Growing food with nature, not against it. Stichting Lenteland builds regenerative community farms: places where farmers grow healthy, local food without artificial fertilizers or pesticides, and where land is permanently protected from private speculation.
Agriculture & Soil
Stichting Lenteland was founded in 2021 by Wouter Veer with one core belief: food production doesn't have to be at odds with nature. Quite the opposite. When farming works with nature and actively strengthens it, everyone benefits: the soil, biodiversity, the climate and farmers themselves.
Lenteland develops regenerative community farms of an average of 10 to 25 hectares, in attractive locations close to residential areas. The farmer lives on the farm. There's a CSA market garden with daily-fresh vegetables and fruit, a pick-your-own orchard, agroforestry systems, herb-rich grasslands and fields with rotating crops. No artificial fertilizers, no pesticides, with full attention to soil life and biodiversity.
Each farm operates as a local cooperative. Farmers, investors, consumers and other stakeholders are co-owners. The land is legally protected as a common asset: it will never be sold and will remain permanently available for regenerative agriculture.
What Lenteland does:
Develops regenerative community farms across the Netherlands and Belgium
Supports pioneering farmers with farm startup, design and management
Permanently removes land from the speculative domain through cooperative ownership
Connects farmers, consumers, landowners and local investors
Scales and replicates the cooperative model for wider impact
As of 2026, seven Lenteland farms are active or in development, with more on the way.
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Conventional agriculture is under pressure, but the consequences reach far beyond the farm. What happens to our soil and food affects everyone.
Biodiversity loss and soil degradation
Artificial fertilizers and pesticides boost short-term yields but damage soil life and contribute to the disappearance of insects, birds and plants. Healthy soil is the foundation of all our food. Regenerative agriculture restores that foundation.
Access to land is a major barrier
Farmers who want to work regeneratively face high land rents, short lease terms and banks that push for scale-up and quick returns. A farm that only breaks even after five years won't qualify for a mortgage. Lenteland solves this by purchasing land and making it available to farmers through the cooperative, rent-free.
Land as a speculative asset
Land prices rise and ownership concentrates among those who already have the most. That system pushes toward scale and short-term thinking, which is bad for nature and farmers alike. The solution: land that becomes common property and can contractually never be sold again.
Farming and nature don't have to be at odds. Lenteland shows how it can be different.
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Through Terry, your purchase at a participating store generates a donation to Lenteland from that store's marketing budget. You pay nothing extra.
Where your contribution goes:
Supporting farmers with the startup of their regenerative farm
Design and development of agroforestry systems, CSA gardens and herb-rich grasslands
Development of the legal and financial cooperative model
Education, community-building and programs on the farms
Making regenerative agriculture visible as a credible systemic alternative
Imagine thousands of Terry users shopping at participating stores each year. Those purchases together generate a continuous stream of donations, without anyone spending a cent more. Every contribution helps launch the next farm, bring in the next farmer, or plant a new agroforestry system.
The land purchased with the help of your support will be permanently removed from the speculative domain. Not just for you, but for the generations that follow.
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At Erve Kiekebos, in the area between the Veluwe and the IJssel, farmers Niels and Jaap launched the first Lenteland farm. There's a market garden, a pick-your-own orchard, an agroforestry system in development and magical field dinners. A place that barely existed a few years ago now draws visitors from far and wide.
At 't Sierveld in the Limburg village of Mechelen, vegetable share subscriptions are running at full capacity with a waiting list for new members. At 't Gagel in Lochem, the largest Lenteland farm to date at 45 hectares, chickens roam through herb-rich grasslands while the agroforestry system expands year by year.
From Brabant to Belgium, from Enschede to Tilburg: places are growing where farmers with enormous drive for a better world are at work. Not with rent and debt, but as co-owners of their land and business, surrounded by a community that wants to be part of building something new.
Lenteland collaborates with other initiatives including Herenboeren, BD Grondbeheer and Land van Ons. Not as competitors, but as allies in the same transition.
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Your support through Terry does more than just the direct donation:
Every Lenteland farm attracts a community of consumers, investors and volunteers who themselves contribute to the transition
Regenerative agriculture at scale reduces pressure on biodiversity, water quality and climate across the wider region
Every farm that becomes cooperative property permanently removes land from the speculative market
More farms mean more visible, visitable places that demonstrate a different way is possible
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Stichting Lenteland is a non-profit foundation established on 1 March 2021 by Wouter Veer. The foundation holds ANBI status (Public Benefit Organisation), recognised by the Dutch tax authority. Chamber of Commerce number: 82038910.
Where the donation goes:
Supporting farms and farmers in the startup and development phase
Operational costs of the foundation: staff, advisory and communications
Lenteland publishes an annual financial and narrative accountability report on its website
Board members receive no remuneration. The board consists of Derk Loorbach (chair), Wouter Veer (treasurer) and Dorien Goris (secretary).
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Support Lenteland with every purchase
Shop as usual and let your purchase contribute to regenerative agriculture, healthy soils and a food system that strengthens nature rather than harming it.
