Bas de Groot

Bas de Groot is a teacher at the Warmonderhof, a university for Biodynamic Agriculture. Here he is a project leader on the innovation program Urban Agriculture, and Coordinator on Farming For Health (horticultural therapy). Besides that, he worked more than 12 years as horticultural therapist/ manager for different agricultural companies/ foundations (dairy-farm, vegetable farm, flower and ornamental growers and natural environment).  He also had a Farming education at the Warmonderhof.

Bas, together with Johan Bosman, started a foundation to start urban farming activities (producing, processing and selling) in the big cities of the Netherlands. The locations that they started with are abanded factory buildings and locations that are close to the living areas to let people get involved and make a green statement in the red/gray city.