Noodhulp Nederland was called before The Gift Foundation, it is a national network in the Netherlands of provincial contact points to help people living in poverty. It aims to help both on material and immaterial level, as welll as on reducing isolation and solitude. The Noodhulp works by using social media like Hyves and Facebook and the Web, to connect people. Needs and gifts can be advertised on an online marketplace. Help is also offered to collect and bring the goods. Main principle is that no money is asked or transferred, all goods and services are on free gift basis. The Gift Foundation is founded in 2010 by Lucia Amaya. A recent project around food is ‘share your garden’. This project aims to connect people together with surplus from the garden. To support poor people by setting up gardens and sharing the surplus.
http://www.noodhulpnl.nl/
Responsible for the project Future of Food is Monique Wijn. She is founder of the project ‘the Goddess, edible Landscape’, based on raising awareness, facilitating and educating on aspects of edible wild plants, permaculture, rawfood and health. The Goddess has several gardens based on organic agriculture and permaculture, growing edible wild plants and seeds of (pre)historic varieties of vegetables and cereals, edible flowers and fruits.
The Goddess organises courses on nutrition and raw food, permaculture and selfsustaining lifestyles and transition to resilience. Recently she is involved in several national and international projects.
Contact: info@degodin.nl, website: www.degodin.nl. Blog: http://degodin.wordpress.com/
Monique (1958) is fascinated with food since a long time. She studied biology and became a vegetarian in that time. Food was her main topic, with to environmental health and complementary medicine. She worked in nutrition education creating educational materials for analphabetic mediterranean women in the Netherlands. In the ninetees she leaded a green consumer organisation raising awareness on the ecological and social impacts of food production. She leaded campaigns on the risk of genetic engineering and radiation of food; on the impact of global transport of food; on agri-biodiversity and on oestrogenes in food.
For her, healthy food is only truly healthy if it is at the same time healthy for plants, animals and the planet. For this she studied biodynamic agriculture, permaculture and agroforestry. Since 12 years she is a gardener and has a diet of mostly raw, vegan and wild plants.
She wants to explore the relation of food and health on all four dimensions (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual) and the relation of food and consciousness. Questions like: what is food? Beyond the physical reality, like light and energy. Recently she is involved in the transition movement: how local food production and urban gardening can contribute in creating sustainable and resilient communities.
On the thursday morning in Sieben Linden we had a talk and a walk on the topic of permaculture. After a general introduction by Monique, we visited the garden plots of Jörg and Julia and their community. Here we could see raised beds with a lot of vegetables and herbs growing together in synergy. They also […]
What is needed to grow healthy food ? World café during FoF stay in Spain autumn 2013. In one World Café we discussed in small groups the question ‘What is needed to grow healthy food?’. On a big paper we wrote down our thoughts and explained to each other what we ment. For example someone […]
On the 8th and 9th of March 2014 I was co-organiser of the third edition of the ‘Reclaim the seeds’ festival in the Netherlands. This was held at the beautifull Botanical Garden in Haren, Groningen. The first and second event, in 2012 in Amsterdam and 2013 in Den Bosch were allready very well visited, but the over […]
In the Spanish meeting we used several techniques to involve everyone on an equal basis in the process. One of the powerful tools to promote collective creativity is the world café. We used the World Café to work in small groups on the brainstorming and planning of the products we intend to make during the […]
Reclaim the Seeds 2014 in Groningen & Haren I am currently co-organising a national seed-event in the Netherlands: The Reclaim the Seeds Weekend of 2014 will be taking place on Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th of March 2014 in Groningen, in the north-east of the Netherlands. This is the third edition, following previous […]
Creating delicious food in Spain November 2013 For four days we came together and active shared ideas and recipes during lunch and dinner preparation times, about 4,5 hours a day to give an idea about the time spend on this by different participants. We learned many things about gorgeous looking and tasting food, fully made […]
This is a little story of our visit to the farm and hotel in northern Spain: Posada del Valle in Arriondas, Spain, near Picos de Europa. On the14th of November 2013, our first day of visit,we make a tour on the farm. It is a cold crispy frosty automn morning. Special of this farm is […]
At the kickoff meeting in Hungary we had delicious meals, both cooked and raw vegan, by the Hungarian chef Petr Peter Hortobágyi.. ..who was in the past running a floreshing restaurant in Leeds and is now cooking for many groups in Hungary, like summercamps of Roma children… First day Second day Soup and main […]
In the kickoff meeting in Hungary we worked together to create a common vision on the four fields of the project: 1 collecting and growing 2 preparation of food 3 eating and sharing 4 communication and education Elements where used from different cocreating techniques, like Dragon Dreaming and Worldcafé. Step 1: brainstorming We divided ourselves […]