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Aarde-Werk 'de Stegge'

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Commenced:	01/06/2007
Submitted:	27/01/2015
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Geessinkweg 3, Winterswijk Kotten, Gelderland, NL
Phone:	0031543563717
Website:	www.aarde-werkdestegge.nl
Climate zone:	Cool Temperate

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Aarde-Werk 'de Stegge'

Project Type

Rural, Residential, Educational

Project Summary

Aarde-Werk 'de Stegge' is an educational Institute for Permaculture and Deep Ecology. In courses, workshops and co-working weeks, visitors can 'live' in a permaculture surrounding with a high level of selfsufficiency for both visistors as residents.

Project Description

Aarde-Werk 'de Stegge' is located in old agricultural farmland in the East of the Netherlands, 42 m above sealevel in a cool temperate climate with 850mm rainfall a year. The 1,96 ha with a small height difference of 2,5 m is formed by a 0,5 ha grainfield, 0,6 ha meadow and pond, 0,4 ha vegetable and kitchen gardens, 0,2 ha foodforests and orchard and 0,26 ha for acces, coursebuilding, sheds, reedbed and residence of the owners.

Soilconditions are ameliorating since the property was bought, where they were detoriated before by heavy agricultural corn and potatoe growing for 30years... This is old farmland for 1200 years, so we want to restore it in good soil again: no tilling, bringing carbon in the soil, mulching and feeding the soil with compost, helped by our chicken, we will be able to restore the soil!

In the growing season over 150 people come to work with us on the land (Wwoofers, co-workers for a shorter or longer period and volunteers from the neighbourhood. We have followed the last PDC course of Geoff Lawton with a group of 9 people which groupe since then is transformed in a Permaculture Group Winterswijk, helping to work on a permaculture design for an organic farmer in the neighbourhood.

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