Use the public realm to support food culture

Promote food entrepreneurship and production in Ajuda

➔ Create a program to maintain under-utilized outdoor spaces that provide community members with gardening & upkeep supplies

➔ Host pop-up food education events in opportunity spaces

➔ Create comfortable public places for people to eat meals together

➔ Provide simple infrastructure to accommodate a neighborhood farmers market

➔ Encourage food businesses to spill onto the street

➔ Launch a healthy diets public awareness campaign along food routes in Ajuda

➔ Create partnerships between universities and companies in Lisbon to provide services that assist people in opening food businesses

➔ Provide small grants and ﬂexible leases for Ajuda residents to open healthy and accessible food businesses

➔ Rent commercial kitchens at a subsidised cost for entrepreneurs to develop healthy products

➔ Encourage vendors to transform small-scale retail spaces into healthy food hubs

➔ Use vacant storefronts and buildings for food production

➔ Partner with the agronomy institute to provide food growing classes to community members