Bixente Luquin Ayerdi (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1984) is a Technical Forestry Engineer and Forestry Engineer, as well as a Higher Technician in Natural Resources and Landscape Management. He currently works as a teacher at the II Agroforestry School of Pamplona, the same school where he began his professional career.
His link with the mountains and mycology began in his childhood, when he used to go mushroom picking with his family in autumn. This curiosity for nature and mushrooms deepened over the years and during his university years he embarked on a project to understand why mushrooms grew in the forest. This was the starting point for him to make his way into mycology.
Bixente has developed several projects raising edible saprophytic fungi on wood, creating three mycological gardens. In all these projects he has tried to combine landscaping, gardening, forestry, sustainable forestry products, waste reuse, gastronomy and environmental education. The aim of his work has been to imitate natural processes in order to bring mycology closer to urban green spaces.
At present, it continues to work on dissemination and research work on mycology and forestry, as well as bringing the importance of these subjects and their practical applications closer to students and the community.