Dreaming on.....

Working together on making something beautiful of a former unused or under-used area. Let’s talk about the dream which for more than a ...

Food in the Streets eats ZUP

In in Via Cenni (Milano) the first seeds are planted  It is time to break the silence that Food in the Streets left you with in the la...

Learning from the lesson

Close followers might have seen that Food in the Streets shared her ideas with a group of American students. A new experience and an...

New!

Work in proces, but results will be presented soon Food in the Streets goes serious. For almost three (!) years now, I use this blog ...

An urban farm tour – Day II

Real food is growing in the Nutstuin After speed-visits in the Dutch cities of Eindhoven en Utrecht, I took some more time to visit...

An urban farm tour – Day I

The Tuinfabriek at Utrecht Central Station It was the best time of the year to do it. Harvest is ready to be picked while outside ...

From the field to your doorstep

‘They’ want to bring farmers closer to their clients. The supply needs to get closer to the demands. Interesting. I’ve already talked ...

The diversity of urban farmers

Guerilla gardening in Bologna Finally I’ve made it. A short break and a full agenda didn’t allow me to give you the so wanted examples o...

A short history

After I discussed some examples of growing food in the cities, I think it is now time to look back. Not because I am such a traditiona...

How to grow food in the city

Don’t expect a solution after reading this title. This post is to inspire you. I did some research, talked to some people and collecte...

The Dutch examples

Creativity is needed when space is scarce Oke. Let’s start this research on green in the city in The Netherlands. The country I’ve l...

Where is the green

This garden shows that you don't need that much space to grow food Ok. This is maybe not the time to complain about a lack of gr...

Food for thought

Vote with your fork! It seems easier to say this than to practice. I guess sometimes you feel really happy when you come home with a...

Place making

A run down area is now the centre of a large event What is the most used way to convince a kid to behave the way it should? Yes, to p...

Hot or not

Villa Augustus in the Dutch town Dordrecht is immensely popular by all kind of people I already announced that this weeks’ post will...

Dirty hands

Some months ago I already told about my do-it-yourself-food-growing project . The project is running well and my boyfriend and I hav...

The farmer next door

Food used to enter the city on its own feet. Farmers took their livestock from the countryside to central markets and sold them dead o...

Something is growing

A chicken freely walking around in an (sub)urban farm It is Easter. The time that the sun appears, trees start to flower and the first b...

One big fridge

How do you do your weekly food shopping? You do buy each day what you feel like? Or do you make a list and bring some big bags to fill up y...