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Colorado mushroom megafarm closes, disrupting supplies for restaurants and grocers, leaving Guatemalan workers without pay

Mushroom lovers may have to hunt harder or pay more in stores unless grocers find other suppliers

Guatemalan immigrant worker Eulalia Cristobal placed fresh just-picked mushrooms on a tray at the Colorado Mushroom Farm on Feb. 8, 2008. (Photo by Andy Cross/Denver Post file)
Guatemalan immigrant worker Eulalia Cristobal placed fresh just-picked mushrooms on a tray at the Colorado Mushroom Farm on Feb. 8, 2008. (Photo by Andy Cross/Denver Post file)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
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A Colorado mushroom magnate's Colorado Mushroom Farm in the San Luis Valley northeast of Alamosa that for decades infused fresh fungi into the Rocky Mountain West has shut down — mired in debts environmental disputes and a federal lawsuit — marooning 100 Guatemalan immigrant workers.
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