Vackstanäsgymnasiet is located at the lake of the Formula between Södertälje and Nykvarn. Here goes 200 students from across the country on trädgårdsmästar-, chef – textiles and physical education. Last year, the high school to Södertälje most sustainable activities, in order to live as eco-friendly as you learn.
two years Ago, they used the school’s land for growing vegetables and producing pork and mutton to the school restaurant. Today, close to 30 percent of food from own production.
– It may sound odd in a stockholm perspective, but the fact is that there are lots of schools that are located in smaller communities, or in the outskirts of cities, which would be able to take for our model, ” says Patrik Waldenström, the managing director of friskolans foundation.
Edith and Esther, who is the school’s most cherished mascots. Linderödssvinen supplies each year, upwards of 20 piglets which represent a large part of the students ‘ fläskintag. In fårhagen next bräker Värmlandsfåren which annually receive about 35 lamb served on the school’s lunch buffet.
– We always have a sign with Vackstalamm or Vackstagris so that the student himself can make the decision that today is jaws not I, for I feel it here the lamb and is not in the mood. They’ll have the chance to choose. Initially thought some it was a chore, but not anymore, says president Stefan Ruocco.
Sofie Stjernstrўm goes on trädgårdsutbildningen and helped to nappmata the lambs and petting the piglets when they were small.
” When I heard that they ate Vacksta-animals at school, my first thought was, I do not want to eat. But then when you get to be with the animals makes this is the best meat you can eat. Meat production we have in large parts of the world does not agree. We see the impact on the environment. The sweetest is that you no longer need to get the anxiety out of eating meat, says Sofie Stjernstrўm.
Suggorna Edith and Esther in front of the ceo, Henrik Waldenström, and gardener Simone Grind. Photo: Beatrice Lundborg
from the Jam, remnants from a local brewery and the school’s food scraps and sheep graze the hay. In addition to own animal purchasing school only wild game meat from local hunters slaughtered in small slaughterhouses in Sweden. Not even vegşetarians at the school seems to be opposed to the köttmenyn.
” I think it’s good from an ethical point of view. If I weren’t a vegetarian I would absolutely have been able to imagine eating the animals that are here. It feels better when I know where they come from and that they had it good, ” says Corona Segemark, 18 years.
the Animals are handled by school staff with the willing help of the six families in the Vackstanäs on weekends and holidays. As a thank you get the neighbors a half a pig for christmas. Livestock farming has increased the solidarity in the village and the ceo would like to see the animals become more.
” We’d love to have a few cows in order to keep the baits free from the parasittrycket and in the future, both chicken and egg production. It is almost impossible to get your hands on organic american chicken today, ” says Patrik Waldenström.
if the locally produced, but about all locally grown. Vegetable cultivation is small-scale intensive and requires only 450 square feet bäddyta. Last year the company produced 1.5 tonnes of vegetables in extremtorkan and hope this year to triple the harvest.
” We grow everything, but any vegetables that are both going to process and cook fresh. Beans are great as you can freeze, lactic acid or eat fresh. Grönkålen is also great, it can handle the cold and go to make soups, stews and chips, ” says Simone Gate, gardener.
To grow organically on the small surface to reduce weeds, and to use the composted halmgödsel and bestowed duvskit nutrition. Not to the earth to leak carbon try to turn it as little as possible. Instead, if you step out laboriously by växtbäddarna with a bredgrep to aerate the earth.
the Transport of vegetables from the farm to the table is done with the wheelbarrow.
– If you expect remove all the packaging, all inventory and all the transport in production, you get a huge saving in carbon dioxide emissions. We cultivate by hand because a vegetable that will grow in soil with very mikroliv contains much more nutrition. Food’s nutrient content has decreased tremendously in just fifty years, ” says Simone Grind.
Photo: Beatrice Lundborg
the vegetables on the matbuffén. Already in the day always served as a vegetarian main dish first on the buffet and mix in more veggies in the meat and fish dishes to reduce the meat consumption. A snittallrik costs about 22 dollars.
– We have received money from the EU and the Swedish board of Agriculture to analyze what it costs and if there is profitability in the model for other schools. Just in terms of kilopriset on the vegetables it pays not at the moment but the plantations have also an educational value in teaching, ” says Patrik Waldenström.
In the kitchen working chef in close collaboration with the gardener, and must start from what is available in the country and paddocks. In the fall he was unexpectedly 300 kilos of carrots in the knee.
” We had no sköljanläggning so we had to pressure wash the carrots and then take them into the kitchen. Okay, what do you do with 300 kilos of carrots, we got to riva, we got to make the marmalade, we got the acid. It takes time and you have to improvise a lot, ” says Robert Ekström, the chef.
the Order may seem backwards, but is far-sighted and necessary in the transition to a sustainable kitchen according to the school. Therefore, one has to spring recruited the gardener Emil Grönlund, who also is a chef and former chef at Oaxen slip in order to be responsible for the plantations.
– You must all the time be deleted from the what are the ingredients and it does require planning. We also try to have more vegetarian to reduce klimatavtrycket. Just by selecting the remove beef and buy more game from Sörmland, we have reduced the carbon footprint by 50 percent, says Robert Ekström.
Simone Gate, gardener, looking to machesalladen grown in the greenhouse. Photo: Beatrice Lundborg
his elinköp in two years by producing and selling electricity from solar cells on the idrottshallens ceilings and use wood chips from own forests. Through cooperation with associations and loans of sommargetter even held the woods around them alive.
Sustainability is still in its infancy but utvecklingsivern is great.
– It would be nice if we could have own wool also, there is a spinning mill in the vicinity. Fårskinnen from our Värmlandsfår and finullsfår we already care about and sell, ” says Patrik Waldenström.
fish Farming, he is also not averse – if not in the lake of the Formula.
– Should you have a fish farm, it shall not be sjöbaserad without land-based in a closed system. When you grow fish in a lake, you need to feed the fish and run the risk of both diseases and the eutrophication of the lake. But if someone else would be interested in growing fish with us so borrow we like the land and buying the fish, ” says Patrik Waldenström.
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