Mushrooms being packaged on the Waitrose Leckford Estate in Hampshire. The farm typically harvest over 25 tonnes of mushrooms per week, which are hand picked and packaged on site before being distributed to Waitrose supermarkets across the country. Picture date: Thursday April 6th, 2017. Photo credit should read: Matt Crossick/Empics Entertainment. The Leckford Estate is a 4000 acre working farm, owned and run by Waitrose, and grows produce for their shops in the UK and for export to 56 countries.

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