The term specialty refers to any mushroom except the white button mushroom commonly found in supermarkets. Specialty mushrooms include shiitake, oyster, enoki, wine cap, maitake, and pompom among many others. Selling large quantities of any of these mushrooms may be a challenge unless you are near a large ethnic population e.g., Asian American that has enjoyed these delicacies for centuries. Smaller quantities can be sold locally in farmers markets, as part of a pickyourown fruit and vegetable operation, to gourmet restaurants, to health food stores, or to local grocery stores. While production of the common button mushroom is a possibility, it is already widely available in grocery stores, and new growers will be competing with largescale producers in established markets. However, smallscale cultivation of specialty mushrooms could be a profitable addition to your farming enterprise.

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