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Growing mushrooms on shelves

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Growing mushrooms on shelves

Rooms filled with long shelves of compost are used for growing button mushrooms at Quality Mushrooms, Ōhaupō, Waikato.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi – Mushroom industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16820/growing-mushrooms-on-shelves (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.