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On Thursday, November 12, Food from the Forest is hosting a knowledge session titled “The Living Soil” about soil and soil life. This session will be held online from 3:00 p.m. to...

On Saturday, September 5, 2026, more than 120 food forests throughout the Netherlands opened their doors for the very first nationwide Open Food Forest Day. Visitors came from near and far...

In both Amsterdam and Groesbeek, more than fifty guests gathered around long tables for a full-course meal made from ingredients sourced from Dutch food forests. What was served...

Food forests are often seen as a promising way to increase biodiversity, but what about soil life? Research by Isabelle...

On Tuesday, June 23, Food from the Forest is hosting Food from the Forest informational session on how to apply HACCP guidelines in practice. This informational session...

With its "Food Food from the Forest Dinners" series, the Food from the Forest Association is heading out into Food from the Forest countryside. Together with members and local food forests, we’re exploring all the different...

On Saturday, April 11, 2026, about 18 food foresters gathered to discuss the topic “What do we do with the harvest?” We were guests...

In the fifth season of the Food Forest Podcast, Frank Gorter and Marieke Karssen have moved beyond the pioneering phase. Just like the food forest movement. In this season, we’ll...

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has published the final results of the 2025 Agricultural Census, including the area of food forests in the Netherlands...

For years, I had dreamed of living in France. When the idea of food forests came into the picture, the dream grew even bigger, but taking the plunge...

On February 26, the General Members Meeting (GMM) took place, the best attended to date. We shared conclusions and plans about organization, knowledge sharing, and more.

Kwekerij Koperwiek and Food from the Forest joining forces to build a fully-fledged knowledge center, including a professional kitchen...

On Friday, January 23, the Gelderland provincial group of Food from the Forest held its New Year's meeting. We were guests at Veld4, the walnut processor...

We look back on a very fruitful 2025 and forward to what is sure to be an even richer food forest year. Read more in the Food from the Forest ...

Saturday, Nov. 1, the 2nd meeting of the Overijssel Province Group was held, this time at Food Forest Within & Outside in Krim. From the...

Monday, Oct. 27, Food from the Forest is hosting a knowledge session on whether or not to apply for a Bio label for food forests. This knowledge session is online...

The numbers speak for themselves. Just before Association Day, we tapped the 550 member mark. 200 people had signed up and almost everyone...

The second edition of the Open Food Forest Day in the province of Utrecht was a great success. In twelve Utrecht food forests, enthusiastic managers and volunteers, opened...

Wednesday afternoon, July 16, 21 food foresters and interested parties including a beekeeper, a booster of the (Frisian) food transition and a doctor gathered at Koldyk in...

July 5 was the day, the kick-off meeting of the Overijssel Province Group. With about 30 people we were guests at Erve Weusthag....

It was packed on Sunday afternoon, May 25, during the first meeting of the North Holland Provincial Group at the LiberTerra residential community in Koedijk. ...

The Overijssel Province Group does not have its kick-off meeting until July 5. But already very nice collaborations are growing. ...

Are you also curious how biodiverse your food forest (already) is? Via a handy tool from voedseluithetbos you can easily measure the biodiversity...

Els van Weering visits food farmers and records what goes right and what goes wrong. In their food forests, but also in their...

On Sunday, April 27, some 20 Brabant food foresters gathered at food forest D'Ekkers on the Westakkers in Berlicum. This food forest is 1.5 acres...

On April 18, the Food from the Forest province group South Holland was a guest at Food Forest Eetlust in Greup. Johan Kruijthoff led the group around...

Els van Weering visits food farmers and records what goes right and what goes wrong. In their food forests, but also in their...

Every year we give the food forest cast a theme. This year we chose the theme of health. Healthy as in "not sick" but...

Els van Weering visits food farmers and records what goes right and what goes wrong. In their food forests, but also in their...

On Friday, March 7, a group of at least 25 Gelderland food farmers gathered for the first time in the yard of Taco Ruighaver and Robert...

Els van Weering visits food farmers and records what goes right and what goes wrong. In their food forests, but also in their...

In this series on the ups and downs of food forest country, Els van Weering visits food farmers to capture what's good and what's...

On Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, some 60 food forest enthusiasts from the province of Utrecht gathered at Natuurmonumenten in Haarzuilens. The theme of the morning...

A report on the first live meeting on Jan. 10, 2025. ...

In January 2025, it was only official. But already as of Oct. 17, 2023, we have ANBI status. ...

In this series on the ups and downs of food forest country, Els van Weering visits food farmers to capture what's good and what's...

Our Food from the Forest, Els van Weering, visits food farmers and records what goes right and what goes wrong. In their...

On Saturday, Oct. 19, almost exactly one year after the launch of the Food from the Forest Association, we celebrated the harvest. The harvest...

At the last General Membership Meeting, we presented our new policy plan. Our members contributed valuable suggestions and ideas, and the result is a...

This is the issue that most concerns the food forest world: how do we get young planting stock, often starting on poor soils, or competing with grass,...

Every year we organize, together with you, a biodiversity measurement and post the result in our open data source. Because of the different types of plants...

The third season of the Foodforest Podcast (in Dutch) is live! In this first episode, Frank Gorter and Marieke Karssen explore the limits of...

They are out there: people who (want to) make a living from their food forest and make it their profession: food forest farmer, food forest job or food forest entrepreneur. Indeed, it...

For most food forest start-ups, this is the trickiest issue: money, (good) agreements, earning capacity, regulations and contracts. You want to get started restoring...

Every food forest is different. You could almost say, just as every garden is different. The owner or designer can make a lot of their own...

A food forest is not just a pile of trees and shrubs that are edible. A successful food forest that you don't have to fertilize, and where...

We decided to turn our VOF into an association and and then organized a day with no program and also no catering. Terrifying, of course, but...

A financial reward for an ecosystem service: how does it work? And is it okay? ...

In 2022, food forests were included separately in the national soil animal test for the first time. Originally, this test-like so many citizen science or citizen science tests-was...

How do the various food forest studies relate to each other? And what role does citizen science play in this? Jeroen Kruit explains how the pyramid of data aligns...

Spring had a slow start, but now it's really here. And so nature is exploding. A perfect time to see the biodiversity of...

After a few months of winter hibernation, Frank Gorter and Marieke Karssen set out again this year in search of answers. And, like last year, they will begin...

"Above all, never ask for more than is really necessary," but also "Talk to your municipality right away," and "Without a permit, you won't succeed. Just like that...

Six (food) forest designs, based on six very different initial situations (pasture, field, forest, orchard), that is result 1 of this project. Result 2: an online tool...

In June, I sat down to talk with Kyara Smit. Together with her sister Carlyn, she started food forest project 't Mortelke in 2019. Two...

The Pollinators are going to run a very nice promotion. Together with their partner Natuurhuisje. During the TREEVEMBER campaign, 50 food forests can participate in collecting...

Last September, I taught our business plan module. In this module, we guide participants in developing their business plan. That...

Episode 8 and 9 of the Food Forestcast are about money. We speak with Vincent Bogaart and Arne Driessen about their personal paths, as well as...

Meanwhile, in my research into the operation and possible improvement of economic monitoring, I have conducted eight interviews. Four with owners of food forests....

You start a food forest for the next 400 years and therefore for all generations of the future. Starting with the children of today....

In the project "Attractive (food) forest landscapes," six forest landscapes are being designed, for six very different plots of landowners in Gelderland. After all, in the Netherlands we want more...

Liesbeth has a unique story to tell within the food forest world for two reasons. First, she has a legal background and can...

The food forest cast train is running. We are already on the fourth episode and the conversations are incredibly interesting each time. The audience is also responding positively....

When I just started gardening, I heard this from another avid gardener: gardeners never agree with each other, because all gardeners...

Frank Gorter and Marieke Karssen had been running with the idea in their heads for years. A podcast. Not about food forests, but about their creators/builders/starters. What ...

We are living through crisis after crisis after storm after drought after flood and now war. A horribly old-fashioned war full of fossil fuel vulnerabilities. Which is decidedly current ...

In three intensive periods of 6 to 7 weeks each, spread out over the season, Frank Gorter and Marieke Karssen take the students on...

In the business cases and in the budget tool you can find on this platform, you can see that food forests have a long lead time, but...