Who are our teachers?

Wouter van Eck

Wouter van Eck

Wouter is one of the great pioneers of the Dutch food forest movement. His vision of this farming method based on natural principles is crystal clear and has...
Martijn Aalbrecht

Martijn Aalbrecht

This extremely humble very knowledgeable teacher calls himself the Food Boss because others thought he was. We concur with this conclusion. Martijn is not only...
Evelyn Derksen

Evelyn Derksen

Food forest designer Evelyn Derksen not only draws for lots of food forest designs, she can teach you like no other how to think then. In...

Marieke Karssen

Marieke has been an entrepreneur since 1988, first in the internet/web realm, but as of 2015 she works only on, with and for companies that...
Marly Bonten

Marly Bonten

Marly Bonten is a special kind of food forest expert. Namely, she focuses on flavors and recipe development with the harvests from the food forest and...
Arne Driessen

Arne Driessen

Arne Driessen Arne is a gardener, japanologist, investor and now food forest planter. So he is knowledgeable about content and financing and...
Anje Poortman

Anje Poortman

Anje is a true food forest entrepreneur. At Food from the Forest she has been supervising almost all courses for three years now and in between, but especially in...

Liesbeth van Bemmel

Once a senior policy advisor/project leader at an industry organization and now a full-time food forest builder, trainer, coach and consultant who can tell like no other...

Linda Buijsman

After years of working as an architect (MSc TU Delft ) on very large (recreation) and small (residential) projects and a company for compact...
Jan Degenaar

Jan Degenaar

Jan is both a philosopher and a biologist. A golden background for a food forest pioneer. Jan Degenaar provides the afternoon class excursion at Lekker Landgoed in the basic module. He ...
Jan Huijgen

Jan Huijgen

Jan was never a “typical” farmer. He’s a wellspring of ideas, and early on he made the decision not to engage in intensive...
Joke Feenstra

Joke Feenstra

Joke is one of the founders of Cooperative Arbres, and thus of food forest the Waalgaard and more and more food forests. Her main tasks all have...

Maarten Jansen

Maarten is the son of a gardener in organic roses and potted plants. Logical then to follow a horticultural education. After completing the training...

Madelon Oostwoud

Madelon Oostwoud is a designer and gardening writer. In recent years, she has written several successful books on edible plants for small, medium, and large plots; ‘A...
taco blom

Taco Blom

Taco is one of the leading pioneers of the Dutch permaculture movement and has been a permaculture instructor, landscape designer, and consultant to government agencies and farmers for many years regarding...
Weruschca Kirkegaard

Weruschca Kirkegaard

Weruschca's resume is very interesting: styling, hospitality, permaculture, social media and now a big scale ecosystem restoration designer you can't...

Wide van der Kooij

Wide was an all-around landscape designer before she began focusing on designing food forests, and that means she doesn't just focus on...
Maarten Schrama

Maarten Schrama

Maarten is one of the two founders of the amazingly beautiful food forest Lekker Landgoed. He is also a doctor of biology/ecology with specializations in...

Frank de Gram

Frank is both a green activist and highly experienced in working with people distanced from the workforce. In food forests, it comes...

Frank Gorter

Frank is an independent ecopreneur and co-founder of Food from the Forest. He knows the world of estates and has a clear vision for the...
Sonne Copijn

Sonne Copijn

Sonne speaks -as she says herself- on behalf of the 20,000 species of bees on this planet. She talks about how they live, as well as how...
Teryl and Claudia Chapel

Teryl and Claudia Chapel

Teryl With a Master of Science degree in Integrative Eco-Social Design from Gaia University, he designed and built an edible aquaponics wall for restaurant Page in...