Roches Cave aka mushroom cave is about 50 meters deep underground tunnels and extended length over 121 km. Roches was a limestone quarry prospered for hundreds of years before.
At that time, people began to build large tunnels, an underground
settlements including houses, shops and beautiful wine cellar for
private life and mine.
Roches is an area that had been judged to be of high quality limestone in the region Bourre. A solid limestone and glistening white when exposed to the outside air.
Due to the unique nature of this type of limestone that is used to
build some of the most famous castles in France, such as Chambord,
Cheverny and Chenonceau.
The quarry is happening for a long time and ended in 1900, closed
quarries way for mushroom growing industry, it used to be the wine
cellar was built during the mining stone for mushroom farms, where
darkness and humidity are thoroughly exploited.
The mushroom farm today is considered the traditional village of cave dwellers.
In the 19th century, with hundreds of mushroom farms grow, with
production rates of up to 200 tons / month with about 50 employees
working, but today only the remaining 30 farms with only 6 people doing
the real production is 100 tons / year.
Although the number of farms has declined more mushrooms, but the
position of the mushroom industry in the cave Roches not reduced, there
is a blue foot mushrooms exports - regional specialty mushrooms in bulk .
The air temperature and humidity in the cave stable (13 degrees C) provide ideal conditions for the fungus to thrive. It uses different farming methods depending on the type of fungus.
Local oyster mushrooms, button mushrooms and chestnut mushrooms were
grown on soil and pile of horse manure, while brown mushrooms originated
from East Asia have been growing on the piles were compacted sawdust.
The mushroom farm production accounts for about 40% blue foot rest is the other mushrooms. This fungus is offered to the market such as Tokyo and New York. Through many years of production, planting cave Roches 8 new fungus, including the fungus to cure. In 2005, the caves Roches became the first commercial production of medicinal mushrooms in water.
France is the first country to grow mushrooms, this initiative began King Louis XIV. Mushrooms are not only associated with cultural history that fungi also play an important role in the French culinary culture. The famous French chef culinary world with the use of fungi as a primary food in large quantities.
Today, the trip to the cave fungus has caused a lot of this region becomes more popular. Near the cave Roches, people also established a museum mushrooms.
Mushroom cave visitors to the tour guide brought to the mushroom farm,
visiting workplaces in the cave and learn the history of mushroom
cultivation.
Besides a visit to the village in the ground, only to walk about 1
kilometer cave system, tourists can see the large village of 16,000 m2
this. The village of miners are elaborately carved in the 19th century, it's like the underground city of Petra Jordan. Village with houses, shops glittering with the front windows go out along the tunnel.
Images of cave Roches:
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| Brown button mushrooms growing on horse manure. |
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| Brown mushrooms originating from East Asian development on the mound was compacted sawdust. |
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| Chestnut mushrooms. |
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| Yellow oyster mushrooms |
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| Blue foot mushrooms - a specialty of the region. |
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| Settlements in the caves underground fungi. |
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