Join us this summer to the first Food Forest of the Netherlands: Food Forest Ketelbroek!
This project started about 150.000 years ago, when in this region enormous glaciers of land ice coming from Scandinavia reached as far south as exactly this spot. Hence a relatively low place was created, surrounded by hills being pushed along.
After a big success with the first summer WWOOF week, we decided to organise a second week this summer! This time with even more farms and gardens in the Netherlands.
WWOOF is a cultural exchange at a sustainable farm or garden, in which the sharing of life and culture are central. In order to truly experience the life of a farmer or gardener, you live and eat together with your host and you share knowledge and skills. You can go WWOOFing in almost every country in the world; and – yes – also in the Netherlands 🙂 Did you know that we have 45 WWOOF farms and gardens in the Netherlands?!
The Farm Experience Internship (FEI) is a course (3 ECTS) created to bring together practice of the farmer and theory of the student, aiming to create bridges between University and farmers. Many educational institutes, in Europe and around the world have developed similar courses, internships or projects, in which students go for a practical experience in a local farm. The results of this kind of initiative are often very positive, as the students can connect what they learned in the farm with their studies as well as develop their critical thinking.
Read more20 July-14 August: Farm Experience Internship (3 ects)
Did you visited the Creative Community Garden already? This is your opportunity! On the 20th of June, Boerengroep will organize Bike Trip #2 to this garden, where Wageningers citizens and students&PhD’ers of the WUR grow their lovely veggies and organize garden days, all kinds of workshops, parties and dinners. We’ll get a tour around the place and a very nice workshop!
Read more20 June: Bike Trip Community garden and Historical Garden of King Willem III
Join with Boerengroep to the capital of the Netherlands! On the 27th of June there will be an Old Amsterdam Food Tour. An inspiring 2,5 hour walk through the beautiful city Amsterdam, where you will discover Historic Food Trails, Tastes and Traditions.
Its Open Day at the Veld and Beek organic dairy farm! We will get a special guided tour in English and there will be real Dutch ice cream from the farm! Jummie!
After an exciting lecture series of Studium Generale, debates whether we need farmers or not, it is time for the next step! Hanny van Geel (La Via Campesina) will explain us all about agroecology as a practice and a movement.
Boerengroep goes WWOOFing this summer! We have selected interesting gardens and farms in the Netherlands for you for a nice week in the summer together!
You can sign up alone or with a friend and choose a farm of your preference from the list below. Send an email to st.boerengroep@wur.nl before July 1st. Don’t wait too long, because the number of places is limited.
WWOOF is a cultural exchange at a sustainable farm or garden, in which the sharing of life and culture are central. In order to truly experience the life of a farmer or gardener, you live and eat together with your host and you share knowledge and skills.
Every Thursday, from 12:30 – 13:15 you are welcome to join Farmers’ Tales, an informal place to meet up for a coffee or tea with other students, PhD’ers, researchers, farmers and anyone else interested in topics like agroecology, starting up a farm, nutrient cycles, land grabbing, TTIP, the political side of food, food chains and much … Read more
Food chains documentary & debate
Do you shop at Albert Heijn? Supermarkets have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this. The movie ‘Food chains’ documents the fight of Florida farmworkers through their ingenious Fair Food Program.
