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To many people, it might smell like a pile of rotting leaves, but not to Fung Yang.
“What you’re smelling is the smell of money to us,” says Yang, owner of Small Kine Farm in Waimanalo.
Yang grows organic mushrooms, and the earthy smell comes from piles of wood-chipped trees that Yang composts into what amounts to soil – the scientific word is substrate – for the portobellos he cultivates.
