Francois Moutou

I've been working in the video game industry for 15 years, but for the last ten years, I have been doing lots of research on everything related to self-sufficient living including food, energy, shelters.

In the meantime, I started a project called 'illucens' with a couple of friends:
a circular economy gig going from processing Brewer's spent grains with Black Soldier Flies Larvaes that are fed to fishes that grow veggies that are then eventually pickled and sold while the kitchen scrap are fed back to the BSFL.

It was as complicated as it sounds and couldn't be scaled beyond a few prototypes. That's when I got a training to become a 'compost master' and started getting involved in a citizen-operated green haven in the middle of Paris. We do 30tons of compost a year thanks to volunteers. So we recreate soil and keep planting the land that used to be all concrete. More info on the TEP Ménilmontant Facebook page.

Finally, in the last few years past-covid, I eventually managed to get a new playground in the shape of a family-owned small farm in the South Werstern part of France. Since then, I embarked in a permaculture journey to turn all I learned into actual design and practice.