Hi! My name’s Filippo, I come from northern Italy in a little village close to Turin. I’m 27 years old. I’m a long term volonteer for IDC. I discovered this project on the european solidarity corps website. I was surfing on this portal to looking some place in Europe to spend a few month. When I saw the title of this project: Mushrooms growers! This immediatly caught my attention. I thought that I couldn’t be so crazy to send a request.. that’s the reason why I’m here.
Speaking seriously I really love the amazing world of fungi, I studied it a lot during my biology studies. Fungis has lots of applications and most of them are very useful and creative, for example they can be used to clean the polluted matrices. One of the application that we use is using the coffee waste to product mushrooms, could seems so wierd but in a context of circular economy is one the best consistent things, expecially for a future perspective, in fact, one of the biggest challenge for the future is trying to reuse all the waste (waste gets better!), expecially that one wich still has energy inside, this energy can be used not only by mushrooms but also by others microrganisms. In this project that kind of chemical energy can sustain a community thanks to the growth of mushrooms. Sometimes I think that, starting from an easy action like collect coffee waste to obtain mushrooms is so satisfying and let me think about how much waste we throw away that potentially could offer us an alimentary return but not only, as I said the applications can be more and more.
An other aspect that I love about this project is the market. But let me axplain well.. After the mushrooms growth we sell them fresh (mushrooms love so much when we spread their spores everywhere) or, most important, fried. I can’t describe to you how good they are, also this part is so satisfying for your senses.
I’m so glad to have joined this project and for the wounderful people I met and I will meet in the next months. Remember that “the core of humans’ spirit comes from new experiences”.
