If you wanted to explain the circular economy to a preschooler, you might say something like this: Natan Jacquemin collects used coffee grounds from cafés, uses them as soil to grow mushrooms, and then sells those mushrooms back to the cafés to put in their clients’ meals.
Now his company, Nãm, also sells big, earthy oyster mushrooms to a variety of restaurants, boutique grocery stores, and farmers’ markets like Santos Collective and Comida Independente’s market at Praça São Paulo in Lisbon.
It’s become a big business—now Natan and his partners transform three tons of coffee grounds into one ton of organic mushrooms per month, thanks in part to a partnership with Delta coffee—but it’s still all happening at his urban farm, which started at Largo do Intendente and grew into a bigger space in Marvila.
Along with the fresh mushrooms, the online shops sells guided visits to the urban farm, grow-at-home kits, and flavor-packed dried mushrooms.
For more information, visit the Nãm website.
Nãm
Email: nam.mushroomfarm@gmail.com
