INITIATIVE ET DEVELOPPEMENT CITOYEN Carcassonne, France Volunteer opportunity: URGENT :) Collect coffee waste and grow mushrooms! Short term missions
We are urgently looking for 2 more mushroom lovers (for 2 months), who will work in this circular economy project called Café Vert! Since 2020, our ESC volunteers are part of this experience. Our cooperative IDC's projects aim to raise awareness about the actual context we are living and to propose and create solutions to be part of a positive change in a social, cultural and environmental aspect. 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, harvest and sell them 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=twtdla3l&dl=0 Accommodation, food and transport arrangements Volunteers will stay in shared rooms with other person of the same sex, in an appartment or house in the city center of Carcassonne. All the transport from the city to the eco-place, related to the activities, are 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 the 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! Volunteers will go 2 times per week to Gardie to help in the eco-place. Training during the activity Volunteers will learn how to grow mushrooms from coffee waste (from the collection step to the selling of the products), 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... Participant profile 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 content to share the project, creating events, etc. French is a bonus! Dates: for short terms, from February to April (2 months). For long terms, from April (it could be before) to December 2026.
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