4 October 2025, 13:30–17:00 / Meeting point: Vleuten station
Snacks are provided. Participants should bring water, waterproof clothing, and a bicycle. RSVP at info@casco.art.
We move outdoors for an excursion, partly led by Laura van Rossum, a water management expert who co-runs the small-scale farm Boer Peter with her husband. The farm appeared in our Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills project with the Outsiders–whose member Asia Komarova also joins for the day.
Participants are invited to follow paths where waterworks, agriculture, and human settlements have shaped and transformed the land over time, with a focus on the polder, told and guided by Laura’s expertise. As the route crosses fields, we encounter birds moving through the area, and different species of plants that maintain this artificially created ecosystem. Along the way, we discuss forms of living that have been lost, sustained, or revitalized (such as Voedselbos Haarzuilens, which we visit).
Asia brings Trusting the Water, an interactive installation by the Travelling Farm Museum collective that filters and questions the assumed purity of Dutch waters. We will test it interactively in waters surrounding Haarzuilens. Visitors are invited to engage directly with the natural environment, reconsidering their relationship with local water sources and the trust placed in them, along with the stories it carries.
We end the day stopping by the goat farm, Geertje’s Hoeve.
