How A Sleepy Pennsylvania Town Grew Into America's Mushroom Capital

How A Sleepy Town Grew Into America's Mushroom Capital
A woman walks her dog by a carpet of mushrooms in a forest at the estate of Mariendaal in Arnhem on September 30, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ANP /ROBIN UTRECHT netherlands out (Photo credit should read ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/GettyImages)
A woman walks her dog by a carpet of mushrooms in a forest at the estate of Mariendaal in Arnhem on September 30, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ANP /ROBIN UTRECHT netherlands out (Photo credit should read ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/GettyImages)

Here's an astonishing fact: Half of America's mushrooms are grown in one tiny corner of southeastern Pennsylvania, near the town of Kennett Square.

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