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The Local Food Report
As we re-imagine our relationships to what we eat, Local Food Report creator Elspeth Hay takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers and visionaries

Local Farm Grows 22 Varieties of Mushrooms

Elspeth Hay

Most people are familiar with at least shiitake and crimini mushrooms. But there are dozens of other varieties that are both nutritious and incredibly good for you. This week on the Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay talks with Wesley Price and Troy Janusz of Nantucket Mushrooms in Chatham. The farm grows twenty-two varieties of edible and medicinal mushrooms.

You can read more about the varieties the farm is growing on Elspeth's blog, Diary of a Locavore.

An avid locavore, Elspeth lives in Wellfleet and writes a blog about food. Elspeth is constantly exploring the Cape, Islands, and South Coast and all our farmer's markets to find out what's good, what's growing and what to do with it. Her Local Food Report airs Thursdays at 8:30 on Morning Edition and 5:45pm on All Things Considered, as well as Saturday mornings at 9:30.