Turning Waste into Wages: Using Recycled Coffee Grounds to Grow Gourmet Mushrooms

"Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer" GUEST: Nikhil Arora, co-founder of Back to the Roots talks about how he started his 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm that transforms coffee ground waste into the growing medium for gourmet mushrooms. This year alone his company will collect and reuse 1 million lbs. of used coffee grounds (from Peet's Coffee) and use it to grow over 250,000 lbs of gourmet mushrooms. www.backtotheroots.com

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