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Help with a sustainable project and create a food forest in Middelbeers, the Netherlands

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  2025 

 Estancia mínima:  Una semana o menos

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    We are Bart and Hester. In 2022 we moved from Amsterdam to the rural area around Middelbeers to start a food forest. A food forest, if you haven’t heard of the concept before, is a place where trees, shrubs and multi annual plants form a self-sustaining ecological system that provides food for people and animals. Our food forest is designed to contribute to biodiversity, store CO2 and provide a wide diversity of food.

    We are tremendously enjoying living closer to nature and learning more about it every day. We’d like to share that experience with others and also to share what we’ve learned about food forests so far with those interested.

    Our home is right next to the forest and a renovated traditional farmhouse, originally built in 1848.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Ayuda en una granja
    Ayuda doméstica
    Mantenimiento general
  • Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de las NU
    Fin de la pobreza
    Hambre cero
    Salud y bienestar
    Educación de calidad
    Igualdad de género
    Agua limpia y saneamiento
    Energía asequible y no contaminante
    Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
    Industria, innovación e infraestructura
    Reducción de las desigualdades
    Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
    Producción y consumo responsables
    Acción por el clima
    Vida submarina
    Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
    Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
    Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    In our ‘former lives’ in Amsterdam and abroad, we were used to meeting a lot of different people. We do miss that sometimes and are looking forward to doing that again in our own home 😊

    If you’re interested in preparing, preserving and fermenting food and drinks, we’ll be happy to share what we’ve learned, and eager to learn what you might know about your country’s or your personal specialties. Some of the food we grow in our forest is better known in other countries than here, so we’re very interested in everything you can teach us about them.

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    We started growing our forest in 2022, and planted around 1500 trees and shrubs since. We are looking for help planting new trees and shrubs, attending to the ones that are already there, creating micro bio systems, generally all kinds of work that sees to growing and maintaining the forest. The work isn’t generally overly heavy. Think regular gardening but on a larger scale.

    We enjoy sharing what we’ve learned about food forests and biodiversity. We’ll often be working with you but not all the time, since we also have regular (parttime) jobs to attend to.

    We could also use help in the general maintenance of our farm house, but that will only be a large part of your work when this interests you and has been agreed upon beforehand. Or perhaps when it’s really too rainy and/or cold to work outside 😉

  • Idiomas hablados

    Inglés: Fluido
    Holandés: Fluido
    Alemán: Intermedio

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    Workawayers stay in a former art studio in our farm house. It’s a beautiful and quite big (70m2) space but as yet relatively sparsely decorated (see photos). The studio has two single beds and has its own bathroom.

    In winter (or when with a bigger group) the studio is sometimes too cold and you can use the guest room in our house. This room has traditional small windows and is therefore quite dark, but it does also have it’s own bathroom.

    Meals provided are vegetarian and biological.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    Where we live is about as remote as it gets in The Netherlands (which is not very remote ;-)) There is a lot of nature around at walking or cycling distance. If you can’t bring a bike, you’re welcome to borrow ours. The village of Middelbeers is about 2 kilometers away, the bigger villages Oirschot and Hilvarenbeek around 10, and the cities of Eindhoven and Tilburg 23 kilometers. Public transport is available but it does take quite a long time to get anywhere, and even less available in the evenings and weekends. You’ll be most happy here if you enjoy being outdoors, hiking or cycling in the area or working or relaxing in our growing forest.

    We have a young cat, Minou who loves the company of people.

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    We have a high speed internet connection. We both often work from home and we’ve never had problems. The studio where you’ll be staying is big, 70 m2, and has two tables and chairs. The tables are just tables but two chairs have adjustable heights, so you should even be able to create an ergonomically sound work place.

  • Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Your camper can be parked on our terrain, but electricity is probably hard to arrange (we haven’t tried, but don’t count on it.) You could use facilities in the house and sleep in your camper. For families: children are only welcome, and you should only want to come with your children if they can swim (well). There are several ponds on the grounds.

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

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Número de referencia de anfitrión: 175123978916

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