It’s signature America isn’t it? Rolling acres of grain, 8-foot high rows of corn, pastures of beef cattle and barns filled with mooing dairy cows. Oh, and then there are fields of grazing sheep and rooting pigs. You can see the patchwork from your airline seat 6,000 feet above the ground, and whizzing by your car window.

Oyster mushrooms growing in logs

But then there are the invisible farms – the ones that grow under cover and so slowly they seem still – the mushroom farms.

So still, in fact, that Jeremy McAdams launched his enterprise on a residential lot in the middle of Minneapolis!

In this Deep Roots Radio interview, co-host Dave Corbett and I chat with Jeremy McAdams owner/operator of Northwood Mushrooms in Clayton, Wisconsin. (Also marketing as Cherry Tree House Mushrooms) Why grow mushrooms in logs of wood? Why not plastic bags of compost and chips? And why certified organic?

I hope you enjoy this conversation. It brings mushroom farming into the light!

Sylvia Burgos Toftness