Boer Fernand feels abandoned by the municipality after years of nature management: ‘land to the highest bidder’

Fernand de Willigen has been leasing 36 hectares around his farm that is more than two hundred years old for eleven years. But last Thursday he was told that the land is going to the highest bidder. That means that he has to put his cows away and no longer be a farmer. “It is a sad end of a promising initiative.”

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