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The Kennett Square mushroom industry should be booming. The popularity of the edible fungi, always prominent, gained traction with stay-at-home chefs during the…
Chris Alonzo of Pietro Industries in Kennett Square is one of many local business owners who said their employees are eager to receive the COVID…
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our nation in so many profound ways, and agriculture, an essential business in every way, has been no exception…
Farmers in Chester County are bracing for huge coronavirus-caused losses in the middle of the high season as the restaurant shutdowns and stay-at…
Pietro Industries of Kennett Square will soon have a strong foothold in the mushroom market in China, thanks in part to Chester County’s “sister…
With Mexican immigrants leaving the area voluntarily or involuntarily due to the current anti-immigrant sentiment, Kennett Square is facing a labor shortage that threatens…
Mushroom farmers in Chester County are looking to expand their production with vegetables grown indoors, writes Sam Wood for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Chris Alonzo of…
An owner of one of Chester County’s largest mushroom growers has just broken ground on another venture: a state-of-the-art mushroom production…
The Southern Chester County Chamber of Commerce is hosting the first job fair of its kind in the region on Sept. 29 from 9 AM…
An April immigration raid in Avondale has put mushroom farms at the epicenter of renewed immigration enforcement under the Trump Administration, but the fear of…
The multi-year effort to foster relationship between China and Chester County is starting to bear fruit, with local mushroom and beer producers preparing to…
The growing difficulty with finding people to pick mushrooms in Chester County is beginning to stomp on the area’s centuries-long agricultural pride and…
Amidst the crackdown on undocumented immigrants by the new administration, mushroom farmers in Chester County are rallying behind the immigrant workers in the area, urging…
America’s longstanding appetite for mushrooms has made Kennett Square and Chester County the celebrated Mushroom Capital of the World, but the $500 million industry…
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