{"id":20417,"date":"2020-11-23T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p08zbjsr"},"modified":"2020-11-23T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:47:00","slug":"100-women-the-mushroom-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/11\/23\/100-women-the-mushroom-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Women: The mushroom woman"},"content":{"rendered":"This is the story of Chido Govera aka The Mushroom Woman. It is a story about her home, Zimbabwe. And it is also a story about mushrooms. It never should have happened. Chido, an orphan, became the provider in her family aged seven. At 10 she was destined to marry a man 30 years older than her. But a chance encounter led her to discover the almost magical science of mushroom cultivation at a local university, and set her life on a very different course.\n