Inside a long, dimly-lit building, Tyler Faaborg slipped into a “fruiting room” cordoned off by what looked like plastic curtains. Fog rolled over shelves of sprouting mushrooms. A bulbous fungi called lion’s mane still had another week before harvest, he explained.
“You can see they’re sort of, a little bit pinkish,” Faaborg said. “When they get mature, they’re going to be almost all the way white.”
Tyler Faaborg, along with his parents and brother, grow specialty mushrooms on their family farm in central Iowa and sell them as tinctures, coffee blends and flavored salt…