But they have just seven days to raise another $6560 to realise it.
The 27-year-old health science professionals want to create Australia’s first urban mushroom farm using coffee grounds from Fremantle’s cafes to grow organic oyster mushrooms to sell to shops, restaurants, markets and online.
The pair need an unused commercial space and to raise $30,000 through crowd-funding. Yesterday, they had $23,440, including $15,000 from the City of Fremantle.
“If we can get up and running, we will literally ride around Fremantle and collect coffee grounds from about 70 cafes and coffee shops,” Mr Creed said.
The mushrooms take about eight weeks to grow and then the grindings will be used to improve local gardens.
Mr Mitchell said about 300 tonnes of coffee waste was sent to landfill from Fremantle every year. “Our solution is as valid to the prominent coffee culture of Fremantle as it is to any other city,” he said.
“Current practice sees coffee ground being mixed with other rubbish and taken to landfill.
“This waste of a valuable resource is needlessly adding to the waste disposal problems of our city and of our culture.”
The pair met playing football in Bunbury. They are fly-in, fly-out workers at Paraburdoo and still play for Cottesloe Roosters.
The Queen Victoria Street cafe Gesha has already signed on to take mushrooms for its breakfast menu.
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