NETHERLANDS
Along the canals and between the beds
After many successive years of HLP excursions to often far-flung destinations, the chosen country this year was the Netherlands.
The trip kicked off in Amsterdam. By Bert Rademakers, CNC Exotic Mushrooms
Mieke de Vries in her market stall at the Noordermarkt in Amsterdam. O 34 MUSHROOM BUSINESS
n Saturday 30 May, the group gath- ered at a hotel in our capital for the more leisure-oriented part of the programme. One of our stops was
the Noordermarkt, where every Saturday Mieke de Vries has a market stall that provides the whole of Amsterdam with the most delicious mushrooms. In restaurant ‘D’Vijf Vlieghen’ the latest European developments and news were exchanged at dinner on Saturday evening. On Sunday morning, we embarked on a tradi- tional boat tour of the canals and afterwards in the afternoon we were expected at Mediamatic, a collective of artists and scientists who carry out all kinds of sustainable projects. Willem Velthoven and Peter Oei, who are the driving
forces behind the mushroom projects, wel- comed us. They showed us how a combination of beer brewing and mushroom cultivation on brewer’s grains can create a sustainable system. The first aspect was particularly appealing, and the second was an incidental benefit. We also saw a cradle-to-cradle system used to breed catfish and re-use the water and heat.
Mushrooms and shiitake In Kerkdriel , the group visited the farm run by Arjan and Astrid Stello. They grow chestnut mushrooms on two sites, and market the mushrooms through their own company AK Champignons BV. On one site with six growing rooms of 200 m2, all the chestnut mushrooms
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