Depending on the type, they can taste like bacon, lobster, almonds — even hot peppers.
Anita, Gerald and Gerry Walsh grow a range of gourmet mushrooms year-round at Windy Heights Farm in Portugal Cove, N.L. The family says the lion's mane mushroom — pictured above — tastes like lobster when fried.
At the moment, the Walsh family grows and sells a wide array of edible mushrooms at their farm, Windy Heights, including about ten oyster strains, shiitake, lion's mane, enoki, red reishi and more. The mushrooms are all cultivated indoors, and can thrive in any season. So Anita — a chartered accountant — crunched some numbers, concluding that growing gourmet mushrooms could be financially viable in the province, although as she pointed out, they weren't eligible for financing "because mushrooms weren't a proven industry here."
"When there's goldenrod, that goldenrod comes inside and messes with what's going on in here, too, and so you're always fighting," she explained. One time, she said, a friend wearing essential oil crossed paths with the mushrooms, and unwittingly contaminated an entire batch.
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