The corporation members will have to go to the supermarket much less in the future, and the initiators are happy about that. “People think: it’s ridiculous that the beans come from Morocco, that we eat strawberries in the winter. Can’t there be any other way?”, says initiator Henk Vroom. Members can now also see how the food is made, where it comes from and there is no link between the farmer and the consumer.
200 families in Soest start their own farm: ‘They are my boss, but also my employees’
