Wednesday, June 08, 2005

The Mushroom Farm: A Field Trip

My wife and I accompanied my daughter's class on a field trip to a mushroom farm in one of the local mushroom growing centers, Hsinshe. Mushrooms have been an important crop since they were promoted as an export crop in the 1950s. Anyway, I've created a website about the trip here.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Clyde Said:

You know this is the crop my own family in Taiwan used to grow, so I've spent many a day picking mushrooms in the huge sheds! Not easy work. Looks like you all had a good time. Field trips in Taiwan are so great because not far away is always something so interesting.

Anonymous said...

The company I used to work for used the "mushroom" theory to manage employees. Keep 'em in the dark, feed them a bunch of sh*t, then cut 'em off at the knees.

Michael Turton said...

Hell yes its Keelung, took the pic myself. Keelung looks better than Taichung, let's face it. I just liked the picture...

Sebastian Turton said...

Good job on the pictures. I pick mushrooms too.

Michael Turton said...

Yeah, I often mourn the lost potential of Keelung. But Taichung is just butt-ugly, lying across the western plain like a smear of crushed cockroach on a tiled floor. Not. a. pretty. sight.