Brussels non-profit · since 2013

Eating well shouldn't be a privilege.

Man Natura connects small producers with the people of Brussels: eight weekly pick-up points, a street food festival drawing thousands, and corporate events sourced straight from local farms.

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A volunteer hands a paper bag of vegetables to a member, out on the street.

Brussels · since 2013

Good food · good people

2013

Founded

Pick-up points / week

11 yrs

of Brussels Food Festival

~30

Food stands per edition

Three ways we act

Talking wasn't enough. So we built the channels that were missing.

A woman handing a cloth tote bag of produce to a customer, with a child standing beside them.

Short chain · Crowdfarming

Short supply chain

Since 2013 we've run weekly pick-up points across Brussels on the Crowdfarming network (formerly The Food Assembly). You order online, the producer prepares, you collect.

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A couple sharing street food and laughing together.

Brussels Food Festival · Auderghem

Festival

Two weekends a year, around thirty kitchens from here and elsewhere, thousands of visitors and one rule: we eat well. Free and open to everyone.

brusselsfoodfestival.be

Heirloom tomatoes, red and yellow, presented in paper cones, seen from above.

Tailor-made events

Corporate events

We build corporate receptions around local products: cheesemakers, butchers, growers, bakers, brewers. The same network as our pick-up points, put to work for your event.

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What we believe

Buying local should be a reflex, not an effort.

We started by talking: conferences, debates and evenings about what's really on our plates. Talking stopped being enough very quickly.

So we opened pick-up points, professionalised the distribution, and built festivals around good cooking. Fair prices for the producer, real service for the customer, and pleasure as the starting point.

Marie, Camille, Didier & Mohamed

In pictures

The collections, the festival, the producers — all year round.

Hands reaching over crates of vegetables: courgettes, peppers and lettuce.

Crates of apples on a market stall, in front of handwritten chalkboard signs.

A hand holding a bunch of multicoloured carrots.

A greenhouse or shed with stacked green crates and people at a distance.

You grow it. We get it to the city.

Growers, cheesemakers, bakers, brewers, butchers: if you're looking for outlets in Brussels without losing your margin, let's talk. Our events are open to new producers too.

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