Learn how to grow mushrooms with coffee waste! Volunteering in France
INITIATIVE ET DEVELOPPEMENT CITOYEN
Carcassonne, France
Description
We are looking for 2 mushroom lovers, who will work in this circular economy project called Café Vert! This project started years ago, with formation and lots of experimentation, and since 2020, our ESC volunteers are part of this experience. In this project especifically, we will reuse waste to create new life. You will collect coffee waste from cafés and restaurants (by bike!) and mix it with mycellieum to grow oyster mushrooms. Then monitor their growth, and take them to the fruiting room for then be harvested and sold in a local market. And after harvesting, we use that new “waste” in our earth-worm farm, which is great to create new and rich soil for plants. Infopack: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p2qn87gm761o0k4uwccj0/IDC_MushroomsGrowers3_2025.pdf?rlkey=0ure37wk5kevtmavc98dpbm7n&st=3rciekpu&dl=0
Modalités d'hébergement, de restauration et de transport
Volunteers will stay in shared rooms with other person of the same sex, in an appartment in the city center of Carcassonne (just some meters from the main square!). All the transport from the city to the fruiting room and related to the activities, is covered. Volunteers will share the common tasks of cleaning, cooking and arranging the place. We will give the food budget so that volunteers can make their own shopping. We don’t buy industrial food and we try to eat as local and seasonal as possible. And of course, we eat very, very local, eco and fresh mushrooms!
Formation pendant l’activité
Volunteers will learn how to grow mushrooms from coffee waste (from the collection step to the selling of the products), how to structure and communicate workshops and events in our eco-boutique (optional, depending on the season and profiles), how to participate in local markets, and they will learn different sustainable practices to be more ethical and respectful with the environment. They will be able to lead them after or to propose new ideas/projects around sustainability, local and organic agriculture, intercultural exchange...
Profil du participant
We are looking for youngsters who want to invest themselves in a new life experience, with lots of challenges and learnings! Motivation to learn how to grow mushrooms is a must! The activities are a bit of a routine, but it demands lots of observation in the details to make sure that the production will go as planned. There is also space for creativity and new ideas, in terms of improvement of the activities, creating cool online content to share the project, creating events, etc. French is a bonus! ** Volunteers can stay up to one year in the mission. Let us know your availability!! We ask for a minimum of 6 months.
Dates de l’activité
Du 13/05/2025 au 30/11/2025
Lieu de l’activité
Carcassonne, France
Type d’activité
Volontariat individuel
Nous recherchons des participants venus de
Allemagne, Belgique, Bulgarie, Croatie, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Grèce, Italie, Lituanie, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Portugal, Roumanie, Suède, Tchéquie
Thèmes de l’activité
Environment and natural protection
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures
Délai de dépôt de candidature: 27/04/2025 15:44