Stories

At Boerderij De Meent, healthy soil is vital for the cultivation of tasty and healthy vegetables. As part of our farm's educational trajectory, we followed the composting workshop in November by Ann Doherty at the Stadsboerderij Osdorp. The visit to this inspiring place helped us to see how composting can be done using different methods, which gave us inspiration on how to improve at our own farm. At the end, the workshop was not only insightful but also very informative, gi

The summer is at its end, still we are harvesting abundantly from the garden. Yet the change in seasons is visible, with heavy rainfall, strong wind and declining temperatures, indicating that autumn is coming. With the change of the seasons, we need to prepare ourselves and the garden for the winter that is coming. In doing so and as part of the education trajectory at the farm, we followed the workshop “From autumn to winter in the garden & seed saving” by Ann Doherty, a w

De Meent is our piece of common land where our community, consisting of undocumented migrants and volunteers, share the responsibility to cultivate and maintain the land and keep livestock. At De Meent we provide a place to meet, grow food, and to develop our skills and knowledge. Within our 'Stories of De Meent’ series we would like to introduce our farm and our community. In this first story we will shed light to the chickens and their guardian, Eugene, who is originally f