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"Cooking for future" with the food bike: eating on wheels in a completely different way

2021-10-20T10:47:03.719Z


Our eating habits harm the climate: a woman from Gröbenzeller is convinced of that. She started the “Cooking for Future” project with a colleague. The kick-off took place in an old industrial hall - and not without reason.


Our eating habits damage the climate: a woman from Gröbenzeller is convinced of that.

She started the “Cooking for Future” project with a colleague.

The kick-off took place in an old industrial hall - and not without reason.

Gröbenzell

- "My generation screwed up a lot," said cook and nutritionist Agnes Streber at the event in the so-called concrete plant on the Weidegrund. But the 59-year-old has become active. She initiated two plant gardens in her home community that anyone can use. With her colleague Nina Helleberg (29) she started “Cooking for Future”. The project wants to show how a sustainable, climate-friendly diet can be achieved. "With our food we decide how many greenhouse gases are released from agriculture."

Using the example of her grandmother, Streber made it clear how much her eating behavior has changed.

She used vegetables and fruits from her own garden.

Meat was only available on Sundays.

Much has changed since then: instead of the nine farms at the time, there are now only two in the village.

Today there are corn deserts on the former cow pastures.

At the start of the project, Wilfried Bommert from the Institute for World Food came from Berlin.

He warned: "Our daily bread is no longer safe if we do not change structures decisively." The full shelves in the supermarkets pretended reliability.

But Corona has shown how disasters can have an impact.

Suddenly there was a lack of harvest workers and truck drivers.

He warned that in an emergency, the supplies would last for three days.

Because only ten percent of the food currently came from the region.

Harvests around the world have been endangered by storms, floods or drought.

Food turnaround

By the end of next year, Streber and Helleberg want to bring the Gröbenzell people closer to the nutritional turnaround.

With their food bike, a bicycle that can be used to cook, they want to go to the market, to schools, to companies or to sports fields.

Streber can also imagine a presentation in front of the local council.

After all, Mayor Martin Schäfer is the project's patron.

The place for the start was chosen deliberately.

As in the case of the food turnaround, old structures are also supposed to dissolve in the old walls of the hall in the industrial park, in which precast concrete parts were manufactured years ago, in order to create new ones.

The hall from the 1970s is to be transformed into a cultural site.

Mayor Schäfer had acquired the hall with a partner.

Car tires are stored in his partner's hall.

Various cultural offers are planned in Schäfer's part: for example a free stage for theaters and choirs, a bicycle workshop, an unpackaged shop, a café, a restaurant, a yoga studio, a practice for physiotherapy and a manager's apartment.

A managing director will run the cultural site.

But the hall is still a major construction site.

The building committee gave the green light for the change of use at the beginning of the year, and the district office has meanwhile also given its basic okay, reports Schäfer, but he has not yet received a building permit.

There is already a "circulation shed" on the site, a place where everyday objects can be exchanged.

That too in terms of sustainability.

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Source: merkur

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