Nearly everyone's heard the jokes about mushrooms. "He's such a fungi" or "There's a fungus among us." Briana Bright doesn't joke about mushrooms. Rather, she's captivated by them.
"I've always loved mushrooms, ever since I was a little child, so the fascination just kind of grew from there," Bright, of Bright Family Farm, said. "We decided, let's just try growing mushrooms and see how that goes."
With her husband Joe Bright, she took her first batch of mushrooms along to a sporting event in Carson City, growing them in a camp trailer. Now, the Brights have an entire mushroom-growing facility on their property across from Lamoille Canyon, having moved there from Spring Creek. While they are new to mushrooms, they have been growing produce since 2016, launching the Elko County area's first agriculture delivery subscription program.
"We also utilized the county's grant program for hoop house applications," Brianna Bright added. "So, we were the first ones to put up a hoop house in the area as well. But as we started to grow, we realized, with weather conditions, the short growing season, along with the pest control, things of that nature, that we wanted to do something that was more climate-controlled."
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