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Texel – Island of Delight in the North Sea
North Sea – here we come! Travel expert Tamina Kallert and top chef Björn Freitag enjoy culinary delights and holiday fun on the Dutch coast. A tour around the Wadden Sea island of Texel: whether it’s a windmill, harbor, dune landscape, or lighthouse – Tamina and Björn won’t miss a single island highlight. Here is…
Read MoreSuccessful trade fair at Hotel Opduin
Last weekend, we attended the trade fair for Texel products at Hotel Opduin in De Koog. With pride, we presented our seaweed and World Heritage products, including saline Waddengoud potatoes, organic Van de Wadden saline potatoes, and our unique seaweed fertilizer for crops. We enthusiastically shared the benefits of seaweed: sustainable, flavorful, and innovative. The…
Read MoreDiscover the Salty Cuisine of Texel
Fun and Educational Outing on Texel: Zilte Proeverij We regularly take a day trip to Texel to go cycling. With the bike on the ferry, crossing over to the island. It feels like a real vacation, and it’s so close. Some areas of the island can be busy, but outside the villages, you can enjoy…
Read MorePioneer in organic and saline agriculture awarded knighthood
Pioneer in Organic and Saline Agriculture Awarded Knighthood He is considered a pioneer in biodynamic agriculture and has spent many years advocating for saline agriculture both domestically and internationally. Marc van Rijsselberghe’s work was honored with a Royal decoration on Friday morning. He was appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. This occurred in the…
Read MoreWaddenfonds funds new aquaculture project on Texel
The Waddenfonds is providing more than € 2.5 million in funding for four new projects in the fields of aquaculture and cultural heritage. This contribution will make possible a total investment of € 3.7 million in the Wadden area. The Wadden Fund aims to develop and further scale up the cultivation of saline agricultural and…
Read MoreProject Bonaire updates (summer 2020)
In this article, we bring you updates on our Bonaire project from Bonaire and Texel. Updates from Bonaire location Workshop ‘micro-credit in agriculture’ on Bonaire. There are many people on Bonaire who want to practice agriculture, but cannot start because investments have to be made first. The land often needs to be fenced and cleaned.…
Read MoreSetting up Saline agriculture test locations on Bonaire
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a crisis unlike any we’ve seen. Food export and import have been affected in many parts of the world due to the restriction on transportation. Salt Farm Foundation has been receiving various emails from countries such as the Maldives and Nepal which have been affected due to restrictions in trade.…
Read MoreReport – Seaweed as fertilizer and biostimulant
Louis Bolk Instituut at the request of Salt Farm Foundation has made a report on the potential of using Seaweed and algae extract as leaf fertilizer and biostimulant in the cultivation of salt-tolerant potato. This report was made possible with the support of the project – Interreg North Sea Region SalFar. Read the abstract and…
Read MoreSalFar report on International Farmers cafe 2019
Interested to know of which crop farmers were most curious to know the salt tolerance? Read this report on the International Farmers cafe that was organised as a part of the Saline Future Conference in September 2019. This report was developed by our project partners as a part of the Interreg North-Sea region SalFar. Report…
Read MoreSaline Farming: An innovative method of farming to cope with climate change
Climate change and sea level rise cause saltwater to intrude in farmlands. Experts are looking for solutions that prevent the loss of food production capability where saline farming could very well be the solution. From 10-13 September the Saline Futures Conference will take place in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands to put the potential of saline farming…
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