Brooklyn-based mushroom farm supplies restaurants and stores
As our country deals with supply chain shortages, there’s a renewed conversation around local produce and urban farming.
By Hannah Kliger
Cbs
June 21, 2022
On a small street tucked away in Bedford-Stuyvesant, thousands of mushrooms grow in climate-controlled rooms.
On Tuesday, CBS2’s Hannah Kliger went inside the headquarters of Smallhold, a Brooklyn-based specialty mushroom farm that uses patented technology to produce the crazy, colorful, and cartoonish toadstools that later end up in grocery stores and restaurants.
Smallhold co-founder and CEO Andrew Carter says they started in 2017 in a shipping container under the Williamsburg bridge.
“We felt like if you could do it in Brooklyn, you could do it anywhere,” he says.
The current location has five growing rooms, each of them, climate controlled for things like temperature and humidity, to create the optimal conditions for the type of mushroom being grown.
