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This episode is supported by Lomey Soil. Tonight we'll be reading a section of the book

Mushrooms how to grow them called mushroom growing in the Paris caves, written by William Falconer and published in 1892.

The famous architecture of Paris was built using the limestone extracted from underneath the city.

The resulting catacombs were also used to grow the Paris mushroom, a type of the button variety. Legend has it that

mushroom farming in these caves started when some deserters of Napoleon's army, along with their horses,

discovered that mushrooms naturally flourished on the mixture of limestone and horse manure within. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

eyes.

relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now take a few deep breaths. In caves and subterranean passages underneath the city of Paris and its environs.

Thousands of tons of mushrooms

are artificially produced every year.

These underground caves and tunnels

are abandoned quarries

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