Organic groceries

Subsidized organic groceries

Information about the trial with subsidized organic groceries on Kanaleneiland in 2024.

On Friday mornings, May 17, June 14, July 12, and August 2, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., we will hand out vouchers at Bij Bosshardt, Marco Pololaan 10, Kanaleneiland, with which you can buy organic produce at city farm Eilandsteede and Food for Good in Transwijk park. We will collect responses from participants in a draft report and discuss it with them on Friday, September 13 between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. We will publish the final report and give it to the municipality and to anyone who is interested. Read more in this flyer.


Workshop Organic food with a low budget

On 8 April 2024, we organised a workshop on Organic food for low income people in the Social Impact Factory aan de Gracht in Utrecht. Read the report here.

Partner contributions:

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AERES University of Applied Sciences: recently published a collection of essays "Oyster salons, bakkeljauwbitterballen and donut shops".


Environmental Center Utrecht presented the updated list of sustainable stores on October 16, 2023: Duurzamer030.nl

Results of the trial with subsidized organic groceries in Lunetten in 2023

We handed out gift vouchers for organic and sustainable products in the Limoenz Foundation giveaway shop, Treek 15 in Utrecht-Lunetten, on these Tuesday mornings: June 13, July 4, August 1, September 5, and October 3 and 17, 2023. On September 7, We also came to the giveaway shop between 10 and 12 o'clock and on September 17 we also had a stall at the Harvest Festival at Koppelsteede. Read the report here.

On November 7, 2023, we talked to fourteen people about the report in the giveaway shop.

On November 27, 2023, intern Elizabete discussed the draft recommendations with six participants in the workshop Make sustainable living possible with a small budget, in the Social Impact Factory on the Gracht.

On December 15, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Elizabete presented the final report to approximately 30 participants, including a member of the city council, during the meeting "Organic food for all of Utrecht" in the Dom Church. Read the summary here.

On January 30, 2024, we provided the participants in the trial in Lunetten with a copy of the definitive final report in Dutch and English at the Wij3.0 giveaway shop (Treek 15). On February 8, 2024, 9:45-10:00 am, we presented a petition to the Utrecht city council at city hall. The petition will be on the agenda of the council committee for Youth, Welfare, Culture and Sport on March 7, 2024.

On April 8, 2024, we organized a workshop on Organic Food with a small budget in the Social Impact Factory on the Gracht, with 23 participants.

We will repeat the test on Kanaleneiland from May to September 2024 (see left column). We are also looking for concrete opportunities for follow-up activities in Lunetten in 2024.


This trial was made possible by subsidies from the Initiatives Fund of the municipality of Utrecht, the Catholic Caritas Utrecht and part of the third prize of the Mantel van Sint Maarten 2022.

With this we build on the research 'Sustainable Utrecht 2030 - subsidizing organic and sustainable fruit and vegetables' by Jinte van Eijk, Teun Hartstra, Tymen Swets, Niels Hoevenberg and Maud Rampaart (Environmental Science students at HAS University of Applied Sciences).


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