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Interest in foraging for wild mushrooms has surged in Minnesota over the past decade, leading several entrepreneurs to turn their love for foraging into careers. 

Minnesota’s rainy spring has resulted in a bumper crop of morels, the distinctive mushrooms with the pointed, honeycombed caps that are prized by the rapidly growing number of foragers exploring the state’s forests in search of tasty fungi and other wild foods.

Entrepreneurs turn growing interest in mushroom foraging into passion careers

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