Funghi Espresso is an innovative business that produces fresh mushrooms in a sustainable and natural way, using coffee grounds (coffee waste) from local bars and restaurants as a growing medium.

The Funghi Espresso model:

• The cycle starts with the coffee grounds, which are collected from the bars of Tuscany.
• The coffee grounds are used with coffee silver skin, another coffee byproduct, to produce an ideal substrate for growing oyster mushrooms.
• Once the mushrooms have grown, the exhausted substrate is regenerated through worm composting, yielding earthworm humus and earthworms.
• The humus is used as an organic soil improver and the earthworms are used as fish feed.
• Water containing fish waste can be used for hydroponic vegetable cultivation.