food

Urban Dinner

Dodo arranges Urban Dinner events every other Tuesday in Helsinki. The goal of Urban Dinners is to spend time together doing tasks that benefit the community, cooking and enjoying a nice meal made from ingredients that are under the threat of going to waste. We also utilize the harvest from the Turntable garden during the harvest season and work in the urban garden. Each Urban Dinner has its own theme and after dinner we hold workshops and discussions. See next theme on Pixl. Find sign up link in Dodo’s Linktree.

Urban Gardening

Dodo has its own urban gardening places at Turntable in Pasila, Helsinki and at Rapumaja in Oulu. Dodo also rents an area for gardening boxes in Jätkäsaari. We also organize urban gardening courses. Dodo has strongly influenced the landing of the urban farming trend in Finland, and now we are working on spreading the inspiration to increasingly ecological and accessible urban gardening. Read more about this on: kaupunkiviljely.fi

Turntable

Turntable (Kääntöpöytä) is Dodo’s urban garden and laboratory in Helsinki, Pasila. There is also a greenhouse and event space and an open urban space in the historical railway milieu. See also kaantopoyta.fi. Turntable is run mainly through volunteer efforts. You can participate, for example, through communal gardening sessions. Welcome!

Kirmo Kivelä | firstname.surname@dodo.org

Workshops and events

Dodo organises different kinds of events and courses. More information from the infoletter, Pixel and Facebook events. What would an event of your dreams be like?

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Use it all

What are the best waste food recipes? How can waste be reduced in connection to food production? What kind of cooperation patterns effectively reduce waste? We highlight information related to waste food and resource efficiency

A project that looked at foodwaste from many angles with Urban Dinner events in Helsinki, Turku, Tampere and Oulu. In the fall of 2021 and 2022 there was event tours for visiting the most interesting food-related actors in each city. The food waste tour was streamed (recordings). Project co-ordinator: Minna Sumelius. The project was supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

Berry Guerilla

Berry Guerilla is a guerrilla cultivation group and network that focuses on growing berries and other crops on a co-harvesting basis in an urban space. The largest project is currently located in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki. The group has its own channels: Instagram and Facebook.

Urban Food exhibition

The Urban Food exhibition organized by the Helsinki City Museum and Dodo in June-September 2020 was the main event of Dodo’s 25th anniversary year, and there was a separate section for the presentation of Dodo’s activities. The exhibition was a dialogue in which experts from various fields and e.g. Dodo activists answered questions about the future of the food. Kasvattamo – an innovative urban culture and center of activities – opened in the museum’s courtyard.

Haarukanjälki – Forkprint

The Forkprint project dug into the global food system. We searched for sustainable solutions for how to produce, consume and distribute food in the future. During summer 2014, we organised a series of conversations and workshops responding to myths around food: Is there enough for the growing population? Can people afford it? How do poop and pee or insects relate to future global food security? See haarukanjalki.org