Land of farmers and fishermen
Waddenland is a region of makers. Of people who go through all weathers to get the tastiest products on your plate. From free-range meat and fresh vegetables from Uithuizermeeden to shrimps from the Wadden Sea. Grown in the region, it all tastes just that little bit better. Get to know the land of farmers and fishermen.
Meet the makers
Waddenland farmers and fishermen are proud of their produce. Milk, spelt, potatoes, shrimps or eels: they love honest food straight from the Groningen land as well as from the sea. Take a look in the cowshed, enter an old orchard to pick your own apples, stap aboard a shrimp cutter and see how people work in the eel smokehouse. Meet the makers and discover where your food comes from.
Fresher than fresh
Eemstuin
Uithuizermeeden - Close to the Wadden Sea is the Eemstuin, where pure vegetables grow. Farmers bring these to homes in and around Groningen. The vegetable parcels are pre-packaged with ultra-fresh, often forgotten vegetables. Because everything comes from their own garden, you eat with the seasons. That invites you to experiment with vegetables.
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Eel smokehouse Gaele Postma
Zoutkamp - Zoutkamp used to have a large fishing port, but when the Lauwerszee was closed off, it lost this important position. The village still has the look and feel of an old-fashioned fishing village and you can still come here for fish as well. For years, you can get the tastiest fresh fish at eel smokehouse Gaele Postma in the harbour. The way it used to taste.
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Waddenvarkens
Uithuizermeeden - Old-fashioned delicious free-range meat, as they call it themselves. Because at Waddenvarkens, the pigs get all the space they need to move freely, rooting and lazing around in a mud pool. Without stress and at their own pace. Even the food they get just comes from the neighbourhood. The cattle and 'mumps chickens' that roam the farm also have a good life. Nice and free. Taste for yourself!
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Regional markets
Various locations - Cosy local markets are also regularly organised where you can go for local products. Almost every week you can find fresh, local products at one of these markets. Be surprised by all the goodies the region has to offer, and try your hand at local delicacies at the smaller markets.
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Country gold
Kloosterburen - On Groningen's Wadden coast, Hero Havenga de Poel's family farm grows crops organically. On this gourmet land, Landgoud cultivates spelt, mustard seed, hops and white currant, among others. With the latter, they make unique wine from Groningen soil: Blanka. A delicious wine to accompany a sumptuous meal.
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