A few months ago, it was still a dream to cycle and learn more about sustainable agricultural practices along the way. Exactly three months ago today, we started from Wageningen and now we are in Athens, Greece. We have officially cycled through the whole of Europe!!! As I type this I can’t believe it…. we […]
Our third visit after 416 km of cycling – Hof Lebens berg, a 30 ha community farm. Our visit to Hof Lebens berg gave us a different perspective on the amount of work that goes into regenerating the land. Check out how they are building a healthy ecosystem and producing healthy food. We hope you
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Nature-inclusive agriculture from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Our second farm visit after 50 km of cycling – De Biesterhof, a farm managed by Claudi Rudorf and Howard Koster. Two young people who switched their city lives in Berlin for building their own regenerative agriculture farm in a small town called Millingen aan de Rijn. We felt inspired
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2,5 months passed since we left Wageningen, we crossed the Balkan region and we are now already in Greece! Time to settle at a new farm and share our first thoughts on cycling through the Balkan region. Croatia Croatia in our opinion felt like a cross-over country. It had traits from Western European countries but
The generosity of people It is not always easy to knock on random people’s doors and ask if we can pitch a tent in their garden… You have to overcome yourself to show your vulnerability, and fear of failure and you must trust human kindness. Humans are amazing! Full of love, empathy and compassion.So far we
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Finally after cycling 2000 km and writing this from a camping in Montenegro we are releasing the very first video of Cycle to Farms project. It has been two beautiful months on the road already. During this time we have learned a lot and we are ready to share it with you! Enjoy watching and
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When we met in Wageningen at Cafe Imagine, where we drank our first cup of tea together. Aisha introduced the idea of cycling from Cairo to Cape Town. For Lukas, the idea was shocking at the time and it felt unimaginable. Perhaps that is how most people feel when they first hear about such ideas.
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It is now a month since we left our home to cycle towards Tanzania, visiting farms along the way. To be honest, the road and weather have treated us well so far. We were also lucky to have so many friends and family along the way where we could stay for a hot shower, a
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Thinking global, acting local. After cycling 1200 km, visiting the food forest Ketelbroek, the Biesterhof farm in the Netherlands, Hof Lebensberg farm in Germany and Grand Farm in Austria. We have been discussing extensively about how to best help and support different regenerative farms. We discovered 3 ways how we think you could support the farms
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We have cycled 536 km over the last 3 weeks. The slow cycling gave us the opportunity to spend enough of time on the farms and to reflect on what we have learned from the farmers, but also to reflect on our mission. To start things off we reflected that we need to introduce our
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