For the first time since its opening, the Otzarot HaYa’ar (Forest Treasures) mushroom farm in Betzet in the western Galilee has closed down. The farm’s owner and caretaker, Shaked Ben Shitrit Barnea, and her daughter, who evacuated to Tiberias since the beginning of the war in Gaza, couldn’t believe the day would come when they would have to let their boutique mushrooms, which they have been growing for many years, wither away slowly.
“I’m the only one who knows how to care for the mushrooms on the farm, and when my husband was called up for reserve duty and we were asked to evacuate, I…
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