A Place for a Chat or a Tasty Carrot on terrafoto Website by Ellen Kok

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A Place for a Chat or a Tasty Carrot on terrafoto Website

ellen kok

Oct 14, 2025

Small market gardens that sell healthy, fresh vegetables to local people by subscription and involve them with their cultivation are springing up all over the Netherlands. The gardeners often do not even have a farming background. Many say they don't want to wait any longer for politicians to finally come up with better agriculture, nature and climate policies.

I followed the early years of one of these new Dutch vegetable gardens: 'Proeftuin van Linschoten' (Taste Garden of Linschoten), an all female enterprise. I asked its gardeners why they chose to leave their former jobs as lawyer, organic certifier, family doctor and project manager to become veggie farmers.

Now you can see and read their story A Place for a Chat or a Tasty Carrot on the website of the international photographers group terrafoto.

This is the third and final part of my personal project Farming for the Neighbors.

Part 1 is Build Soil and Part 2 By Horse and by Hand.

Ellen Kok

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Introducing terrafoto

Exhibition: School - In Love, Bored & Overslept, Fotomuseum Den Haag, the Netherlands