drying mushrooms

”These are class-1 mushrooms, it means that they have been picked when they are still small, so they are in a good condition. Class 2 and 3 mushrooms go bad quite fast. I pick the mushrooms from the same area as the one’s who sell them for the shops, but we have kind of a deal, that they pick only the mushrooms which are profitable for them, the class 2 and 3 which are sold in the markets, and we don’t touch those, we only collect the class-1 mushrooms.”  ( ~ 30,  female, project work and traditional subsistence economy)

Gathering and processing natural subsistence for the use of own household, while coexisting with commercial actors. A remarkable demarcation between commodified and non-commodified mushrooms shows up.