A glimmer of hope that the Netherlands will not finally perish from animal shit
Anyone who, after recruitments abroad, could finally settle in the Netherlands again, could visit the NPO for two uninterrupted hours on Saturday. During prime time there is a lot of digging in the clay, hunting for insects and aquatic animals, and lurking for pigs and badgers. The interaction of homo sapiens with this polder land also receives a lot of attention.
What it means, all those programs – Our farm: and now itself, Early birds and Along the coast – with an eye for the Dutch home? No idea, on behalf of the fact that all three offer a glimmer of hope that the Netherlands is not yet definitively perishing from animal shit.
Farmer seeks wifeicon Yvon Jaspers, a former former image of the large animal feed industry ForFarmers, in Our farm on a piece of land with three pigs, chicks in the shell (they will hatch next week) and unsprayed vegetable cultivation to recapture the lost paradise of biological small-scale.
After enjoying the boom of factory farming knowledge for two decades, she marvels at the wonders on her plot with childlike enthusiasm. Meewar watched and known by traditional farmers who monoculture and real hectares as their reality, Jaspers toils through the clay, Jaspers toils through the clay, toils called ‘squeakers’), talk to the pigs, very hard ground, rock-clean, rock-heavy . The toddler listening tone should entice the viewer to follow Jaspers on her quest, but I don’t feel at home in her played naive universe.
How calm is the tone of Early birds-presenter Menno Bentveld, who saw delighted traces of mice on the slopes of the Limburg Brunssummerheide? A notion that the accompanying ranger cruelly ignored. Recently, Bentveld saw one that strange, yet soberingly ordinary. Where mining once dumped sand and lignite, nature is now thriving: sundew, lizard, locust, incredible flora. Goats and sheep maintain the natural balance while grazing. The grazers in turn must be protected by humans against the rampant, poisonous foxglove. Volunteers remove that manually: one hoped that the vulnerable nature could one day be able to handle it on its own.
Huub Stapel completed his five-part report series Along the coast off in Groningen. The title betrays the content: he followed the coastline, fishing for stories that unfold at high and low tide and behind the dikes. No surprising television, about the Groningen grain, the oysters of the mudflats – the melancholic singing of Ede Staal was not lacking. Stapel freed the program from an overdose with hypothermic humor From region to region. Sailing on a speedboat across the Ems, a manager sets out on advertising courses for queens: Emma, Wilhelmina, Juliana, Betrix. Stapel: ‘What a treat!’
The manager refers to the Eemshaven with its windmill industry as ‘the socket of the Netherlands’. Regional promotion of the purest water: I was grounded again.