Our city
Amsterdam is a city exploring new ways to live in balance with people and the planet. From urban gardens and renewable energy projects to community-led recycling and water management, regenerative practices aim to restore ecosystems, strengthen communities, and reduce waste. By embracing these initiatives, Amsterdam is shaping a more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive future for everyone.
De Sering
Everyday
Rhôneweg 6, 1043 AH Amsterdam
A community kitchen and social space where affordable plant-based meals, cultural programming, and solidarity building are core. It’s less about farming per se but deeply intertwined with food justice, community building, and social regeneration
Treehouse at NDSM
Treehouse NDSM is a creative community and studio complex at the NDSM shipyard in Amsterdam-North. It contributes to sustainability in a cultural and social sense by offering affordable studios, collaborative spaces and events where artists and creatives co-produce work, share ideas, engage the public, and build community. It’s an example of social regeneration and creative reuse that brings people together around culture, knowledge exchange, and urban experimentation
De Ceuvel
Korte Papaverweg 4
1032 KB Amsterdam
De Ceuvel is a regenerative urban reuse project in Amsterdam-North, built on a former polluted shipyard. It’s a living sustainability lab where old houseboats have been repurposed into innovative workspaces, studios, and a café. The site uses plants to clean the soil and exemplifies circular design, reuse of materials, and experimental ecological practices.
Van Amsterdamse Bodem
Van Amsterdamse Bodem is a city-wide food and sustainability platform connecting people with local food producers, growers, cities’ food heroes, and sustainable food projects. It highlights urban farms, workshops, markets, and community food initiatives across Amsterdam, from bread makers and kombucha producers to community gardens and biodiverse orchards.
Restaurant De Kas
Kamerlingh Onneslaan 3
1097 DE Amsterdam
Restaurant De Kas is an iconic farm-to-table restaurant located inside a restored greenhouse in Amsterdam’s Frankendael Park. Its concept is deeply rooted in seasonality, local sourcing, and slow food principles, with the menu literally shaped by what is growing in its own gardens.
Other regenerative initiatives
Amsterdam is moving towards a greener and healthier climate, find more local initiatives nearby!
NoordOogst
Organic self-harvest food garden with workshops & events.
Zoöp Amstelpark
A regenerative project that manages the park as a multispecies ecosystem, giving nature a voice in decision-making to support biodiversity and life beyond humans.
Fruittuin van West
Large organic farm with mixed cropping, free-range animals and biodiversity.