Desert Moon Mushrooms

10/13/2024

Hear ye hear ye! We are hiring! 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

This position is a farm job which means it’s laborious, detail oriented, and hands on with the mushrooms! We need coverage 3-5 days a week and starts early in the morning. If you’re interested please send your resume!

[email protected]

10/04/2024

DON’T MISS OUT! 🍄‍🟫 We’ll have 4 different Wild Mushrooms at the Farmers Markets this weekend!

Cauliflower Mushroom- These flat noodle-like mushrooms are firmer in texture and taste sweet, nutty and meaty. Try them stir fried with a little garlic and salt.

Sweet Tooth Mushroom- Aka Hedgehog Mushroom. This one is nutty in flavor and dense in texture which makes them great for pastas and soups.

Button Chanterelles- These are smaller & younger Chanterelles, which means they are also cuter 🥹 They hold their shape well when cooked and have a sweet, fruity flavor.

Matsutake Mushroom- a prized mushroom that smells like forest because they grow with pine trees! They taste woodsy and sometimes have a little spice to it. Definitely a must try.

09/26/2024

Happy birthday to the man of the hour, Enrique! Our own in-house genius, engineer, scientist, mycologist, professional DIY’er and beyond. He takes growing mushrooms VERY seriously but lives life unbothered by most things, which is needed when things get tough and stressful. I’m not exaggerating when I say he’s worked NONSTOP for 5+ years to build Desert Moon Mushrooms from scratch and I couldn’t be more proud of him 🥹 What a guy! 5 stars! 10/10 ! -EvaSara 🤍

08/31/2024

These delectable sea-creature-esque dishes are made with our Oyster Mushrooms (Yellow & Blue) at Bazaar Mar 🌊🧜‍♀️ they call it the Sea Anemone✨

08/29/2024

These icy blue Mother of Pearl Oysters have us thinking about cooler weather 🩵❄️ we are SO READY for this heat to go away!!

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08/14/2024

We just can’t get enough of our Lions Mane Mushrooms 😋🤤

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07/31/2024

07/26/2024

🦞🍄‍🟫Take a look at these Wild Harvested Lobster Mushrooms!!

We have a VERY limited supply going to the market tomorrow at the Downtown Summerlin Farmers’ Market. These are sold first come first serve!!

Swipe ➡️ to the next image to learn how to clean Wild Mushrooms!!

Extra cleaning tip: Some people like to give their mushrooms a salt-water bath. 4 cups of water with 1tbsp salt should do the trick. But don’t soak for too long (10 min max) as this can make your mushrooms mushy. We like to skip this step but to each their own 🙂

07/19/2024

Storing your mushrooms properly is easy peasy!!

For short-term storage, simply keep them in a brown paper bag for up to a week in the fridge (some varieties like Lions Mane can stay fresh even longer than a week! But Pink Oysters only like to live 3-5 days 😭) We keep them in the compartment where the fruits and veggies live.

For long-term storage, mushrooms should be dried then stored in an air-tight container (we like glass jars) in a cool, dry place. You can use either a dehydrator or oven at 140f for 8-10 hours until they are crispy. Wild mushrooms should then be frozen for 3 days after drying, but this is NOT necessary for our cultivated one’s as they don’t have any critters in them. Once placed in their container, they can last up to 3 years!! They are incredibly shelf stable in this state.

You can also POWDER your mushrooms but our preferred process is a little more complicated so we will share that on a later post.

Hope this helps! As always, mush love!! 🍄‍🟫

07/18/2024

Hola friends!! It’s been hotter than Hades this year (our intake air reached 130f 🥵) but we are still managing to keep our mushrooms happy 🍄‍🟫 Just check out this beaut! Stay cool, everyone!!!

04/18/2024

Another article about our mushroom farm! 🤯🍄

https://lasvegas.citycast.fm/food-drink/desert-moon-mushrooms-las-vegas

Thanks to the wonderful for writing this cool piece and for sharing our story!

Enrique Gonzalez and Eva-Sara Luna founded Desert Moon Mushrooms in 2020 during a bout of pandemic boredom.

“We were just laying in bed,” Gonzalez told me on a recent tour of their business, the only full-fledged mushroom farm in Las Vegas.

“And I said, ‘Hey, do you wanna watch a movie or do you wanna think about a business plan?’”

“Literally that night, we’re like, ‘Let’s do a mushroom farm,’” Luna added.

“We (could’ve) watched a movie instead of starting a business.” Gonzalez laughed.

By the way, we are SO close to opening our store front and getting tours started 🤩

04/18/2024

Hey Las Vegas! It’s Fantastic Fungi‘s 5th anniversary and we will have the opportunity to watch it ✨remastered✨ at the Galaxy Theaters Boulevard Mall this Saturday at 7pm 🍄🎥 with a Post Screening Q & A with director Louie Schwartzberg!

04/17/2024

Thinking about that that one time we grew Pink Oysters and Blue Oysters on the same block 🤔😌✨

03/21/2024

We are hiring!!! Send us a resume

[email protected]

02/16/2024

Introducing….Angelica!! ✨🤍

My (EvaSara’s) little sister will be helping Daffy out on Saturday’s at the Downtown Summerlin Farmers Markets during rush our. She’s sweet, personable, helpful and all around a beautiful woman. Fun fact: Daffodil and Angelica have been friends for a while and are both professional dancers (not st*****rs, have to clarify, not that there’s anything wrong with that lol) We’re so proud of our amazing market ladies and I’m personally thrilled to have such powerful, strong and best of all kind women on our team 🍄✨ I’m constantly inspired by their innate creativity and we’ve been pumping out idea after idea so keep your ears open and eyes peeled for really fun things to come ✨

01/20/2024

Everyone, get to know Daffodil 🌼
She’s bright, vibrant, bubbly and one of my new favorite people to be around! She’s knowledgeable on all things mushrooms and dedicated as can be. 🍄 We are sure you’ll LOVE her just as much as we do!

Come meet her at all our markets and get your hands on some healthy, delicious, locally grown mushrooms 🍄

01/02/2024

Happy New Year everyone! 🐲

Our insta took a back burner for a bit, but only because we’re now growing and delivering mushrooms to every major Strip property 🎆🙏 This has taken every ounce of our time and energy to accomplish!

Speaking of accomplishments, we’re excited to announce that we’ve been selected to receive the Snail of Approval Award!! This means we practice Slow Food USA’s standard for good, clean, and fair food ✨🍄

Join us in celebrating! Thursday, January 4.
Tickets are available at slowfoodvegas.org

2023 Awardees:

09/04/2023

Our farmer friends LOVE our Spent Mushroom Substrate!! Here’s a big pile getting ready to be composted to make what many call a “Gardeners Gold”. This stuff is highly nutritious (both micro & macronutrient rich) and can be used as a slow release fertilizer or even as a mulch. And due to its higher water content, it helps to produce bigger yields…especially in crops grown in a drier climate like ours 🌵☀️

Now’s the best time to collect some blocks to start the composting process for use in spring season! 🌸

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