrooms company, the bay

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