Lacey Suiter, owner of Moonlight Harvest, harvests mushrooms. Mushrooms grown by Lacey Suiter, owner of Moonlight Harvest, at her home in Bossier Parish, La. Lacey Suiter, owner of Moonlight Harvest, makes a U-shaped cut into a block to create a tab that mushrooms will push out of the way as they grow.
The mushrooms are grown inside a grow tent in her home in Bossier Parish, La. Lacey Suiter is a mushroom farmer in Haughton who grows and sells whole fresh mushrooms to restaurants, to retail stores, and at the Shreveport Farmers Market. With leftover mushrooms she makes value added products: tinctures, a probiotic liquid , and seasonings for food.
She also has dehydrated and freeze dried mushrooms. Bossier Parish resident Lacey Suiter grows a variety of mushrooms inside her home for sale at local markets. Her company is .
In 2013, she went with her dad on his annual trip foraging for morel mushrooms in Ohio. A morel mushroom has a unique texture and flavor, is wild and cannot be farmed, and has a short growing season making it rare and sought after. "My whole family up there — they have like jars of dirt with mycelium or spores from morel trying to grow them.
It was really cool to see and I'd always kind of liked them. After that I played around with cultivation just a little bit." She moved out of state for four years.
"Whenever I came back, I said, 'This is what I'm going to do.'" She's been growing mushrooms now for about three years. What does she like most about growing.
