2. As soon as you walk in it opens up to an incredible 650 metre long tunnel filled with mushrooms.
3. The tunnel is like a long, magical journey that’s only **slightly** creepy.
5. Essentially, the mushrooms are grown in a variety of ways.
9. The life cycle of these ones is quite intense.
14. The hardest (or at least, the mushrooms that took the most work) were the shiitake variety.
15. They are grown on eucalyptus stumps and then thrown in big tubs like this. Noel called this part of the procedure “bathing.” So mushrooms are really just like us :)
They stay in the tub overnight and are then bashed around a little bit. Like, really bashed around.
Then they are put back on the spikes and left to mature.
16. The shiitake is pretty sought after and used in medicine a lot.
Noel told us a story about ancient Chinese doctors rubbing shiitake on wounds. This was an early version of penicillin.
17. Here are some enoki mushrooms. These were my favourite because they look like a bunch of little people all huddled together in a blanket.
We should all try to be more like the enoki mushroom.