FUNGHI ESPRESSO

The coffee ground is a perfect substrate for growing mushrooms, because it contains minerals and useful nutrients for their growth: what appears a gap can actually become a resource! This idea has Mushrooms Espresso, a start up agricultural inspired by the theories of the Blue Economy, in which the waste from a production cycle do not become waste, but generate new energy, new wealth and new jobs. We Mushroom Espresso we are inspired by nature. For this we grow and produce our mushrooms with methods that have an impact on the environment virtually zero.

We collect an Italian resource: the coffee grounds. In Italy there are 110 thousand bars that produce it every year 300 thousand tons! We help bars to highlight what otherwise would become a waste: select exercises close to our production site and whenever possible we favor transport environmentally friendly vehicles … like our legs!

We use coffee ground as growing media, combining it with the “seed” of the mushroom. All in a completely natural way, without the use of chemical products. We grow our mushrooms vertically, suspended on supports, reducing land use: compared to traditional crops, we use half the space to grow the same amount of mushrooms. The bottom of coffee does not need to be pasteurized, with a considerable saving of energy. And after use returns to the soil as compost

Cultivating mushrooms with mushroom kit Espresso is so easy that a child can do it