From nearby field to plate – UniCafe and Green City Farm’s partnership continues with the harvest of 2025
From the beginning of August, UniCafe Biokeskus will be serving delicious fresh produce grown in local fields. Herbs and vegetables will be delivered directly to the restaurant from Perho College’s Green City Farm on the Malmi Campus.
Perho College’s Green City Farm is a unique learning environment that provides students and partners with know-how and well-being while focusing on sustainable development. UniCafe has been serving Green City Farm’s local produce since 2022 when the cooperation with Perho College began.
Green City Farm will deliver produce from the 2025 harvest to the UniCafe restaurant at Biocentre two days a week until the end of the harvest season. The farm’s range includes varieties of lettuce, herbs, kale, outdoor cucumber, courgette and beetroot.
“These vegetables grown in local fields are a model of sustainable food production, because they involve organic fertilisers instead of chemical ones, less irrigation water and fewer middlemen. Local organic farming benefits both biodiversity and the climate,” says Anne Immonen, Business Director of Ylva’s restaurants.
“Preserving biodiversity and ensuring that the earth’s carrying capacity is not exceeded is a matter close to our hearts. We want to preserve natural resources for future generations and encourage people’s enthusiasm for vegetarian food. We cultivate seedlings, vegetables and herbs for our partner restaurants in an ecological way. As well as our partner restaurants, other people can also reserve products from our online shop,” says Farming Specialist Heidi Hovi-Sippola from Green City Farm.
Green City Farm also offers events that are open to all, organised by its staff, students and partners. In the spring, you can buy seedlings at the Malmi campus, and in the autumn, the farm’s produce is sold at the Harvest Market.
In August and September, Green City Farm offers unforgettable tours of its fields for groups of adults and children, and every year on national Finnish Nature Day (the last Saturday of August) a pop-up event at Restaurant Pellolla. The theme of this year’s event is planetary health diet.
Read more about Green City Farm: https://greencityfarm.fi/en/
Explore a field at Green City Farm on YouTube: UniCafe Biokeskus and Green City Farm 2024
Additional information:
Anne Immonen
Business Director, Restaurants
+358 40 512 5008
anne.immonen@ylva.fi