Agri-food sector winner at Limburg Sustainability Award

The Limburg Sustainability Award was presented in the theater of Venray on Monday evening. Of the 23 nominated companies and organizations, People's Farm walked away with the prize. With Kipster in second and Zwamburg in third place, it was a fantastic result for the Limburg agri-food sector.

People's Farm

In the vegetable garden of Marcel and Yvonne Jacobs in Maasbree People's Farm grows over sixty different kinds of organic vegetables. They work with small light equipment and the beds in which the vegetables grow, remain untracked. This has a positive effect on the soil life and thus the health of the soil. The same applies to the alternating crops that take place in the vegetable garden and which prevent soil exhaustion. This is done in an organic sustainable way.

The seasonal vegetables produced can be collected by the consumer directly from the farm in a so-called "fresh crate". This allows consumers to experience the production of food up close again.

Kipster

Kipster came in second in the competition for the Limburg Sustainability Award. This company is concerned with the question of how to feed the world in a fair way, without excluding people, depleting nature and tormenting animals unnecessarily.

The Kipster eggs are the first, and as yet the only, climate-neutral eggs with the maximum number of 3 stars in the Beter Leven Keurmerk (Better Life Certificate) of the Dutch Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Planet Proof Stamp of the Stichting Milieukeur (Environmentally Sound Quality Foundation). Kipster also recently launched an animal-friendly smoked sausage.

Swamburg

Zwamburg grows sustainable, edible mushrooms on the residual streams of Limburg. In its new sustainable nursery, Zwamburg uses coffee grounds to grow oyster mushrooms. Coffee grounds are collected from various local companies to keep the CO2 footprint as low as possible. After growing, the extracted coffee grounds are taken to a composter so that they are returned to nature.

Agrarian Limburg the top in sustainability

In total, 23 companies and organizations competed for the Limburg Sustainability Award. Special guest at the ceremony was the well-known 11-year-old British environmental activist Lilly Platt. She called on young people to also take their responsibility.

People's Farm expressed their delight at the result on social media: "We are proud to call ourselves the winner of the first Sustainability Award Limburg 2019! Our congratulations also go to the second and third place Kipster and Zwamburg! Nice that agricultural Limburg is the top in sustainability!"

Source: Limburg Sustainability Award, WijLimburg