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Photo of the Day: Making Money on Mushrooms

With a few logs from their forests and little work farmers are turning to a new crop — shitake mushrooms that can bring in tens of thousands of dollars. A grant from the USDA has helped to teach farmers from Maine to Virginia how to raise shiitake mushrooms.

Sep 22, 2013
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(AP) — In this Sept. 13, 2013, photo, Maeve Mangine poses for a photo with a log full of shiitake mushrooms in Shrewsbury, Vt.

With a few logs from their forests and little work farmers are turning to a new crop — shitake mushrooms that can bring in tens of thousands of dollars. A grant from the USDA has helped to teach farmers from Maine to Virginia how to raise shiitake mushrooms. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)