Organic farming is not for the posh in Brussels (10 images)
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Cafebabel ENG (NS)In Brussels agriculture and biological products lovers don't just stop at cultivating their own crops at home. They're setting up camp all over the Belgian capital to prove that everyone can be a part of the lifestyle. Between forest fruits, seed collections and green scarves, Argentinian photographer Diana Duarte presents her vision
This image gallery is part of cafebabel.com’s 2010-2011 feature focus on Green Europe; read the full set of city special editions
In the centre of Brussels, the Eco-innovation agricultural project sees five employees coordinating community gardens, where fruit and vegetables are cultivated using completely organic techniques. 8 December 2010 (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
The NGO is interested in long-term sustainable development. Flexibility is key: each person is free to personalise their own product. Members of the initiative also share a greenhouse (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
La Pépinière – Coulée Verte is a local recycling project focusing on organic waste. Sustainability is part of other values such as respect for cultural patrimony, quality food and even the creation of jobs. Sending organic parcels to the unemployed, for example, is another part of this professional integration (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
Saws, wholesalers, disinfectants...it's all part of the machine (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
The Fraternités Ouvrières group has 600 members and uses almost 400 fruit trees. Organic cultivation has been an activity for 38 years here and can be accessed by everyone; more solidarity is needed, say the spokespeople of the group (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
With a green scarf wrapped around her neck, Valerie Anne is as part of the Eco-innovation team. She cooperates with 'Fraternités Ouvrières' to develop organic techniques applied to Brussels' urban agricultural field (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
'Fraternités ouvrières' is a domestic production cooperative with 6, 500 differnt types of fruits and vegetables from all over the world (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
Fresh spinach seeds, stag horns or deer antler, edible chrysanthemum...you can eat until the flowers come home here (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
All of these boxes can be found in this seed bio-library in Mouscron, near the border (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
Cada una de estas iniciativas intenta contagiar sus conocimientos con ocasionales talleres educativos en Bruselas. 9 de Diciembre de 2010, Mouscron - Bruselas. (Image: © Diana Duarte/ dianaduarte.com)
Translated from Cuando la agricultura orgánica toma Bruselas (10 imágenes)