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At Bokrijk the Past Inspires the Present
8 July 2022
If you want to see and experience how things used to be in the Flemish countryside, you will find plenty to do at Bokrijk Open-Air Museum. But the museum, located in a large park in the Belgian province of Limburg, is not stuck in the past. The clogs and rustic farmhouses are meant to make us think
Between Muck Heap and Tractor: The Shifting Image of Farmers
17 January 2022
The image of farmers and the countryside has been teetering between positive and negative for decades – some consider them authentic, while others find them to be conservative. What’s the reason behind this constant swinging of opinion? And how much wiggle room do farmers have today?
Only After 1850 Houseplants Started Creeping Slowly Into Our Bourgeois Houses
8 December 2021
Today, it is completely normal to have plants in the house, but it’s not such a long-standing habit as we might think: it was only in the nineteenth century that greenery started creeping into the house. Additionally, this evolution was quite paradoxical: urban against rural, culture against natur
When Farming Had to Become Big Business
22 June 2021
Dozens injured and even one death: that’s how serious the mass farmers’ demonstration was against European policy reform in Brussels on 23 March 1971. This event not only marked the endpoint of a time when agriculture was still small-scale and mixed, it also signified the transition to productio