ABOUT KITTY

 

As my father always says, I really enjoy all gifts of mother earth. I love experiences that have to do with all my senses.

 

Cooking, gardening, massaging, photographing and traveling are my favorite activities.

 

During my many travels I have become acquainted with various herbs, fruits and crazy veggies that I could not imagine before.

 

I started experimenting with this abundance of new greens, and found a lot of these veggies and fruits on the market in Holland. It was a very colorful culinary journey.

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In my training as a Shiatsu therapist, in 2006 I came in contact with herbs and edible plants again. Chinese medicinal plants mainly but lot's of spices that we can find in our own country as well.  That sparked my interest in medicinal, but also in wild edible plants again.

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A few years later at Rainbow Gatherings (no, I'm not a hippie :)) I had an intensive training with Jean-François Henry followed a Swiss herbalist and scientist from Switzerland. That moment I knew I wanted to pass this knowledge on and do culinary edible plant walks 

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I followed another Herborist course in Belgium at Dodonaeus and keep on making new recipes from the wild, often inspired with dishes from other cultures.

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You never stop learning! 

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Wanna taste? Walk with me!

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(on the picture I won the first award for local  hero initiatives)

 

 

LOCAL FOOD

 

More and more people are choosing to eat organic and / or to use local products.  Annoying that still not everyone can afford this! We are trying to change that in The Hague.

 

Waste less

Local products often require fewer packaging when you look at vegetables in the supermarket, for example. Less packaging = less waste.

 

Tastes better

The food often just tastes better. For example, fruit and vegetables have a much fuller taste.

Support the farmers and local initiatives!

 

When you buy local products, you support the farmers. On farmers' markets the farmers get a large part of the profit themselves. If there is a supermarket in between, then the yield for them is scarce. Local initiators have to fight hard to keep their heads above water and to develop further in the city.

 

Cost less

Although organic products are often more expensive, local products are often cheaper. Especially when you look at fruit that comes fresh from the land!

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In The Hague it is easy to do. I have my own garden, I forage and am a part of! an initiative called Lekker Nassuh.

 

In addition to eating from my own garden, I order my vegetables exclusively through www.lekkernassuh.org a project that originated from 1 of the working groups of DHiT - The Hague in Transition. Lekkernassûh is a transition project that aims to make local products accessible to a wide audience ... available, affordable and accessible.

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So take your own daim bag or pots to

 www.lekkernassuh.org for a package full of local goodness!

FORAGING​

 

Since I was a child my family took me for foraging. We picked blackberries in the forest and often collected hazelnuts and elderberries. I thought going out to pick blackberries was a combination of picking and playing at the same time. We often played hide and seek in between and whoever filled the bucket first won the first jam sandwich  I loved it! That jam my mother made, mmmmmmmjammie !!

 

​When I think of the happiest moments in my life, I often end up in bubbles of nature. Moments in which I found  my own treasures of green and then present them in a beautiful way on our plate.

 

In my Culinary wild edible walks you learn how to recognize edibles in your own environment . We will go on a little journey that brings you closer to nature, saves money and turns every walk into an adventure.

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If you want to know more about Wildpluk, you can follow a workshop with me.

 

Look in the agenda when and where the following workshops will be given

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I am currently creating a game for you to remember, recognize and make recipes.

 

So in the future it is even easier to remember and more fun to create something healthy together.