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Waste becomes soil. Soil becomes food. Food becomes community.
This is what happened when Boerderij De Meent came to one of our composting workshops and wrote about it.
Farmers from Uganda, Nigeria, the Netherlands. Different knowledge, same goal: close the loop.
Read the full story on our Cityplot Substack or Website.

Wat Niet Mag Wijken documents 12 temporary places in Noord that together generate 385,000+ visits a year, 1500+ volunteers, and an irreplaceable social fabric. All of it built bottom-up. All of it under pressure.

You can feel it when you're on a bike, moving slow enough to actually notice.

You can also join one of Cityplot's tailor made bike tours — fun group outings, impact days and team building activities — cityplot.org/tours-amsterdam

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Tomato rainbow 🌈

Tomatoes come in different sizes, flavors, shapes and... COLOURS. So growing the different colours in a specific kind of order you can grow your own rainbow!

Analia, a friend and colleague to many Cityplotters has been growing this so-called 'tomato rainbow' at the Healing garden in Noord. This year, to bring the Bloei&Groei gardens and others around the city closer together, she has been sharing around these seedlings to all grow rainbows together.

Are you as excited as we are? We keep you posted on the results 🍅

Planting Palestine. A garden planted from love. And from solidarity.

Palestinian food culture is one of the richest in the world — deeply tied to land, season and memory. Thirteen thousand years of agriculture. A land that gave the world its first cultivated chickpea. A culture of foraging from shared communal land, masha'a, open to everyone — a tradition now largely forbidden by the occupation.

So we planted. A Palestinian heritage garden at the heart of the Silent Garden at Food Design Playground in Dordrecht. Za'atar, nigella, lathyrus, saffron, sumac, a fig tree that was already waiting.

This garden grew from a collaboration between , permaculture designer, food designer of , food writer , and the knowledge and generosity of and of the — whose way of seeing the land as relationship rather than resource shaped everything.

The full story on Palestinian garden traditions, ba'al farming, wildforaging, and the little paradise garden el-jneini is now on the Cityplot blog. www.cityplot.org

On Saturday 13 June, this garden becomes the backdrop for a Palestinian lunch experience hosted by the Hummus Academy. Inspired by Een Palestijns Diner — cooking, clay, story and scent. Keeping a culture alive.

13 June, 13.00–17.00 Tickets via fooddesignplayground.nl

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