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FUNGHI ESPRESSO PRODUTTORI FUNGHI, company that produces fresh mushrooms in a completely natural and sustainable. It uses the coffee fund coming from the bars and restaurants of the territory as a substrate for the cultivation. Beyond the production of fresh mushrooms, mushrooms Espresso is also qualified in the substrate production ready for cultivation of mushrooms.

The road that led to the conception of Mushrooms Expressed begins in 2013, when Rossano Ercolini, coordinator of the Zero Waste of Capannori Center and winner of the Goldman Prize in 2013, opens the case study on the fund reuse coffee in agriculture . It is thus realized the pilot project of environmental education: “Since coffee Proteins“. This has given rise to the adventure of mushrooms Espresso.

Mushrooms in the Espresso system there are no waste but resources. The substrate after the cultivation finished become an excellent organic fertilizer for agriculture, thus closing the coffee cycle. Through this methodology, it is now possible to grow mushrooms from coffee grounds. The coffee grounds are a perfect underlying starto for growing mushrooms, as it contains minerals and useful nutrients for their growth. What seems 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 Mushrooms Kit Espresso. 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 effectively zero.

Mushroom Espresso reap what is an entirely Italian resource. There are, in Italy, 119 thousand bars that produce it every year 300 thousand tons. We help bar to value what otherwise would become a waste. All exercises are selected close to our production site.