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During a farm holiday in Holland you will experience the country and its people up close. It is hardly possible more authentically than on a farm holiday in Holland. There are many ways in which you can experience this. It is easiest if you spend your vacation directly on the farm.
When you spend your farm holiday in Holland on the farm, you experience country life authentically and unadulterated. But there are other ways you can design a farm holiday in Holland.
What do you think of visiting a sheep farm in spring? Then there will be the lambs born. There are farms on Texel that show visitors around their barns and what is important about sheep farming. Holidays on the farm are not only fun for families with children.
A farm holiday in Holland gives you a look behind the scenes. We visited a cheese producer at Volendam who showed us how he makes his cheese. A tasting is of course included.
Adventure farms offer another form of farm holiday in Holland. We visited one of these in Texel. There you can spend days on a farm holiday in Holland without getting bored. You can learn how to bake your own bread. Have you ever made soap yourself? There are courses there for that. Or you can get ideas for growing vegetables at home in the vegetable garden.
Not far from Deventer can children on the farm Koe in the diet* get to know life on the farm.
During a farm holiday in Holland you can also visit farmers on Texel who will show you how they breed their cattle using modern methods. Fresh air from the sea and a lot of freedom of movement included.
Then there are the tulips! When these bloom from March to May, the whole of Holland is a sea of flowers. Reason enough to visit one of the tulip farms on your farm holiday in Holland.
In these Texel restaurant tips we present restaurants, specialties and experiences with which you can explore the culinary delights of the island of Texel. These experiences for foodies are exciting and make the island vacation a stay for connoisseurs.
See tulips in Holland when they are in bloom at Keukenhof. The time of the tulip bloom in spring is one of the most beautiful travel times in Holland. It blooms in the region west and north of Amsterdam between late March and mid-May. Tulips in all shapes and colors.
If you travel to the Dutch North Sea island of Texel in spring, you can cuddle Texel sheep on the island. As soon as spring arrives, lambs are born on the island's sheep farms.
Texel is Holland in miniature. There is almost nothing to get from the mainland. Instead, the farmers from Texel deliver their products to the mainland. Sheep from Texel are world famous and are even valued in Australia.
Experience a holiday in North Holland with cheese, clumps and windmills. In the villages of Edam, Volendam and Monnikendam you will find the Netherlands as you imagine. If you want to learn more about the country and the life of its people in the past, we recommend the Zuiderseemuseum.
