Julia Crijnen

Born in the Netherlands, made her first steps in vegetable growing on her small balcony, like so many kids from the city. She studied anthropology in Amsterdam before doing a master's in Food & Sustainability in Italy. Now she makes sure that our boxes have something new and exciting to offer every week. Apart from being a Stadsgroenteboerin, she runs a small catering business together with Milo, using seasonal and local ingredients. She often surprises us with her creative projects such as the various syrups that we had never tasted before and her sewing skills are indispensable, also at the farm.

Andres Jara

Born in Colombia, trained as a chef in Peru, had his own catering company in Colombia, studied gastronomic sciences in Italy, mastered the technique of Italian butchery in Tuscany. With his enthusiasm and networking skills, he ensures that word gets around fast. He is an expert at finding locally available resources, like woodchips, mushroom compost, or bathtubs! Thanks to him we have integrated kitchen and animal wastes from the surroundings into our compost system. He likes to use the farm’s produce for events and workshops. They have also inspired the delicious products that he makes now professionally at his second company Jara.

Laura Wüthrich

Born in Switzerland, brings a refreshing no-nonsense attitude to the workplace. This woman of many talents has a passion for fermentation and is an organisational mastermind. She gained experience in farming in different contexts, from Indian tropical permaculture to Swiss alpine pasture. She makes sure we keep on track with our plantings and that our operation runs smoothly. She has introduced compost tea to the farm that we have been experimenting with ever since. When it comes to keeping our small flock of chickens, she is our expert. When not working in the vegetable garden, she bakes sourdough bread, tries to follow the steps on the Lindy Hop dance floor or performs dazzling acrobatics.

Lisa Fellmann

Originally from Switzerland and discovered her passion for farming when volunteering on organic farms in New Zealand when she was 19. She got her master’s degree in agroecology at the University of Wageningen and ever since wants to find out how science can best meet practice. At the beginning of the season, she makes sure that the CSA subscriptions run smoothly. At the farm, she is always looking for ways to make a task easier, more efficient and less hard on the back. 

Isabelle Dobbe

Her unconventional journey went from a study in anthropology to a few years of working on policy for secondary vocational education to farming. In 2021 she exchanged her desk job for school benches and started at the Warmonderhof school to learn everything there is about biodynamic agriculture. We were lucky that she decided to do her internship with us. She quickly became an indispensable part of the team and joined the farmers crew in 2022. She is not only gifted when it comes to growing veggies but she is also a good writer and often writes our weekly newsletter.

Pauline Zeidler

Her research about consumer and farmers' attitudes towards imperfect vegetables during her psychology masters brought her to the Stadsgroenteboer in 2022. After interning with us for one season we decided we couldn't let her go and offered her a spot on the team. Luckily she accepted! You will always find a little sprinkle of soil on her face because she is working so hard in the garden. And if she has started broadforking a vegetable bed she is hard to stop.