UPDATE: WE ARE FULLY BOOKED AND WE CANNOT ACCEPT NEW REQUEST FOR OUR 2026 SEASON!
Hi there, we are Stefan and Eveline and we run a small agro-ecological farm where we grow around 100 different types of seasonal vegetables, some herbs and some fruits (mostly berries). We live together with about 30 pets; chickens, ducks, dogs, cat, geckos, bunnies, goats, and our pigs. We own a little farm shop on site, where we sell our produce directly to our customers.
We start each day with checking on our animals, harvesting produce for orders and working at our market garden. Typical chores including weeding, planting, sowing, building simple constructions for the plants to grow up and mowing grass to maintain the market garden. We grow our own plants from seeds, so we spend quite some time taking care of the seedlings. We have a cosy greenhouse (~130m2), when it rains we often work there.
you will be staying in our guest apartment with private entry, your own kitchen (incl laundry machine), bathroom, living room and bedroom. The guest apartment has one bedroom with a single queen sized bed, that easily fits two people. We will only host two people at the same time if you travel together (couples, friends etc) and if you agree to share the bed, we will never set you up with a stranger. We will eat lunch and dinner together at the farm house or in our garden, breakfast will be provided to be prepared in the guest apartment, as especially early mornings can sometimes be a bit hectic for us with rushing to get everything done in time. We also work with a small group of local volunteers on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (they start at 09:00am). Our own work hours depend on the season and the weather. Weekends are off, you can us that time to relax and/or go sightseeing. We have bicycles that you can use to get around and there is a bus stop in town that will bring you to various nearby cities and train stations. We try to offer diverse chores, in summer there always will be a lot of weeding.
We love spending time with our animals, cooking meals and enjoy being outside. There are a lot of good hiking and (mountain)biking areas close-by. We live in an area with a high density of dreamy castles, great restaurants and cities as Utrecht, Amersfoort and Wageningen are just a short car drive or bus/train trip away.
Please include a little bit about yourself and your motivation (eg. your age, country of residence, your current occupation/activities) in the visit request, and also why you picked our farm, what you are looking forward to during your stay at the farm, what kind of work you would like to do, and whether you have experience in any of the listed chores. We do prefer stays of 2-4 weeks, such a time frame gives you the opportunity to learn quite some different jobs at the market garden, work independently, enjoy our beautiful region, and that way we also get to know each other better.
Expected chores/month:
-March & April: preparing market garden (spreading compost, woodchips), sowing vegetables
-May: Market garden maintenance (weeding), sowing vegetables, harvesting vegetables, planting seedlings, mowing paths
-June: Strawberry season (daily fruitpicking)! Market garden maintenance (weeding), planting seedlings, mowing paths
-July: Bean and potato season! Market garden maintenance (weeding), planting seedling, mowing paths
-August: Tomato, bean, raspberry and Zucchini season (daily picking). Market garden maintenance (weeding), mowing paths
-September: Pumpkin season, peak of harvest season. Market garden maintenance (weeding), mowing paths
-October: harvesting vegetables, picking raspberries, preparing the market garden for winter (remove plants, cover beds)
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Raising of other farm animals
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Food justice / sovereignty
Methods or systems
Regenerative agriculture
