We share the most interesting and inspiring stories of the international exchange in the Netherlands under the NEWBIE project, the Horizon 2020, organized by the Wageningen Research Institute in October 2021 HYBRID EXCHANGE: participants from Bulgaria, Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands were present on the field, and online presence from the United Kingdom, France and […]

Risk, responsibility and liability in multifunctional agriculture Multifunctional agriculture (MFL) companies receive many visitors to their farms. That gives questions about risks, responsibility and liability for you as farmer. In the revised brochure Risk, responsibility and liability in multifunctional agriculture, MFL farmers get answers to this questions. Many new entrants in farming do have a […]

Hoeve Kazan, a beef cattle farm owned by John and Saskia Joha, is located on the borders of North and South Holland and Utrecht. They started with four cows and five sheep and now have a thriving business with a thriving farm shop. How did a shoemaker’s daughter and the youngest son of a dairy […]

The jury considers it an enormous achievement how Jessica and Maurits, as new entrants into agriculture, have developed a fully-fledged agricultural company from scratch in a short period of time. Most of all how they did this: based on a very clear vision of what a sustainable livestock farm should look like, with two important […]

This online discussion circle was about sharing information and inspiration on the topic of access to land. In the Netherlands the prices for buying land are very high (60.000 – 100.000 euros a hectare) so for most new entrants that is not an option. So several models of landowners and farmers working together were discussed. […]

Real Estate Eyckenstein provides access to land to Dutch Newbies The newbie teams in the Netherlands just published an article about a real estate that gives place to 3 Newbies. The estate has a size of 430 hectares of land on which three new entrants in agriculture are renting land and buildings. There is the […]

Cultivating land, not owning it This online discussion circle, with 10 participants on the 16th of June, was about sharing information and inspiration on the topic of access to land. In the Netherlands the prices for buying land are very high (60.000 – 100.000 euros a hectare) so for most new entrants that is not […]

On January 24, Andries Visser, coordinator of the Newbie project handed out the first Dutch Newbie award at the yearly organic agriculture fair in Zwolle, the Netherlands. The award was given to Els Hegger and Stefan Landstede of the farm “de Mobiele Gaard” which can be translated as “The mobile garden”. The Dutch steering committee […]

Andries Visser, coordinator of the newbie project was invited to speak about the role of new entrants in vitalising marginal areas on the conference #Feedingtheworld2018 in Madrid, Spain.

On the 1st of October 2018, a team of the Newbie consortium met in Brussels with representatives from both COPA-COGECA and CEJA.