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 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 buurtnatuur030.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 gardening. Are you not satisfied by their offer? Come up with advice on how they can improve those courses. Do you want to know more? 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. 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 have not kept track of this 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 four-piece, but with three cards). We tested the game with students from Bonifatius College and distributed a number of copies to parents and teachers. You can download it here.

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. Are you interested or do you have an idea of your own? 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 more about this trial with subsidized organic groceries here. On February 8, 2024, we will ask the city council to help ensure that Utrecht residents with little money can also eat sustainably if they want to.

The challenge: organic food for all of Utrecht

In 2024, we want to talk to relevant organizations in Lunetten about what they can do themselves to regularly provide local residents who need it with sustainable or organic groceries. We also want to repeat the trial with subsidized vouchers in one or two other neighborhoods, in order to map out the wishes of the target group.

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? Please contact ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl