There were many mushroom farms in the general vicinity where I grew up in Del. Not so many now. Anyway, the mushrooms are grown in sterilized manure, so...

They also attract these teeny, tiny little mushroom flies (that fly far afield of the actual mushrooms, unfortunately) that fit through the holes in window and door screens. They have a vaguely licorice smell when swatted.

x-post with sumi! Yep, it's still there.

Pig shit is MUCh worse than cow shit.

Yeah. Except our neighbors used to liquify their cow manure and spray it over their fields with a shit cannon. (Although I don't think it was called a shit cannon.) That really amplified the smell....

In North Carolina, there are giant factory farms raising pigs, with their accompanying giant pig-shit lagoons. Ugh.

My grandfather raised pigs, but it was a small family farm, not a factory. The pig shit was at a normal level. The birthing barn didn't smell so good, but it wasn't horrible, either.

Ooh, I was not aware of the pig-shit lagoons.

How do chicken farms rank on the shit-smell-o-meter?

Wow, and I thought the funk coming off the Abbott Labs plant near here was bad. Though it's never fun when the wind is coming off the sewage treatment plant near my grandfather's orchard.

Chicken plants smell really bad. Arkansas (home of Tyson) has a bunch of them, and boy howdy. You know exactly where they are.

Wow, and I thought the funk coming off the Abbott Labs plant near here was bad.

I never knew Abbott smelled...my dad used to work there but I never stopped to smell it. I was always driving by on the highway so I was mostly inhaling car exhaust.

There were many mushroom farms in the general vicinity where I grew up in Del. Not so many now. Anyway, the mushrooms are grown in sterilized manure, so...

And where I grew up in Delaware (you know, like 10 or so miles away) it smelled like...DuPont I guess. Scary chemical smells = Massive wave of nostalgia for me.

Greensboro, NC, where I went to grad school smells like cedar. Very nice.