Lunteren lies next to the famous Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Here stands a dairy farm almost 375 years old, owned by the van der Voort family and now run by Jan Dirk van der Voort. The whole farm looks like an old painting.
Forty-year-old grass
Most of the 70-hectare farm is green grassland. Jan says the grass is 40 years old, and this fresh grass is the cows' only food in summer. The wide green pasture is the daily home of 90 cows. The grass is full of nutrients, and Jan showed the natural work of fertility and life going on beneath the green carpet.
All milk becomes cheese
All the milk from the cows is used to make cheese. A special two-storey building on the farm stores it. Matured for one to one and a half years, the cheese is unmatched in taste and aroma and sells for four times the price of other cheeses on the market.
Jan says the high price is not only for taste and purity but for heritage and prestige.
Source: Shykh Seraj, Hridoye Mati O Manush. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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