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Back to the Roots Grow-Your- Own Mushroom Garden
This garden is low-maintenance, fast-growing and eco-friendly.
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Inspired to turn waste into wages and fresh, local food, former UC Berkeley students Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora heard of an idea to potentially grow gourmet mushrooms on 100 percent recycled coffee grounds. After some experimentation in their fraternity kitchen resulting in a successful test bucket of pearl oyster mushrooms, and a $5,000 grant from the university’s chancellor, Velez and Arora became full-time urban mushroom farmers and created DIY mushroom-garden kits. Each kit can grow up to one and a half pounds of mushrooms in as little as 10 days and is a 100 percent sustainable product. Just mist twice a day and watch nature do its thing. The founding duo is on track to collect, divert and reuse 1 million pounds of coffee grounds this year, courtesy of Peet’s Coffee & Tea.—Nicole Denis
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