On his organic dairy farm, Van Tilburg has 70 hectares of land with 65 cows and a so-called ‘self-harvest garden’. “During the season, from mid-May to mid-November, 125 families come to harvest. We all grow the vegetables ourselves. The families who bought the harvest portion at the beginning of the year receive weekly instructions from us about what they can harvest. A lot This means that people no longer have to buy vegetables from the supermarket, they are completely supplied by our garden. Volunteers from the village also work, in this way all kinds of networks are created between farmers and citizens.”
From self-harvest garden to farm shop: these farmers help close the gap with the citizen
