Field research

Walking around in this local supermarket, the amount of local products surprised us – salt potatoes and other vegetables, Texel cheese, biscuits and sweets and so on - while it is a franchise of Spar where you would only expect typical spar products. Nontheless, the local products were displayed and presented in an obvious way. Like the Texel Dit weekend already mentioned “Spar in den Hoorn

Interview 12 jan 2016,  EkoPlaza After the interview with Hannie van Blaaderen, we can make the following remarks: Locally produced is not the same as Biological or Sustainable. We have to be keen on that these are three different things! The dominant values for consumers to buy local products can be two-fold: o   It is assumed that quality of local products is higher than imported goods. o  …

During the visits to the Spar, Inn de Knip, Ekoplaza, De Steenenplaats and a bakery (see the other articles for a summary about these visits), we gained insights in the values to buy (local) food. The initial research question was: “What are the differences in vision and willingness to provide local food?” During group sessions on the socio-technical system and Texel in 2065, we decided to focus…

In the bakery most of the sweets are denoted as typical texels’ products. These are, since the bakery is placed in the city centre of Den Burg, special made for tourists – it has economically reasons. A short talk with the cashier noted that most of the products are sold to tourists, since those products are more expensive. Besides, as soon as some resources are from Texel it is showed by a…