{"id":18010,"date":"2024-09-13T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charleroi-metropole.be\/decouvrir\/agricoeur-votre-tiers-lieu-nourricier\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T08:33:14","slug":"agricoeur-votre-tiers-lieu-nourricier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charleroi-metropole.be\/en\/decouvrir\/agricoeur-votre-tiers-lieu-nourricier\/","title":{"rendered":"Agric\u0153ur, your one-stop shop for all things food and more\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The mission of the Agric\u0153ur cooperative is to promote local and sustainable food, to give producers the means to grow such produce, to give everyone access to this kind of food and to bolster the links between food producers and citizens in the Charleroi Metropolitan Area. We visited this friendly one-stop shop for tasty, locally sourced food and delicacies.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When they started the cooperative in 2022, Agric\u0153ur\u2019s founders came up with the term \u2018tiers-lieu nourricier\u2019 (literally a \u2018third party site that nourishes\u2019, i.e. a one-stop shop for all things relating to food) which they defined rather beautifully: the idea being to provide a third party place that acts as a facilitator connecting home and work and all activities that revolve around food, from production to consumption, as well as sharing knowledge and learning. This feature is also the very thing that makes the project original and serves as the project\u2019s strength, as it covers the entire chain from farm to fork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical training and real-life testing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In actual fact, the adventure begins ahead of the production of healthy, local food by providing training courses and workshops in connection with local trades, entrepreneurship and food for those who wish to set up in business and develop an economic activity in this sector. This includes: management in line with the Federal Agency for Food Chain Safety standards, food processing techniques, market gardening methods, analysing the financial feasibility of the project, exploring communication tools, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Job seekers and\/or budding entrepreneurs also benefit from valuable advice and an agricultural testing ground where they can try their hand at their (future) farming or market gardening activity for one to three seasons, with personalised support. An ideal way to get to grips with the realities of the field… both literally and metaphorically speaking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forging links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Once trained and launched, the producers are not left to their own devices either. If they so wish, they can use the work tools made available by Agric\u0153ur at very affordable prices. These tools range from actual farmland to processing workshops and storage and sales areas, as well as meeting places and networking activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of which revolve around the core values which Agric\u0153ur holds dear: people, cooperation and sociability. The cooperative enables these entrepreneurs to take part in the events it organises and to meet people from their own or complementary sectors. The idea being to forge and strengthen links that enable them to work together and develop their respective businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking over<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a veritable fount of new ideas, the Agric\u0153ur <\/a>team does not stop there, offering a wide range of initiatives and services. Entrepreneurs can organise their own events, festive activities, meetings, training courses or workshops by hiring one of the indoor and\/or outdoor spaces provided by the cooperative. And they should not worry about thinking big: this exceptional setting has 1,100 m\u00b2 of indoor space and 1.5 hectares of outdoor space!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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