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Food Forest Ketelbroek

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Commenced:	01/05/2009
Submitted:	23/01/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Plakseweg, de Horst, NL
Website:	https://www.facebook.com/FoodforestKetelbroek
Climate zone:	Cool Temperate

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Food Forest Ketelbroek

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Rural, Demonstration, Educational

Project Summary

Bridging the gap between food production and nature by growing a foodforest (an edible forest garden) and an organic agroforesty part. This project started about 150 000 years ago, when in this region enormous glaciers of land ice coming from Scandinavia reached as far south as exactly this spot. Hence a relatively low place was created, surrounded by hills being pushed along. (This is a private project but tours are given, check www.FoodForestery.nl)

Project Description

Bridging the gap between food production and nature by growing a foodforest (an edible forest garden) and an organic agroforestry part.

This project started about 150 000 years ago, when in this region enormous glaciers of land ice coming from Scandinavia reached as far south as exactly this spot. Hence a relatively low place was created, surrounded by hills being pushed along. Later wind did bring fertile loess, with dust storms originating from the North Sea (in those days without water). In 2009 in this area 2.4 hectare of bareland was purchased. We now are creating a food forest, an orchard for production of cider and establishing nut production (silvoarable).

Hedges have been planted, for beauty, biodiversity and windbreak. Many fruit trees (for instance peach, pawpaw, Japanese plums, kaki), nuts (chestnut, hazel, walnut, heartnut, hickory) and shrubs (as gooseberry, Nanking cherry, Siberian peatree) do promise rich harvests in future times. In between, open spaces are created, both for making ponds and growing our fast food (sun loving crops as potatoes and pumpkins).

Foodforest Ketelbroek is located in the Netherlands, about 12 kilometres south of Nijmegen (actually very close to the border with Germany). The landscape around the spot is beautiful: countryside with some wooded hills and a swamp (both nature reserves) can be seen.

Pieter Jansen and Wouter van Eck initiated and are owen of Food Forest Ketelbroek. Xavier joined them in 2012 contributing to the project in various ways.

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