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. Her company is Moonlight Harvest.
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.
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