With a metabolic system, all residual products are reused and upgraded to a valuable product. For example, residual products from supermarkets and bakeries become pig feed and thus meat as food. And manure becomes a nutrient for algae and thus color for the paint industry. The metabolic system that shows an enormous wealth of all kinds of streams forms the basis of the spatial concept of Agro as de Peel. This system is never finished or completely closed and can always be enriched and expanded. The design should therefore be read as one of the possible outcomes of this system. It is flexible and robust and therefore focused on changes over time. By seeing it as a growth model, it moves with the transition from animal protein production to vegetable protein production. This is a gradual transition in which both production methods can function alongside and with each other.

The current landscape of the Peel is very suitable for a large-scale circular system of animal and vegetable protein production. The rational structure of avenues and forests with linear, right-angled canals and roads offers space and structure for the integration of surface-bound crops. The large built volumes of livestock farms, insect breeding and manure processing also fit well in terms of scale in this young mining landscape. In addition to land-based food crops, the future production landscape will consist of algae fields, duckweed baths, willow forests and reed flow fields. Especially along the Midden-Peelweg this wet cultivation will form the landscape image. All of this yields a protein-producing landscape where there is also room for nature, recreation, green industry and living. In addition to stimulating the economy, the proposed production landscape will also considerably strengthen the ecological values ​​in the area. New landscapes of sorghum, wet reeds, willow fields and food forests create a diverse and attractive environment for flora and fauna. Animals can freely forage in the production landscape and will also leave fertilizer behind.

In addition to offering a beckoning perspective for the Agro as de Peel, this report also serves as input for the development of a potential test location. The starting point for a test location is the creation of an innovation environment where entrepreneurs, citizens, knowledge institutions and governments work together on the transition of the primary sector. Entrepreneurs working at this location must be prepared to work with their colleagues to bring this goal closer. An open innovation model that is as open as possible is the starting point, where visiting entrepreneurs and citizens are welcome. In addition, a test location can serve as an example for the rest of the Netherlands, with a future perspective for entrepreneurs and residents of the area.