HarvestCare

Gefeliciteerd Harvest Care, Oogst en Mensa Mensa! Deze 3 gezonde-voedselinitiatieven ontvingen tijdens het festival Gezond Verstand de Waarde-Ring 2024 uit handen van gedeputeerde Mariëtte van Leeuwen in de De Week van Ons Eten. De Waarde-Ring is een prijs voor initiatieven die de band tussen boer en inwoner versterken en het verhaal van ons voedsel vertellen. 👉 Harvest Care kreeg de prijs voor de manier waarop zij gezond voedsel inzetten als medicijn en hiermee een brug slaan tussen boeren, artsen, wetenschappers en inwoners met gezondheidsproblemen. 👉 Oogst ontving de Waarde-Ring 2024 voor hun inzet voor een gezond voedselsysteem en de ontwikkeling van een nieuw winkelconcept. 👉 Volkskantine Mensa Mensa ontving de Waarde-Ring voor het vergroten van de voedselvaardigheden van lokale bewoners en hun inzet om te komen tot een landelijke basisvoorziening voor goed en betaalbaar eten. Lees meer over de winnaars van de Waarde-Ring! 👉 https://lnkd.in/ehaPkik5 Samen bouwen we aan een gezond en #KrachtigZuidHolland. 📷 : Mensa Mensa Zuzanna Zielińska Nine Perdeck Joost van Schie Fennie Lansbergen Floris Visser Esther Matze Stichting Je Leefstijl Als Medicijn Voeding Leeft Ons Eten Den Haag Greenport West-Holland De Tuin van Holland GroentenFruit Huis Coalitie Leefstijl in de Zorg Rotterdam de boer op! Voedselfamilies Zuid-Holland Healthy Society Hub Priscilla Speijer - Godschalk Irene Voskamp - ter Borg Carolien van Velzen Chantal Richter Liane Lankreijer 🌱Miriam Offermans Diana Filipov Karin de Jager Luuk van Santen Alma Balesic

Very exciting - HarvestCare has a first hire! And it's an amazing one ❤️ Nine is joining as the program coordinator. She will work on procuring food from local farmers, co-designing the Food Pharmacy program, and ensuring that our patients and partners have an amazing experience. I couldn't ask for a better person for this role. Nine worked for 5 years with a Rotterdam-based supply chain, knowing all of the farmers from whom we source food. She is super passionate about soil and ecosystems. She is a great designer and communicator and, most importantly, a super kind and humble human being. It was so worth looking for her! 🙏 Huge thank you to our funders for helping us work on the connection between farming and healthcare! Stichting Goeie Grutten, Stichting De Verre Bergen, The A Team Foundation, Rotterdam de boer op!, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, Triodos Foundation.

New episode 🌿 I met with Zuzanna Zielińska in Rotterdam 🇳🇱 to discuss her amazing Food Pharmacy project: HarvestCare. Connecting the dots between soil health, nutrient density, and human health could be a total game changer in my opinion and I am a big supporter of Zuzanna’s vision 😍 Her mission? Making nutrient-dense foods accessible to all, especially those who can't afford them 🥕 Recent research highlights that regenerative practices increase the nutrient density of foods. HarvestCare is taking this research further by working with 10 local farmers and providing fresh food boxes to participants from socio-economically challenged backgrounds. They will be measuring: 1️⃣ soil health & nutrient density (with Leiden University) 2️⃣ the health of participants (with Erasmus MC) The aim? Prove that better farming equals better health, and make healthy nutrient dense foods more accessible to everyone. 🍽️💪 This is the first QuickSeed episode, a shorter and more casual conversation format I’m trying out for the first time. Let me know if you think I should keep making more of these! (link in the comments below) ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ This podcast was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Please help me grow the Deep Seed podcast by 1. clicking the ‘follow’ button (Spotify / Apple Podcast) 2. leaving a 5⭐️ review Thank you 🙏 Raphael Esterhazy / Bionutrient Food Association / RHEA - Regenerative Healthcare European Association / Fresh Ventures Studio

📣 We are going to run a Food Pharmacy in Rotterdam to prototype future-proof healthcare models! 📣 ✨ I am so excited that months of research, preparations, fundraising, and building partnerships led to this amazing moment that I can share with you that my dreams will become a reality! 💥 For 3 months we will provide diabetes type 2 patients with low-income status in Rotterdam South weekly seasonal, local food boxes, supported by coaching sessions from a dietician. 🥅 Our goal is to operationalize the food prescription model which has a huge potential to improve patinets health, reduce healthcare costs, and support the so-needed food system transition. ⚕ With Erasmus MC we will measure the healthcare outcomes of the intervention. 🥕 With Leiden University we will test how farming practices affect the nutrient density of the produce. 💰 Our long-term goal is to create a Social Impact Bond, to create a business model for food prescription models. My 3 invitations to you: 🙏 If you work with funds that support catalytic initiatives - let's connect! 🥙 If you would like to learn more about our model, share your inputs, and have dinner together join us for the open event on 24.04.24 in Rotterdam https://lnkd.in/ezPiZp8E 🕸 If you know other change makers working in the farming/healthcare space - let's connect! 💚 A huge gratitude to our partners: Public Food, Fresh Ventures Studio, Rechtstreex | van de boer, Caring Doctors, Erasmus MC, Leiden University, FreshRx Oklahoma, RHEA - Regenerative Healthcare European Association 💛 And funders: Rotterdam de boer op!, Stichting Goeie Grutten, Stichting Triodos Foundation, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, Stichting De Verre Bergen, A Team Foundation #regenerativehealthcare #regenerativeagriculture #nutrition #foodismedicine