On 05/07/24, I Visited & toured the amazing Food Farm in Eindhoven & watched as to how green vegetables, herbs & mushrooms are grown in the Care & Community farms ecologically through innovation & technology for healthier living.Best part of it is that the items are delievered to the consumers directly.Especially I watched the production of ‘Broth’-the Elixir of life which is a vegetable soup with very rich protein ingredients providing great source of energy to the consumer at the same time it has curative properties in cases of certain ailments!In olden days it used to be termed as Grandmaa’s sure-shot prescription in a variety of illnesses especially for young children & mothers.Here I am describing my visit in the words of the ‘Phood Farm”

Sustainable ecological farming,healthy eating

Phood Farm is an Aquaponic Care Farm and Community Farm in the southeast of Eindhoven. Here we grow vegetables, herbs, microgreens and mushrooms in a sustainable, ecological way, both indoors and outdoors. In the middle of the city! Our mission is to keep the city healthy, which starts with what you sow, how you grow it and what you eat. We grow our products and deliver them hyper-locally, directly to the end consumer and companies that want to buy healthy, local and ecological vegetables directly from the ‘farmer’

We are “greening” the city with a pink edge.

Phood Farm is the urban farm that inspires the city to produce and consume regeneratively, caringly and community based. Our innovative aquaponic care farm has now grown into a hyperlocal farming community. Together with the neighborhood and our care participants we grow vegetables, in the middle of the city in a hypermodern way. The place where fresh, pure, unprocessed food is the new standard. Where you come to recover your health through healthy eating .

Welcome to the Phood Family :

What is “Phood Farm”? What do we find important & what do we stand for? A green future, where the healthy growth of plants & people is central. We would like to take you into our world of pure, fresh ,healthy , unprocessed & ecologically -grown vegetables.

We produce unprocessed food locally, through innovation,technology & an ecological system.

Our plants grow in different ways for different purposes. For example, within an Aquaponic Care Farm we have one of the most innovative and sustainable ways to grow vegetables in places where this was previously not possible, such as in (monumental) buildings, on roofs or in deserts. In short, Aquaponic Farming is growing on water, where the food comes from fish manure and is converted into usable plant food. The fish in turn get clean water from the plants, which completes the circle in a self-regulating system. A very sustainable way of growing food that uses 90% less water.

Sustainability is of the utmost importance to us, which is why we opt for hyper-local production in the middle of the city that delivers directly to the end consumer, without any form of transport.

Phood care.

In addition to health and sustainability, caring for each other & each other’s well-being is an important point of attention within Phood Farm. We are a social enterprise & offer people with a distance to the labor market opportunities for development & growth.

Learning by working in the farm:

At Phood Farm we are all students of life, with an open attitude to new possibilities and developments. Are you motivated to build a green and social world together? Then take a look at our internship vacancies and growth places.

Phood kitchen:Local food nurtured by new technology.100%good for you

In a monumental building in the middle of the city, the world of restorative food and urban farming comes to life. Hyper-local, rich in vegetables, herbs and color, based on stock and with an alkaline balance. Our products are grown with care, both through aquaponic farming and regenerative methods in the open ground. Get to know the new Phood Standard and discover how we are redefining nutrition and wellness.

BROTH : THE ELIXIR OF LIFE

What do you eat when you don’t feel fit? Grandma’s chicken soup or vegetable broth. And we love your health! That’s why we brew an elixir that has been around since the beginning of time – BROTH – or (bone) broth. It repairs your inner intestinal wall, supports your collagen production, detoxifies your liver and is a small protein bomb in one. You will find our broth every week in the Phood Farm Vegetable Box.

Broth is used for pregnancy support, flu symptoms, leaky gut, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammation reduction, skin rejuvenation, muscle health, joint strength.

I’m grateful to ‘Phood Farm’ website for invaluable information on the subject.

Happy Reading ,friends 😁