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We start at the Guizzetti Farms compost yard, where tons of horse and chicken manure are mixed with hay, straw, cottonseed hulls and meal, cocoa shells from the nearby Hershey Chocolate factory, corn cobs, gypsum and hay and other ingredients to create the special food source needed to grow mushrooms. I was fascinated (and relieved) to learn that the compost is pasteurized to kill all bacteria before the mushroom spores are planted. From left are C.J. Wu, Michael Guizzetti, me and Jose Alvarez.

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