Boerderij Eetmeerbosch

Boerderij Eetmeerbosch is a self-harvest farm (zelfoogstboerderij) on the Scherpenkampweg in Nijmegen-West, where two farmers grow more than 120 kinds of vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers on 1.5 hectares beside a food forest of almost three hectares, for its harvest members (oogstgenoten).

From April to December members harvest unsprayed vegetables and herbs, around twenty kinds a week, and from July a weekly bunch of cut flowers. The farm's fifty hens are outdoors all year and their eggs go out through an egg subscription (ei-abonnement); whether the food forest's fruit and nuts also reach members is not stated. The farm holds no organic certificate, which their website puts down to the cost for a farm of its scale; what qualifies it here is the practice itself: no artificial fertiliser or pesticides, soil fed only with green compost and the hens' manure, and organic seed.

Joining means buying a harvest subscription (oogstabonnement) for the season through their webshop, priced per person on a solidarity scale set by income. New members start with a tour and harvest instructions, then come any day from sunrise to sunset and take what they need on trust; a six-week trial exists. All places for 2026 are taken and the 2027 waiting list is open; non-members can visit by appointment.

In 2025 soil and groundwater were tested for PFAS and heavy metals, and according to their website the laboratory found neither.