{"id":3763,"date":"2013-10-21T17:38:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2013-10-25T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T10:58:36","slug":"eemstad-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"EEMSTAD Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August, 2013<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contributor:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>City Farmer Wytze Nauta, Amersfoort<\/p>\n<p><strong>Farming the city development areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/10\/amersfoort5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3765\" title=\"amersfoort5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/10\/amersfoort5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/10\/amersfoort5.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/10\/amersfoort5-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/10\/amersfoort41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3766\" title=\"amersfoort4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/10\/amersfoort41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/10\/amersfoort41.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/10\/amersfoort41-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a new suburb of Amersfoort, Vathorst, several hectares of land are pending for urban development. However, due to the financial crisis, these areas are not used yet, and this will at least take another 10 years. About 8 ha is now used for farming, growing \u00bd ha potatoes, \u00bc ha pumpkins, 1 ha lupines\u2019 and 2,5 ha cereal and 4 ha hay land. Products find their way to the consumers in the city through direct sales and sales to local (farm)stores and a food community.\u00a0 Also groups of people are invited to help harvesting and harvesting of their own produce, which they have to pay for. School classes are invited to help harvesting to. The children have to bring \u20ac5 and get some potatoes and pumpkin in return to take home.<\/p>\n<p>Only products that can be stored for a period of time are grown because there is no time for daily harvesting and selling of products. It should be a part time job?\u00a0 Hay and straw is sold to local farmers which in return bring manure to the land. Cereal is used for chicken feed.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to use this land for serious business and in the mean time take care of this land, save money for the city, reduce the food miles, create work for disabled people, and educate citizens about durable\/organic food production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August, 2013 Contributor:\u00a0City Farmer Wytze Nauta, Amersfoort Farming the city development areas &nbsp; In a new suburb of Amersfoort, Vathorst, several hectares of land are pending for urban development. However, due to the financial crisis, these areas are not used yet, and this will at least take another 10 years. About 8 ha is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amersfoort","category-oslo-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}