Louisiana Harvest of the Month Video Series: Mushrooms (10:22)

This month’s Louisiana Harvest of the Month is not a plant or an animal. It’s often mistakenly called a vegetable, but it is actually the fruit of a fungus. It’s mushrooms! These tasty toadstools prefer to grow in the dark. In fact, they require no sunlight at all, but today we’re going to shed some light on what it takes to get these meaty, nutritious mushrooms from the farm to your fork.