St. Francisville - A mushroom farm is drawing a fungi following, supplying mushrooms to restaurants and homes throughout the capital area.

Maggie Long and Cyrus Lester are the wife and husband duo who have owned and operated Mushroom Maggie's Farm since 2018.

"We wanted to do farming, but we didn't have any money, we didn't have any land," Long said. "We didn't come from farming, so what do we do, you know? So, we looked at stuff to do indoors, we saw that no one was doing mushrooms at the time. It's become more than just a passion, it's become our lives now."

Every Monday, the crew at Mushroom Maggie's Farm packs blocks of a material made of ground sawdust and flakes of soybean hulls. Lester said they make over 600 blocks each week. The blocks are then injected with mushroom spawn and

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