How can students support local and seasonal agriculture on a budget? 🍐🥦🥒💸
In this workshop Grønt Marked will teach you the benefits of farmers markets for communities and producers, and all the good it’s already done in Copenhagen. Lindegaarden will explain how farming around Copenhagen works, and give you practical skills to identify seasonal produce in your next grocery store trip.
If you want to learn how to support local and seasonal agriculture for an affordable-for-students price, this is definitely not one to miss.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: 19. April 2023, 13:15 - 14:45
Location: Station, Howitzvej 30
Room: Wunderkammer
Registration: https://greenweek23-agriculture.eventbrite.dk [Sign-up is required. The event is free & open to the public.]
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Viola Capriola is a co-founder of the Grønt Marked. She currently sits on the board and takes care of the farmers markets and association management. Originally from Italy, Viola has a bachelor's degree in gastronomic science from the University of Gastronomic Science in Pollenzo, and is currently enrolled on a Master in Food Policy at the City University of London. She’s been studying, working, advocating, cooking and growing Food for most of her life.
Grønt Marked is a small non-profit organisation started by a group of friends that organises farmers markets in Copenhagen. They invite local producers into the city most Sundays from May until December to sell fresh, local produce directly to consumers. The markets are about promoting local, seasonal produce and building communities that can challenge the existing agricultural system and the impact that has on our health and our climate. Learn more at:
Maria Thornval is a farmer at Lindegaarden.
Lindegaarden works with creating great diversity in their crops, while trying to create as much life as possible in the soil. They try to see if the robustness of their cultivation environment is thus increased so that the disease pressure becomes so low that natural enemies balance each other in rich food chains, especially underground, but of course also above. They have chosen not to include profitability in our harvest, as their main purpose is to find out how they can create a strong cultivation environment. In other words, they want to find out to what extent human food and high species diversity can interact and benefit from each other, instead of seeing them as opposites.
ABOUT GREEN WEEK
Green Week is one of the largest student-led events in Copenhagen. We seek to inspire and encourage individuals to shape a sustainable society through their actions and leadership. Therefore, Green Week is a forum for stakeholders across all of society to meet, discuss, and exchange about trends and developments within sustainability, enhance personal transformative capabilities, as well as providing networking and career exploration opportunities to students and young professionals.
EVENT LINKS & SIGN UP
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