A Tour Of Gourmet Mushrooms In Sonoma County Where They Grow Delicious Exotic Specialty Mushrooms
Follow Foods For Long Life on FACEBOOK ! What a Wonderful Neighbor to Have! A few miles down the road is a large, windowless, warehouse-looking building right across the street from Merry Edwards, one of my favorite wineries. When I found out that it was a gourmet mushroom farm, I could hardly contain my excitement! After living here for 3 years, I finally got a chance to go inside! The only mushroom farm I had ever seen before was decades ago in Maryland where they grew common white button mushrooms. Pioneers I met their President and CEO, David Law, who together with the Chairman, Malcolm Clark, founded Gourmet Mushrooms in 1977. They were the first commercial grower of shiitakes but now they grow far more exotic mushrooms. Being visionaries and learning the many medicinal properties of mushrooms, they also supply nutraceutical products as well. The Wonderful Tour Bob Engel, their Director of Marketing, gave us the tour. The first thing that surprised me was that the mush...