Questions have arisen about the sustainability of the industrialised food system. Alternatives like urban agriculture have emerged to reduce the negative social, environmental and health impacts of industrial agriculture. Such new food supply chains can change the way that people acquire and process food. This study looks at high-tech indoor gardening practices in nursing homes for elderly people, studying four nursing homes in the Dutch city of Velp. We used both qualitative and quantitative approaches to collect data, using site visits, a survey amongst employees, and semi-structured interviewees with residents and decision makers. Inspired by social practice theory, we aimed to understand the transformation of existing practices, investigating how the gardens affect cooking and eating practices, and how their constitutive elements of meaning, material and competences enable these transformations. Our work shows that the indoor gardens resulted in an integration of gardening and the resulting harvest into cooking practices, which in turn transformed residents’ eating practices. Appreciation of the taste of fresh vegetables and appearance of the meal decorated by fresh vegetables, as well as observing the growth of plants and their use, holds value for the elderly residents. Employees welcome the possibility to serve healthier meals. The integration of indoor gardens in existing cooking practices is more successful when employees have gardening and/or cooking competences, when they enjoy cooking and when they do not already cook with fresh ingredients. The gardens are more easily integrated when they are easily accessible. The materiality of the gardens does not require fully equipped kitchens.

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高科技都市农业对荷兰疗养院烹饪和饮食的影响

关于工业化食品系统的可持续性的问题已经出现。都市农业等替代品已经出现，以减少工业化农业对社会、环境和健康的负面影响。这种新的食品供应链可以改变人们获取和加工食品的方式。本研究着眼于老年人疗养院的高科技室内园艺实践，研究了荷兰城市 Velp 的四家疗养院。我们使用定性和定量方法来收集数据，使用现场访问、员工调查以及对居民和决策者的半结构化访谈。受社会实践理论的启发，我们旨在了解现有实践的转变，调查花园如何影响烹饪和饮食实践，以及它们的意义构成要素如何，物质和能力使这些转变成为可能。我们的工作表明，室内花园将园艺和由此产生的收获整合到烹饪实践中，从而改变了居民的饮食习惯。欣赏新鲜蔬菜的味道和新鲜蔬菜装饰的餐点外观，以及观察植物的生长及其用途，对老年居民具有价值。员工欢迎提供更健康膳食的可能性。当员工具有园艺和/或烹饪能力、喜欢烹饪以及尚未使用新鲜食材烹饪时，将室内花园融入现有烹饪实践中会更加成功。当花园易于进入时，它们更容易整合。