- You can order online, pay, and set a collect date
- There are several pick-up points in Capitol area
- Uudenmaan ruoka is using a smart door system
- The collecting time is around 30 hours, there are a couple of dates a week
- The selection varies seasonally
- It’s nice to get local seasonal food
- The money goes straight to the producers
- You don’t have to be a member of the cooperative to order food
The food hub Uudenmaan ruoka has been working for some years, now it will be a cooperative.
You can join now, it costs 50 euros if you’re a client, 500 euros if you’re a food producer. You don’t have to be a member of the cooperative to order food though.
You can order online, pay, and set a collect date and the food producers will transport the order along with all the other orders to a pick-up point.
There are several pick-up points in Capitol area, the one I use is in Herttoniemi (photo above). The space they have is located inside a shopping center Hertsi (photo below).
Uudenmaan ruoka is using a smart door system. You go to the website and sign in, press the ‘Open the door’ -button, go in and collect your bags and products.
There is a refrigerator, a cooler cabinet, a freezer, and shelves, very simple. The shelves were almost empty (photo below) as I was picking up later than most customers.
The collecting time is around 30 hours, there are a couple of dates a week.
There are farmers and producers in Uusimaa (New land) region, it is not all city areas.
You can choose from meats, for example venison – elk meat, chili-garlic herring, gravlax, cold-smoked Pike’s Roe, honey, bread, cereal, pasta, crispbread, Finnish apples, vegetables, cranberries, frozen blueberries, strawberries etc., eggs, garlic, masala and other spices, chutneys, ghee, yogurt, tofu, sprouted sunflower sprouts etc., paneer, Emmental-cheese, vegan vegetable kebab, funnel chanterelles, grow-your-own-mushrooms -grow kits and more.
The selection varies seasonally. For example, it’s the elk hunting season right now and the cranberries have been picked not long ago.
It’s nice to get local seasonal, good quality food and the prices are not that high if you stick to basic products. There are organic products available too.
It’s also good to give the money straight to the producers, and this way they get more than selling the products to supermarkets!
