Lekker Leven Land, Schijndel
About the project
Lekker Leven Land is an old farm land to be restored and transformed into a food forest to enhance biodiversity and create a community place with environmental awareness building and educational vocations. The landowners are passionate self-taught tree lovers who quit their tech life to commit to regenerative agroecology and agroforestry commitments. Furthermore, this ongoing work is key to enhancing biodiversity, stabilising soils, and improving the water cycle in a region that saw intensive agriculture deplete the soils for years.
Objective
Turn a degraded and exhausted 1 Hectare degraded agricultural land into a productive and community food forest with native, biodiverse, productive, and climate-resilient species. Green infrastructure is aimed to complement the food forest, such as a goat-proof hedge, to further enhance to fauna biodiversity on top of the flora.
Impact
By supporting this project, you will help restore degraded land with productive forest cover, enhancing ecosystem services in the area. It will improve soil quality, boost water infiltration and biodiversity, store carbon for decades, and increase landscape value. At the same time, it will support an agroecological system that generates long-term revenue for landowners, strengthening local capacity and resilience. This projects also contributes to environmental education opportunities through community and school involvement.
Supporting this project means supporting the following SDGs:
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