the grounds and buildings

The buildings

1. The front hall:  the main building at the front of the deep litter barn.  Managed by host Harry Lamberts; this building houses a majority of the meetings.
2. Deep litter barn with cattle:  people often walk along the open barn between meetings and look directly into the big brown eyes of the Blonde d' Aquitaines.
3. Small livestock barn 1:  home to the education office.  Nicolette van de Kamp and her co-workers develop educative programs here.
   Small livestock barn 2:  adjacent to the office, this is the reception room for education and the Boerenbakkie coffee house.  Marieke and Simone serve delicious coffee accompanied by homemade cake.
4. Hayshed 1:  the front of this building is home to the farm store with its delicious regional products.
   Hayshed 2:  a large open room used for meetings and family gatherings.
   Hayshed 3:  the offices of farmer Jan, Willem&Drees, Ark&Eemlandschap and the RIC Eemland- a regional innovation centre where various students work.
5. Haystack 1:  the actual hay and straw storage for the farm. Underneath this is a workshop for the care clients where many odd jobs for the farm are done.
6. Haystack 2:  the care farm d'Boerenkiel.  A place for the 'farmhands' that do many odd jobs on and around the farm.
7. Landscape house:  this new space is used for expositions and recreational landscape arrangements.  Below is the 'farm cinema' and above, the 'farm lounge' where regional people discuss the landscape; making plans and putting them into action.
8. The Serenity Island with a nature observatory.
9. Parking facilities on the east side of the farm with three entrances:  front entrance: direct access to meeting rooms, middle entrance:  access to offices and meeting rooms via the cows in the barn, back entrance by the roundabout:  entrance to the care farm and the landscape house.
10. Future residence
11. Goatshed
    

In the planning:  overnight lodging at the Boerenbedstee; semi 'mound' house Huijgen estate; nature observatory/ reflection room on the island; large event terrain.

The grounds

• rural development demonstration business (DPO) in education, regional products, care, recreation and bed & breakfast
• ecologically managed fields with agrarian nature management
• central farm area with the deep litter barn, haystack, goat shed, and silage storage
• ecologically managed garden
• small livestock paddock
• vegetable gardens
• bird observation point