Information about the trial with subsidized organic groceries on Kanaleneiland in 2024. Download the report by Noor Ul Ain here or from ZENODO.

On Friday mornings, May 17, June 14, July 12, and August 2, AND ADDITIONALLY ON MONDAY MORNING 2 SEPTEMBER, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., we handed out vouchers at Bij Bosshardt, Marco Pololaan 10, Kanaleneiland, with which visitors could buy organic produce at city farm Eilandsteede and Food for Good in Transwijk park, and at the mobile shop of Loos Utrecht, parked next to Bij Bosshardt at that time. We collected responses from participants in a draft report and discussed the draft conclusions and recommendations with them on Friday, September 13 between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. During the Harvest festival in city farm Eilandsteede on 22 September, we collected more feedback from participants.

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.

Organic food in Lunetten

On 6 May 2024, we discussed the first steps of a roadmap towards accessible organic, sustainable and healthy food for inhabitants of Lunetten with representatives of City Farm Koppelsteede and allotment garden complex ATV Utrecht Zuid.

On June 4, 2024, we discussed this further with a dozen visitors to the WIJ3.0 giveaway shop . We came up with a new initiative for a cookbook Organic food with a small budget in Lunetten, and on July 9, 2024, we agreed on more concrete plans in the giveaway shop.

After the summer we will make a start with cooking and eating each others' favorite recipes, taking beautiful pictures and writing short articles, which we will initially publish on this website. You are very welcome to join us, especially if you want to eat delicious and affordable organic food, are a kitchen princess or prince, are good at writing or photography, or want to publish the book.

Download the roadmap here. Join us and contact ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl for more info.

Response of the Municipal Executive to our petition on organic food with a low budget.

For your convenience, we machine translated it in English, but only the original Dutch version is official.

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).