Community Kitchen, Cafe, and Garden
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Description:
A place where community members can produce and eat food for free.Features
○ Guaranteed a meal with ingredients within a 20 mile radius
○ Joins up local food producers with users, but also experts of various sorts – seeds, heritage, autochthonous sorts, permaculture, circular design, etc. Build local agricultural-food links and knowledge
○ Placemaking: every month, some sections of the restaurant are redesigned, it’s a living, breathing place with inspirations coming from all over; when you enter this place, you really feel part of a vibrant community in charge of its own future (and food!)
○ Also has a meals-on-wheels system (open source cargobike builds and coordination platforms)
○ It is a hub for the collaborative mapping of community gardens, roof-top gardens, community composts, urban pollinators, etc., and connecting them (and the people involved)
○ Doubles as a site for performances by local artists (live music, theatre, etc.
Examples in Belfast
○ Grow
○ The Dock
Global Examples
○ Brixton Pound Cafe (UK)
○ Le A’terlier Paysans (Link)
○ FarmBot (Link)
○ Farm Hack (Global)
○ Cargonomia (Budapest, Hungary)
○ Maison d’Éducation à l’Alimentation Durable (MEAD – the Education and Sustainable Food Centre)
○ Self-managing farm ‘Agros’ in Elliniko (Athens, Greece)
○ Social kitchen ‘The other human’ (Athens, Greece)
○ The Urban Farm (Tokyo, Japan)
○ Center for Ecoliteracy (Berkeley, California)
○ Santropol Roulant community food hub (Montreal, Canada)
○ East Bay Food Not Bombs (Oakland, California)
○ No-Middlemen Cooperative (Athens, Greece)
○ ColyFlor Solidarity Economic Circuit (Medellin, Colombia)
