About Us
Our Story
We’re two “fun guys,” Mike Garcia and Rickey Boudreaux, originally from the Westbank of New Orleans. Through the years of working in the New Orleans restaurant industry, we noticed one major thing missing from the kitchen’s staple ingredients: farm-to-table mushrooms. In 2019, we stepped away from our service-industry careers and started Mycelium Express. Mycelium is the network of life of all fungus, and Express is from the delivery service in the sitcom Futurama. Our goal is to grow and provide gourmet mushrooms to all chefs, professional and amateur, in the New Orleans area. Mushrooms require consistently low temperatures year-round, and to achieve this, everything is grown indoors in a sterile environment on sawdust blocks. It’s been a challenge with Louisiana’s heat and humidity one day to freezing lows the next. Over the years, we have perfected our growing and harvesting process and have expanded our operations to Pearl River, Louisiana. By joining local Farmers Markets and partnering with chefs all around the region, we are now able to consistently supply the freshest farm-to-table gourmet mushrooms to the New Orleans and Gulf Coast regions.
