Mars-la-Tour. Mushroom grower, a rare profession that requires cunning

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Mars-la-Tour. Mushroom grower, a rare profession that requires cunning

Mars-la-Tour. Mushroom grower, a rare profession that requires cunning

"Mushroom grower, mushroom farmer... You can call it what you like," smiles Jonathan Giacoia, who lives in Mars-la-Tour. For a little over a year and a half, he has been producing oyster mushrooms (and other wild mushrooms), which he sells to individuals and restaurants. A challenge that requires skill and ingenuity.
Jonathan Giacoia takes a piece of mycelium from his Petri dish, which he then inserts into a substrate he has prepared himself. This is his promise: he does everything himself. Photo by Marie Koenig
Jonathan Giacoia takes a piece of mycelium from his Petri dish, which he then inserts into a substrate he has prepared himself. This is his promise: he does everything himself. Photo Marie Koenig

Hidden away in a large, seemingly simple barn in Mars-la-Tour is a rather unusual laboratory. Jonathan Giacoia, supported by his partner Loriane Erba, produces wild mushrooms there. A career change—they were both formerly a security guard and a nurse, respectively—was born out of a shared challenge. "We signed up for a training course with our CPF accounts at the agricultural high school in Montmorot (in the Jura region, editor's note) ," says the young man. Why mushrooms and not...

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