More organic products in more daycare centers

The children in the care facilities in Seefeld should eat organically produced food as far as possible.

The Federal Nature Conservation Group is campaigning for this.

Seefeld

- organic food in day-care centers - not a matter of course, not even in the Seefeld community.

The national management of the Bund Naturschutz has set its local groups on this topic.

Since then, Helmut Ronstedt, member of the board of the Seefeld local group, has been on the move when it comes to organic food.

A first kick-off appointment with care facilities in Seefeld has already taken place, Mayor Klaus Kögel is open to the impulse, and in Angelika Lintzmeyer Ronstedt also found a professional who even lives in Seefeld by chance.

Lintzmeyer was the head of the “Biostadt München” project.

Together with the Tollwood Society for Cultural Events and Environmental Activities, she helped people to help themselves when care facilities wanted to switch to organic food.

The internet platform www.biospeiseplan.de emerged from this.

Ronstedt, Kögel and Lintzmeyer unanimously describe the meeting with the women who run day care centers in Seefeld as positive.

Lintzmeyer thinks it was "lively", "and informative".

There are a total of twelve institutions from different providers, from congregations to churches, the BRK and private organizations.

As for the food in the facilities, everything is on offer.

“The daycare centers have very different standards.

From not consciously to very consciously, ”says Ronstedt.

There is still a lot of partial knowledge circulating through society.

For example, regionally is often far from organic.

He does not want to accept the prejudice that organic food is too expensive.

Lintzmeyer affirms that good management can result in lower prices.

A changeover still requires effort.

“We have to bring head, hand and heart together for the wearer,” explains Lintzmeyer.

Advisors should be on hand to assist the day-care centers on site, an “organic menu manager” helps with recipes and calculations, and the kitchen staff may then take a tour of an organic farm.

Care facilities in Seefeld that are considering a change are invited to find out more via the website www.biospeiseplan.de

Mayor Kögel can imagine starting a pilot project in a community kindergarten.

He is already in contact with a Seefeld farmer who grows organic vegetables.

That is also an idea behind it: to create new markets for organic farmers.

In any case, Ronstedt and Lintzmeyer ran into open doors at the community.

Kögel: “Man is what he eats.” Actions should follow.