Care Farm Beversoord

Who's behind it

Care Farm Beversoord sits in the polders near Strijensas, in the Hoeksche Waard. Hans and Sity Makkenzie run the farm together with supervisors from Humanitas DMH. Around twenty clients, ranging from their early twenties to well into their sixties, work in the fields and greenhouses. Supervisor Hanna Mesker divides the work according to what each person can do: one sows and harvests, another drives the tractor, another works in the greenhouse or weighs the harvest. Everything is grown organically and certified Demeter and EKO. Beversoord has worked with organic Farm Landzicht for years and maintains the landscape with Hoekschewaards Landschap. In 2024 the farm received the HWL Ereprijs for its work on nature, community and sustainable food production.

What grows here

Beversoord grows roughly sixteen crops year-round: three types of beetroot, parsnip, pumpkin, beans, onions, cucumber, tomato, corn and potato, plus okra, tomatillo and yellow pepper. Here you get tomatillo and okra fresh and grown close by. The walnut oil comes from the farm's own orchard: every nut is knocked from the tree by hand, shelled and then pressed drop by drop. The work is set up around the people who do it, so a lot happens by hand. For you that means short rows, plenty of variety and vegetables often harvested the same week.

In your kitchen

Put the name on the menu. Vegetables from an organic care farm in the Hoeksche Waard are an origin your guest understands right away. Use the variety: the three beetroot varieties side by side, tomatillo as the acid in a salsa verde, okra as a seasonal dish. Build your dishes around what comes off the field that week and your menu moves with the harvest. Use the walnut oil to finish a plate, and you can trace it back to one orchard and one press in Strijensas.