by Debra | May 30, 2013 | edible plants / wild foods, Foodscape Schilderswijk, green infrastructure, the urban ag diet
In a moment of unprecedented interest, Chef Jaap of New Babylon’s Restaurant Piazza harvests ramps blossoms before they’ve even been planted in the roof garden! The Foodscape Schilderswijk team calls this sort of behaviour ‘healthy rooting’ and...
by Debra | May 7, 2013 | DemoGarden-Amsterdam Noord, Foodscape Schilderswijk, foodscapes, public space, URBANIAHOEVE projects
Adopt, Accept, Appreciate. OK! URBANIAHOEVE is proud to be a part of this book! Check out a preview here. Or buy it at Architectura et Natura Amsterdam. There’s a chapter about our project Foodscape Schilderswijk, and the Demonstration Garden in Amsterdam Noord...
by Debra | Oct 3, 2012 | bio-diversity, edible plants / wild foods, Foodscape Schilderswijk, foodscapes, green infrastructure, permaculture, public space, social cohesion, the urban ag diet, urban agriculture, URBANIAHOEVE projects
From monoculture to self-maintaining orchard in just eighteen months, this public space green strip and Foodscape Schilderswijk location is already enjoying the benefits of permaculture; self-seeding nectar plants and green manures, a flourishing fragrance path (to...
by Debra | Jul 1, 2012 | Foodscape Schilderswijk
At Urbaniahoeve’s DemoGarden in Amsterdam North we spend our wet summer days collecting snails and slugs, literally hundreds of them each day. Even if we wanted wanted to kill them on the spot, the carnage would be just too great to bear. Sam and Kat insist that...
