Social vegetable gardening

In 2022 and 2023, we tried out various ways with Social Work students from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences to connect people who would like a vegetable garden but do not have a garden themselves, with people with a garden who cannot maintain it themselves. Here  you will find more information about what we have discovered and how we want to move forward.     

 School assignment for research & design 

Find out what options children and young people in your own neighborhood have to maintain a vegetable garden and why this is sometimes not possible. Are there people with a large garden who would like it if a group of children or young people come to their vegetable garden? How can children and their parents or young people find those people with a garden?

Is the website Buurnatuur030.nl    a good way to bring supply and demand together?

Find out which courses Utrecht Natuurlijk offers to children and young people who want to learn how to garden. Are you not satisfied? Give  your advice on how they can improve those courses. Does it seem like something to you? Contact us:    ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl

Sustainable living for young people

We are looking for new ways to ask children and young people up to the age of 18 what they want to do about sustainability and then teach them how they can live more sustainably themselves.

Attention: a team of students and researchers can apply for up to 1000 euro per student for a proposal targeting the challenge Young people live sustainably.

Read more and submit your application by the deadline via the website indusac.eu

This is what we have done so far: Students who completed a social internship in the 2022-2023 school year have written pieces for our instagram account, but we haven't kept track of it and there are few followers.   

Last year, a group of Social Work students from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences interviewed children and their parents in Lunetten about sustainable living and developed the 'drietet' game

 (a kind of quartet, but with three cards). We tested the game with students from Bonifatius College and distributed a number of copies to parents and teachers.

School assignment for Research & Design 

Interview fellow students and their parents about sustainable living, make your own plan for a campaign via social media or develop a game about sustainable living that you enjoy playing.  Does it seem like something to you or do you have an idea of your own? Please contact  

 ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl 

Organic food on a budget

In 2022 and 2023 we investigated the need for organic and sustainable food of people with limited means in Lunetten. Read here more about this trial of subsidized organic groceries.    

 The challenge: organic food for all of Utrecht

Are you looking for an assignment for your study or internship and would you like to contribute to the challenge of making organic food possible for all of Utrecht? Join one of our initiatives  in the roadmap Organic food with a narrow budget by 2030. Do you have an idea which is not yet included? Let us know: ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl. We will then add your sub-project to the roadmap. 

In any case, we want to take new steps with relevant organizations in Lunetten in 2024. Do you like good food and would you like to taste organic recipes from neighbors? Then cooperate with us on the cookbook Organic food on a low budget in Lunetten.

In Kanaleneiland we let local residents taste organic food from May to September 2024. We share the results with the municipal council, people and organizations in the neighborhood. In consultation with local residents, we want to ensure that people with little money can buy or receive organic, sustainable and healthy food on Kanaleneiland more often.

Sustainable living with a disability

A participant in the Yuth Festival wants to make sustainable living possible for people with disabilities, for example, aids made from sustainable materials.

Study assignment for students on practical training courses:

Talk to young people with disabilities in your own environment, ask them how they want to live more sustainably and develop a prototype for a sustainable tool in co-creation with them.

Present your prototype during a workshop that we organize together. Do you want to know more? mail ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl