Professional training & preparation in Feb/March
Our expert gardeners at Soontiens (our partner and supplier of fruit trees/berries) will organize a kitchen garden workshop for us. It will happen on 3 Saturdays spread across the coming 2 months. The cost for all 3 workshop days incl. coffee/tea and a starter package will be 85 EUR per person – cheaper if we sign up with more than 15 people. In order to plan the course, please indicate your interest and availability by filling in this doodle. More info can be found here.
Giving the garden personality
We want to invent a fictional character who represents our garden to make communication more personal and fun. So instead of ‘HTC community garden’ we suggest to move to something like ‘Lucy’s garden’, with Lucy the curious little girl who wants to live a sustainable lifestyle, but needs the brains of the smartest square kilometer to help her. We would fill her character with the identity that we wish to create and speak through her to the campus companies and residents.
Pollination and honey
A thriving garden needs many workers – preferably not humans. We have an expert beekeeper in our group who is getting ready to set up a couple of beehives in the garden to pollinate our plants and produce the first ever HTC honey.
A thriving garden needs many workers – preferably not humans. We have an expert beekeeper in our group who is getting ready to set up a couple of beehives in the garden to pollinate our plants and produce the first ever HTC honey.
Partnering with the Color Kitchen
The new catering setup at the Strip includes the Color Kitchen, a program to give marginalized young people a chance to get into the Horeca trade. They get training and cook at the Grand Café – and are ready to learn with us about the origin of good food and about composting kitchen scraps – including possibly mushroom growing on used coffee ground. Furthermore, for their daily changing menu the Color Kitchen would like to purchase fresh local herbs and vegetables from the garden – giving us some income to invest in growing our project and a great proposition for their customers.
The new catering setup at the Strip includes the Color Kitchen, a program to give marginalized young people a chance to get into the Horeca trade. They get training and cook at the Grand Café – and are ready to learn with us about the origin of good food and about composting kitchen scraps – including possibly mushroom growing on used coffee ground. Furthermore, for their daily changing menu the Color Kitchen would like to purchase fresh local herbs and vegetables from the garden – giving us some income to invest in growing our project and a great proposition for their customers.
Seeding out
The garden is our experimental playground for learning. Serious food production for you and your family has to come from elsewhere – preferably from your home garden. We see a great role for the garden (community) to kickstart personal gardens. This can be through giving out seedlings that we produce ourselves from seed and also directly helping people to set up their gardens at home. So, instead of buying tomato plants at Praxis, campus residents could support the garden by buying seedlings from us in the spring.
The garden is our experimental playground for learning. Serious food production for you and your family has to come from elsewhere – preferably from your home garden. We see a great role for the garden (community) to kickstart personal gardens. This can be through giving out seedlings that we produce ourselves from seed and also directly helping people to set up their gardens at home. So, instead of buying tomato plants at Praxis, campus residents could support the garden by buying seedlings from us in the spring.
Sourcing in
Another way to get great fresh food for home is through community supported agriculture – subscribing to a weekly vegetable box with a local farmer. We could partner with a farmer to provide easy pick-up of weekly vegetable boxes at the campus, making it super convenient to test this concept if you haven’t done so already.
Another way to get great fresh food for home is through community supported agriculture – subscribing to a weekly vegetable box with a local farmer. We could partner with a farmer to provide easy pick-up of weekly vegetable boxes at the campus, making it super convenient to test this concept if you haven’t done so already.
The salad factory
Philips City Farming is developing integral lighting and growing environments for food production in the city. They have moved now to the campus and we are discussing the possibility of placing a shipping container that contains a growing factory to fully supply the salads for the Strip.
Philips City Farming is developing integral lighting and growing environments for food production in the city. They have moved now to the campus and we are discussing the possibility of placing a shipping container that contains a growing factory to fully supply the salads for the Strip.
Garden Tech: DTW / DDW / Glow 2014
We wouldn’t be at the High Tech Campus if we were not interested in technology. So, how about working with suppliers of garden technology, i.e. drip irrigation systems, monitoring equipment etc, testing their stuff and providing them a showcase? Furthermore, we have a couple of regular yearly events in Eindhoven, where the garden could participate in. What is our contribution to Dutch Design Week, Dutch Technology Week or Glow 2014?
We wouldn’t be at the High Tech Campus if we were not interested in technology. So, how about working with suppliers of garden technology, i.e. drip irrigation systems, monitoring equipment etc, testing their stuff and providing them a showcase? Furthermore, we have a couple of regular yearly events in Eindhoven, where the garden could participate in. What is our contribution to Dutch Design Week, Dutch Technology Week or Glow 2014?