On Thursday , September 28 , at 6 a.m. , the Tuinbouw Jongeren Oostland group pose off on their annual field trip . Sixteen untested multitude - entrepreneurs , employees , or Dutch horticultural sector students - headed to Germany with a few stop along the means in Southeast Netherlands .
Previous trips were further abroad to Spain , England , Portugal , Poland , and Italy . Though a little closer to home , this twelvemonth ’s trip was no less telling . The youngsters are back , and here is what they had to say about their stumble .
Grodan Rockwool plantFirst stop : the Grodan Rockwool plant in the Dutch metropolis of Roermond , where rockwool plugs , blocks , and matte are produced . During the sojourn , there was metre for a content presentation and a go of one of the production lines in the factory . The introduction explain the basic fabric needed to grow rock fleece , their requirements for the intersection , and the recycling process . One of the challenges is to bring down charge card use . That is being actively research to recover the best possible alternative .
During the tour , the grouping was introduced to various companies within Rockwool . It also became unclouded that there is a difference between rockwool for insulation and that for nursery vegetable . The latter absorbs moisture , while the insulation cloth is H2O - repellant .
The group got to see the impressive process of how liquefied basalt is spun into rockwool and formed into a large mat . That is sawn into a finished production . The sojourn concluded with Grodan ’s trends and developments , focusing on strawberry mark cultivation , the GroSens , and the e - Gro chopine .
Jacobs mushroom-shaped cloud farmAbout 30 minute from the Rockwool plant dwell the Jacobs family mushroom farm in Kessel . There , about 345,000 kg are glean on a cultivation country of around 3.5 hour angle per week . Bart Jacobs and his Father of the Church , John , welcome the group . While savor a Limburg flan - a local delicacy - the group heard a presentation about the nursery .
All the mushrooms are grown for the canning industriousness , and these mushrooms eventually go all over the humankind . It also became unclouded how full of life mushrooms ' spring up medium is , admit mycelium spore graft and the importance of spreading casing territory ( peat ) over the bed .
During the tour , the mathematical group was instill by the high level of automation and exact cultivation control within the inclose growing cellphone . After each pick up a jarful of mushrooms to take home , the radical left for their third and final company of the day .
Mushrooms at the Jacobs farm .
Raijlof nurseryOnce the group arrived at the Raijlof baby’s room just across the Noord - Brabant provincial moulding , it was time to learn more about clean and blood-red chicory refinement . This begins with the raiser spread chicory pens from seeds . These are harvested and salt away in freezers to rest the plants . After a minimal freezing time , the pens are slowly thaw , placed in growing tray , and put in dark growing cells . The mature foliage is picked and packaged on - site in the processing mansion .
It was interesting to see how much this chicory and the mushroom cloud farm have in common with greenhouse horticulture . The tour at Raijlof ended with reliable Brabant sausage balloon rolls and a few drinks .
EmsflowerAfter a successful first 24-hour interval , the chemical group visited two more companies on Friday , September 29 . In the morning , they run to Emsflower in Emsbüren , Germany . This bedding works nursery spans some 83 hectare divided between the Netherlands and Germany .
Emsflower is more than just that , though , as owner Tom Kuipers prove when he show the group around . After see the restaurant , ' adventure garden ' ( with meerkats , rascal , and a crocodile ) , and the show greenhouse where various flowers and vegetable crop are being grown , the chemical group was go to an on - site ' hotel ' . With 150 rooms , Emsflower fully assure housing for its seasonal workers .
The nursery presently gas fairy , primrose , potted chrysanthemum , and poinsettias . The farm also originate Lycopersicon esculentum for the local securities industry on another 15 hectare — a unique combining . Several commercial enterprise processes are fully automatise , and they utilise a private app with entropy about all personnel , order , cultivation , and energy . At the death of the spell , the group got to see the biomass power plant . It runs entirely on prune regional waste and provide the nursery with high temperature and electricity .
Emsflower .
Klasmann - DeilmannFriday good afternoon was dedicate to potting grime supplier Klasmann - Deilmann . After a presentment on the company ’s history and programme , the radical see the production process in activeness .
At the Geeste web site , alternative raw materials and new products like hemangioma simplex and glasshouse vegetable grow bag are processed and produced . The visitors gained insight into the woods fiber processing and coconut fiber cube conversion processes . These are eventually used in potting soil as a peat reserve . They saw another alternative at a Joint Venture of Klasmann - Deilmann and Olde - Bolhaar compost plant life . At that fix , pruning waste matter is transformed into light-green compost that Klasmann - Deilmann add to its substrate .
Visiting Klasmann - Deilmann .
Anthura ArndtOn Saturday dawn , September 30 , Fred Kruisselbrink heartily welcome the chemical group to Znthura Arndt . He has managed this Anthura site in Germany for 27 years . At this 11 - hectare location , Phalaenopsis startle material is develop .
The cutting come from Anthura ’s tissue culture laboratories in Northern Macedonia and China , where they are propagated and grown . At the forward-looking nursery - with an reflex cultivation system , three screenland textile , misting , and lighting - this company grows a quality product that accurately reflects its picture . Anthura is also further developing and optimizing its polish . For model , it uses self - developed tray with irrigation technology and is switching to 100 % LED lighting .
The sojourn to Anthura .
MertensLast stop : Mertens in Horst , Germany , on the good afternoon of Sunday , October 1 . After a inadequate company presentation and a tasty lunch , Thea Muysers leave the mathematical group on a duty tour through the company . That gave them a safe impression of Mertens and what that supplier can do for grower .
Tour organiser Hannah Zwinkels , Mark van der Arend , Mike Zuidgeest , and Leon van Mil can contemplate on a very successful misstep . They want to , once again , give thanks the companies for their cordial reception , open up their occupation , and skilful attention . They also desire to thank Bazuin Komkommers and People Direkt for providing transportation .
On to the preparation for next class ’s trip . Any ideas of where the group should go ? Please countenance them know at[email protected ] .
Source : Tuinbouw jongeren Oostland
