Kara Bond, owner of the Canton Mushroom works.
Kara Bond, of Canton, Ohio, always dreamed of having a mushroom farm. “It was something that I always kidded about … ‘I don’t want a desk job; I’m gonna be a mushroom farmer,’” Bond said. She worked desk jobs for a long time. But when she was laid off in November 2019, she found herself with extra time on her hands.
Kara started Canton Mushroom Works in July of 2021 and has been reliably supplying mushrooms to major grocery stores and restaurants since. During that time Kara has demonstrated a steady increase in product yield and customer base. Current clients include regular weekly orders to Giant Eagle, Earth Fare, Lucca Downtown, Melange and H2 Huth and Harris, 330 Grill at the DoubleTree Hilton, plus roughly a dozen or so smaller and intermittent clients.