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Voedselteams is nation wide initiative. It's an online ‘food market’ where customers can buy produce direct from local farmers. When enough people from a suburb are interested in being involved, a group is formed with its own administrative and financial coordinators. The group connects to the national Voedselteams website which provides each member with a login and gives specific information relating to their locality, including a list of produce available from nearby farms for sale each week. Once you become a member you can select from a huge range of local produce including fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat, flour and juice. You order your food online and one week later you collect it from a local pick up point. In September 2012, a new Voedselteams group started up in Gentbrugge... | Voedselteams is nation wide initiative. It's an online ‘food market’ where customers can buy produce direct from local farmers. When enough people from a suburb are interested in being involved, a group is formed with its own administrative and financial coordinators. The group connects to the national Voedselteams website which provides each member with a login and gives specific information relating to their locality, including a list of produce available from nearby farms for sale each week. Once you become a member you can select from a huge range of local produce including fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat, flour and juice. You order your food online and one week later you collect it from a local pick up point. In September 2012, a new Voedselteams group started up in Gentbrugge... | ||
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This was their first information meeting and around 40 people showed up for an evening information session. Voedselteams facilitators explained how the system works online and then answered questions from the audience. One woman asked about whether the food was organic. The team leaders explained that the answer is yes... and no. The main focus for Voedselteams is to support local 'small business' | This was their first information meeting and around 40 people showed up for an evening information session. Voedselteams facilitators explained how the system works online and then answered questions from the audience. One woman asked about whether the food was organic. The team leaders explained that the answer is yes... and no. The main focus for Voedselteams is to support local 'small business' | ||
- | A group of farmers came to Gent that evening to share their stories and show their produce. There was a bee keeper who makes delicious honey and a vegetable farmer whose wife writes a letter to their Voedselteams customers each week. There was a farmer who runs a flour-mill, another who grows apples and pears, a dairy farmer, a goat farmer and a sheep farmer who produces dairy products. His name was Johan and his farm is in Teme. Voedselteams is his main source of business (he also runs a small shop at the farm). Johan has a wonderful system where the government | + | A group of farmers came to Gent that evening to share their stories and show their produce. There was a bee keeper who makes delicious honey and a vegetable farmer whose wife writes a letter to their Voedselteams customers each week. There was a farmer who runs a flour-mill, another who grows apples and pears, a dairy farmer, a goat farmer and a sheep farmer who produces dairy products. His name was Johan and his farm is in Teme. Voedselteams is his main source of business (he also runs a small shop at the farm). Johan has a wonderful system where the government |
I also spoke to a couple of the audience members interested in joining the group. Lien from Gentbrugge said that Voedselteams is a good urban solution for reaching local food because finding it in the shops isn’t always possible. Ben likes the idea of shopping online and knowing where the food is coming from. He loved hearing the farmers’ stories and likes the diversity on offer. It seems Voedselteams is a great system for people who can’t grow their own food but who want to connect with and support local farmers and have great local produce in their kitchens. | I also spoke to a couple of the audience members interested in joining the group. Lien from Gentbrugge said that Voedselteams is a good urban solution for reaching local food because finding it in the shops isn’t always possible. Ben likes the idea of shopping online and knowing where the food is coming from. He loved hearing the farmers’ stories and likes the diversity on offer. It seems Voedselteams is a great system for people who can’t grow their own food but who want to connect with and support local farmers and have great local produce in their kitchens. |