A walk in the park: the farmers that live there

The Ledeboerpark in my home town is an unusual kind of park; it's basically a large area of old landscape they put a fence around. People actually have houses in the park, and there are some active old-school farmers using small patches of cultivated land amidst the woods.

The park houses old farm buildings like this centuries-old Dutch barn (we Dutch don't call it that 8-) with some old farming machinery:

Olympus Stylus 1s, 28mm, ISO1600, f4, 1/30

Many farmers were also beekeepers. This honey press is over 200 years old:

Olympus Stylus 1s, 50mm, ISO1600, f4, 1/25

You can also find the traditional winter crops the farmers grow for their families rather than for the market, like different kinds of cabbage (did they really plant this sorted by colour?):

Olympus Stylus 1s, 100mm, ISO200, f4, 1/80

One of the crops is the old favourite kale, looking very fractal-ish:

Olympus Stylus 1s, 45mm, ISO100, f4, 1/100

When I use the same effect on the photo of the kale as I used here and here it hardly changes, which is interesting. But I digress.

Every farm also has some fruit trees. The apples look very good this year:

Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO1600, f4, 1/250

These are mediars, available in winter also and usually eaten after a natural fermentation process called bletting, as they are uneatable fresh:

Olympus Stylus 1s, 85mm, ISO200, f4, 1/80

There is even some livestock in the park, like this inquisitive cow of unknown make and model, not a typically Dutch one (Dutch cows are usually blue or red roan, and they have more modern hairdos than this one):

Olympus Stylus 1s, 65mm, ISO400, f2.8, 1/125

All in all, this park gives an impression of what the countryside here was like a hundred years ago. No farms in the park are for sale at the moment, unfortunately.