Rijnvliet wins LI Awards 2023

We are happy to announce that Rijnvliet Edible Neighborhood has won the LI Awards in the category Dame Sylvia Crowe International Award.The Dame Sylvia Crowe is an international award category that honors landscape achievements around the world. This category aims to acknowledge significant achievements through the efforts of individuals, research, projects, plans or schemes that have provided benefits to communities, environments, and nature through their unique work.Rijnvliet Edible Neighborhood is a unique, co-created, new residential area in Utrecht, part of the Leidsche Rijn expansion that provides 1000 new ground-based dwellings. Initiated by local residents, the public space in the area is designed as an edible, educative landscape. The layout, based on the principles of food forestry, was developed in a participatory co-design procedure with residents, experts and the municipality of Utrecht. This has resulted in a public space design where all the greenery is edible for humans or animals.The plan for the layout of Rijnvliet, Edible Neighborhood was elaborated by Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners, Æ Food Forestry Development and De Zwarte Hond. Commissioned by the Municipality of Utrecht.