About Desert Pearl Mushrooms
Locally-Grown Fresh, Wild-Foraged, Dried Mushrooms, and Supplies
Tucson's Specialty Culinary and Medicinal Mushroom Producer
Our farm produces a rotating variety of fresh gourmet mushrooms, mostly centered around tree-borne species that grow in colder, wetter climates - but here locally in Southern Arizona! We produce everything indoors using modern controlled environment agriculture techniques and practices. Basically, we're a modern indoor mushroom farm. By carefully adjusting temperature, lighting, and humidity, we can simulate the natural growing conditions of many kinds of mushrooms that grow in higher elevations and different regions of the country.
We sell our fresh and dried mushrooms mostly to restaurants, local grocers and distributors, as well as directly to consumers at our local farmers' markets in the Greater Tucson Area. See some photos below of a few of our clients' creations.
John and Kris (Photo by Taylor Noel Photography)
John and Kris
(Photo by Taylor Noel Photography)
Variety Is The Spice Of Life
Rotating genetics (Photo by Taylor Noel Photography)
We cycle through many types of culinary mushrooms: Oyster varieties like Pearl, Blue, King Blue, Black-King, Gold, and Pink oyster mushrooms; Hericium varieties like Lion's Mane and Coral Tooth; and other specialty mushrooms like Shiitake, Chestnut mushrooms, Golden Enoki, Pioppino, and more. We also produce a selection of medicinal ones in-house such as Reishi, Turkey Tail, and Cordyceps. We maintain a genetics library of over 30 unique mushrooms that we propagate throughout the year.
Occasionally, we'll work with foraging partners to gather other kinds of mushrooms that can only be sustainably sourced in nature like Chaga or Morel mushrooms and brought back to Arizona.
Rotating genetics
(Photo by Taylor Noel Photography)
Shop Our Products—Or Message Us For More Options
In addition to fresh mushrooms, we also produce dried mushrooms, ground or powdered mushrooms, mushroom extract tinctures, and an assortment of growing supplies and materials. Some of our non-perishable products are available from our online store, but don't hesitate to reach out for anything you don't see on our site that you'd like us to produce for you—and we may already have it in stock!
We are open to special requests or made-to-order items and have experience with plate culture, liquid culture, sterilized substrates and various growing media, and other grow supplies.
Please don't hesitate to ask, as we would be happy to work with you! :)
