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Who we are
About the farm
We are a family dairy farm on the edge of Wassenaar, between Leiden and The Hague, close to the Valkenburg lake; the farm was built up by the Nell family and is now run by the next generation (Hogendoorn-Nell). We keep 85 black-and-white dairy cows, 50 calves and heifers, 25 breeding ewes and a few hobby animals, and our cows graze day and night from April to October. In the farm's own cheese dairy we make farmhouse cheese and dairy products from our raw milk (Best Farmhouse Cheese of the Netherlands, 2022) and sell them in our farm shop. We are a visitor farm: during opening hours you can explore the farmyard on the 'Klompenpad' trail.
Snapshots
Image rights: Boerderij Nellesteijn
What we raise
Livestock
Here we list the animals we keep, with breed and headcount. Open a row and we show you what we process from them (milk, meat, eggs, honey…) and which of our products we sell.
Cattle (135 head) – Holstein Friesian (135 head)
- Beef
- Beef
- Cheese
- Semi-hard cheese · raw milk
- Ripened cheese · raw milk
- Hard, long-aged cheese · raw milk
- Semi-hard cheese · raw milk, portion / mini
- Semi-hard cheese · raw milk, herbed / spiced, flavoured, hot / spicy
- Semi-hard cheese „Boerenleidse” · herbed / spiced
- Cream cheese, spread
- Milk
- Milk
- Yoghurt, kefir, curd, butter, cream
- Butter
- Buttermilk
- Yoghurt
- Yoghurt, kefir, curd, butter, cream
- Pudding, rice pudding
- Beef
- Donkeys
- Goats – Pygmy goat
- Horses
- Rabbits
- Sheep (25 head) – Cameroon sheep (25 head)
More of our products
- Cheese
- Semi-hard cheese
- Ripened cheese
- Hard, long-aged cheese
- Cream cheese, spread
- Yoghurt, kefir, curd, butter, cream
- Butter
- Buttermilk
- Yoghurt
Processing & crafts
Dairy processing / cheesemaking
Sales channel
- Farm-gate sales
Product categories
Product groups
Farming method / certification
Community farming
Languages spoken
DutchData source
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