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Mushroom farming providing a new direction for some impacted by COVID and drought
A fascination with fungi is helping Queenslanders earn an income after losing work to COVID-19 and the drought.
Key points:
- Interest in mushroom farming is growing, as new growing techniques emege
- Small-scale growers are supplying them to local markets and restaurants
- There’s increasing consumer demand for locally grown produce
Tucked away about 13 kilometres from the Mackay CBD, Samara Galloway and Bret Garrity grow mushrooms in a shipping container, housing stacks of white buckets flooded in blue light.
It is a far cry from what most vegetable farms look like — but everything has been set up for a reason.
“It’s humidity-controlled with a humidifier that’s pumping a whole lot of water into the air,” Ms Galloway said.
“In a…
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