The Cultivation of Mushrooms

Cultivated mushrooms are farmed, rather than being foraged where they grow wild in forests and fields. They are grown in controlled environments like large mushroom factories, so that a constant and higher volume of mushrooms can be produced for our ever-eager palates.

Before mass production of mushrooms began around about the 1900s, mushrooms were still thought of as something unusual and sought-after, with only a few people able to locate and enjoy them. Mushroom cultivation brought mushrooms to the masses.