Onze Ruimte
- Type
- Farm / Primary Producer
- Location
- Schelluinen, Netherlands
- Industries
- Livestock farming, Arable farming
About Onze Ruimte
Onze Ruimte is a Dutch dairy farm and demonstration location in the Alblasserwaard region, run by Xander and Marjolein together with their family. The business combines milk production with learning, hosting, and landscape-based experimentation, and presents itself as a place where food production, health, leadership, and nature come together.
The company serves a broad mix of audiences: farmers and food-system stakeholders, researchers, students, businesses, teams, and event organizers. It positions itself as a practical and inspirational setting for working with change, sharing knowledge, and exploring more sustainable ways of producing food and using land.
Core Values
- Sustainability: The company emphasizes low-impact food production, regenerative practices, biodiversity, and multifunctional land use.
- Knowledge and learning: Sharing experience, staying open to new insights, and connecting local and international perspectives are central to how the business works.
- Connection with nature: The farm uses its landscape as an active part of the business, linking agriculture, wellbeing, and personal development.
- Collaboration: Onze Ruimte repeatedly highlights working with partners, stakeholders, and different organizations to create shared value.
- Future orientation: The business frames itself around adaptation, resilience, and preparing for the future of farming and food production.
Unique Aspects
- Demonstration farm with a broader mission: Onze Ruimte is not only a dairy farm but also a demonstration and inspiration site for change in agriculture and society.
- Part of the Poldercampus network: The location is described as a satellite of the Poldercampus, connecting it to a regional learning and innovation ecosystem.
- On-site collaboration with Eye For Nature: The farm works with Eye For Nature on the School of Sustainable Food and Farming, strengthening its educational role.
- Multifunctional landscape design: The land is managed for multiple purposes at once, including grazing, biodiversity, bird habitat, wind protection, and food production.
- Certified milk stream: Milk is supplied via the Planet Proof milk stream, linking the farm to a recognized sustainability standard.