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Mushroom growers squeezed out by Covid, cost, urban creep

Deep-pocketed Meadow Mushrooms has been left to monopolise the market, but one significant competitor is bringing up the rear.

Parkvale Mushrooms in the Wairarapa is up for sale

Maria Slade Tue, 24 Jan 2023

“It’s the first Christmas in 56 years that I've not had to worry about staff or mushrooms or marketing or anything.”

So says Clive Thompson, owner of Parkvale Mushrooms in the Wairarapa, who is looking forward to retiring from the business he founded in 1966.

He and wife Margaret are in their

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