Here's an interview with Tradd Cotter, with Mushroom Mountain, presenter for the workshop "Mushrooms For Everyone."

Learn even more about Tradd Cotter from his TEDTalk and his video on Repowering America.

Q: What got you interested in mushroom cultivation?

A: It basically found me. I wasn’t interested at all until I toured a Mushroom Farm on John’s Island, SC when I was twenty.  I needed a job while I was in college and wasn’t interested in flipping burgers, so I went out to tour the farm to see how they were being grown.  I toured with the owner and offered some insight since I was a biology major.  As I was driving off after the tour, the owner ran out and knocked on my window, offering me a job on the spot.  That was the “moment” mushrooms found me…. That was 1993 and I haven’t stopped ever since.