Volume 77 CONTENTS | MARCH 2024 | Number 3 29 15 46 8 A growing business Dixon farm offers specialty mushrooms 15 Egg-cellent Easters start here Sunny Bunny Easter Eggs are filled by happy people 20 Hardwood history Success is the norm for Northwest Missouri State 29 Garden giants Two winners share secrets for growing massive produce 46 Grab a spoon Butler business makes peanut butter fun 50 The Little Farm Store Online farmers market brings food to the people ON THE COVER Ron and Eric Selfers harvest about 250 pounds of Italian oyster mushrooms from their rural mushroom farm every week. Read about Cold Creek Mushrooms on page 8. MARCH 2024 | RURALMISSOURI.COOP 3 IN EVERY ISSUE 4 Cooperation 5 Perspectives 34 Eats 41 Recipes 44 Events 50 Outdoors 54 Just4Kidshttp://www.RURALMISSOURI.COOP