Year: 2019
Vacancy Inspringtheater Coordinator
Hello everyone! Stichting Inspringtheater is looking for a new coordinator coming fall! What is Stichting Inspringtheater? Inspringtheater is the creative theater-part of Stiching Boerengroep. Insprinstheater connects students to real-life challenges of rural life and rural people (and more) by using interactive theater methods like forum theater. The vacancy for coordinator is for Dutch-speaking only. If … Read more
Looking for an interesting thesis? Boerengroep can help!
Stichting Boerengroep (Farmers Foundation) collects thesis topics, requested from farmers, movements, and students, in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice. PROPOSE A TOPIC. Do you have an interesting topic related to food, farming, agroecological movements etc.? Send us a mail and we’ll post it on our site and in our newsletter: st.boerengroep@wur.nl FIND … Read more
Farmers’ Tales: Elske Hageraats from the Ommuurde Tuin
Boerengroep decided to re-introduce the Farmers’ Tales! This is a platform for dialogue on the practices and politics, narratives and nuances of food production. It’s a place to meet up with other students, PhD’ers and researchers who are academically engaged with farmers worldwide. Next year, we plan to regularly have a farmer (or researcher) tell … Read more
Sustainability Day 2019 – Towards circular farming: annual forum
SUSTAINABILITY DAY 2019 – Towards circular farming: annual forum. Assessing the work in progress. October 10, 2019 | WUR, Wageningen PROGRAM 12:00-12:20 Walk-in, tea/coffee 12:20-12:35 General welcome, Introduction 12:40-14:00 THEME 1: Education and circular farming What does a paradigm shift towards circularity mean in education? Introduction by a speaker & panel discussion 14:00-14:20 Break … Read more
Together towards Circular Farming, episode #2: a dairy farmer’s case
On Thursday 20 of June, the Circular Farming Platform had its second episode of the series “Together towards circula r farming”, with as guest speaker small-scale dairy farmer Roel van Buuren, from the farm Landlust. Roel told us about his diversified farm and his perspective on the problems of our current food system, and … Read more
Farm Experience Internship 2019
The FEI is a growing movement, that is being co-created by peasants, farmers, gardeners, scientists, students, activists, NGOs and agroecological companies – working together towards a sustainable, healthy, viable food system that is fair and just for the earth, the consumer and the producer. Together, we co-organize a 3 ECTS international summer course at the … Read more
Last Boerengroep Break of the academic year
Next Wednesday we have our last Boerengroep Break of the year! Come and join us at 20h in Café Onder de Linden for an informal evening where we can talk about all the (farming-related) things! Do you have agricultural plans this summer? Did you enjoy this school year? Let’s take a break together before the … Read more