13/01/2020 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Arne Hendriks is – as artist in residence at the WUR – working on art that depicts the challenges and opportunities of the protein transition. Next Monday he will share with us what this transition could look like from an artistic point of view. It involves questions of (de)growth, a change of logic and some […]

13/12/2019 @ 12:30 – 13:30 – At the next Farmers’ Tales the floor will be taken by Jesse Opdam and Jessica Snoek! Together they will come to speak about the tales of the West Ardnamurchan Community Garden; an old crofters community of just 150 people in the most westerly part of the British mainland. Fresh local produce are provided to residents […]

09/12/2019 @ 19:00 – 21:00 – Come join us for an evening where we will look into the position of female farmers around the globe! Together with ActionAid we will talk about the obstacles female farmers face regarding land rights in Southern countries. In most African countries women are responsible for more than 80% of the small scale farming, but land […]

06/12/2019 @ 12:30 – 13:30 – On the 6th of December, Wageningen University welcomes the king of the Netherlands to open the new research center of Unilever on the campus. After Friesland Campina, the WUR now has another close partner in the business world that has it’s own building between the education and research buildings. As critical student organizations, Otherwise and […]

07/12/2019 @ 11:00 – 17:00 – On our last excursion of the year, and after a tumultuous season of farmers’ protests, Boerengroep will take you to a farmer who did not feel to join these protests. He is stongly opinionated on matters such as nature inclusive farming and the nitrogen issue and he runs a highly mixed, organic, circular farm to […]

29/11/2019 @ 12:30 – 13:30 – We are very happy to have Petra Derkzen to present her personal “Farmers’ Tale” as co-operator of Ekoboerderij de Lingehof, a bio-dynamic arable farm located in Randwijk, the Overbetuwe. During this lunchbreak-talk, Petra will take on the floor to talk about herself, the farm and their approach / vision towards (bio-dynamic) agriculture. Plenty of time […]