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Couple promotes medical benefits of mushrooms

Mushroom foragers and growers Tom and Margaret Painter prepare their mushroom tinctures in their home. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

BRADY TWP — Tom and Margaret Painter are mushroom evangelists.

Through their company, Foraged With Faith, they preach the medical benefits of the tinctures they extract from mushrooms they grow at home and harvest in the wild.

And they use their sales of mushroom remedies to spread the word of God through their Mushroom Ministries.

The Painters credit God with guiding them to their new career.

Margaret said up until two years ago she was practically bedridden after a decade’s battle with lupus and multiple sclerosis.

“God put all these mushrooms into our path for healing,” she said. “I was a vegetable for 10 years. I couldn’t do anything. I was basically bedridden, waiting to die.”

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Tom Painter explains his mushroom growing process in a downstairs grow room in his house Thursday. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

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