About Monterey Mushrooms

Monterey Mushrooms:
A 50-Year Legacy and a Purpose

Monterey Mushrooms has built a legacy as a mushroom grower. Our seven mushroom farms, located across North America, produce millions of pounds of fresh mushrooms every year.

Our purpose is to Enhance People’s Lives, and that starts at each Monterey Mushrooms farm with our vertically integrated affiliates and owned logistics fleet. We grow, harvest, package, and deliver the freshest mushrooms and mushroom products 365 days a year.

Operating year-round, we work hard to ensure that retailers, foodservice operators, distributors, and manufacturers have the consistency of supply and quality needed to satisfy their consumers and customers every day.

Why would you consider buying mushrooms from a farm across the country, or in another country, when you can source them fresh and ready from our U.S. locations or our farm in Central Mexico?

Our History

Founded in 1971, Monterey Mushrooms became a business when the company was purchased by Shah Kazemi, who began as an employee himself. Along the way, we introduced pre-packaged mushrooms for retailers, began growing USDA-certified organic mushrooms, developed sustainable packaging, and more. We’ve led innovation in the mushroom category for decades.

Today, thousands of teammates are proud to be part of our humble business that has been Enhancing People’s Lives for over 50 years. That’s right — 50 years!

Our Vision and Values

Our simple vision is to be the best integrated mushroom company in North America by efficiently delivering superior value to our customers and consumers. We do that by creating long-term value for customers, teammates, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate.

We work intentionally toward that vision with a firm team foundation. Our principles of trust, respect, integrity, shared vision, empowerment, teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement spur our actions every day as we work to achieve our purpose.

Our Purpose

When we reached the significant milestone of 50 years in business, we celebrated by formalizing what we had been doing for the past five decades with a company purpose statement:

We Enhance People's Lives

We embrace a collaborative, diverse, and supportive work environment
We provide satisfying jobs with a family- and community-oriented culture
We provide best-in-class customer service, support, and solutions
We delight our consumers with wholesome, safe, and healthy products
We grow, harvest, and pack high-quality products that are nutritious, flavorful, convenient, and sustainable

We’ve been Enhancing People’s Lives for over 50 years, and we believe the best is yet to come.

Making Sure You Have Mushrooms Where You Need Them

In our hearts, we’re humble farmers. We’re proud of our continent-wide reach from Monterey Mushrooms locations all across North America — from coast to coast and Mexico — Enhancing People’s Lives.

Because we operate our own vertically integrated supply chain, we produce our products with the utmost quality and consistency. Our mushrooms are shipped where people need them, quickly and efficiently. We accomplish this with our more than 100 dedicated trucks on the road every day.

Community Engagement

Out in the world, Monterey Mushrooms is proud to participate in mushroom festivals, serving up our fresh mushrooms in Portabella tacos or blended sliders and donating our proceeds to local charities. Our teammates across the continent give back to their local communities in different ways, such as serving meals together at local soup kitchens and donating to local holiday toy drives.

We also love educating consumers on the nutrition and sustainability of the mighty mushroom through our ebooks, cookbooks, and fun mushroom-themed activities.

Scholarships

A good farmer tends their crops. At Monterey Mushrooms, that means giving each other — and our families — what they need to grow. So that’s exactly what we do. We don’t just grow mushrooms, we grow people.

Community engagement is a passion of Monterey’s CEO Shah Kazemi, and the company awards annual scholarships to the dependent children of full-time employees in a program that honors Carl Victor Fields, the company’s former Vice President of Marketing.

Since 1992, nearly $4 million has been granted.

About Monterey Mushrooms^®