In addition to the rare crested newt, Luuk Croijmans and colleagues recently found the brush-thighed seed-eatercreeper, or Harpalus Froelichii, at two locations in our network.

We are expanding our monitoring: in collaboration with consortium partner RAVON, we have started a pilot to monitor amphibians. This is because amphibian populations in the agricultural area are not doing well...

More plant-eating insects AND higher yields, it sounds too good to be true. Research by Luuk Croijmans of Wageningen University & Research shows that on cabbages in crop-diverse cultivation systems (which include...

On 28 March, CropMix was a guest at De Moestuinbeurs! On the beautiful and sunny Middachten estate, Erik H. Poelman and Yvonne Florissen gave a lecture on how, with CropMix, we try to build a bridge between vegetable gardeners and farmers.

On 13 March, the Royal Dutch Plant Protection Association and Willie Commelin Scholten foundation organised the Crop Protection Event: Crop protection in a changing world.

From 2 to 7 February 2025, we organised a winter school for (our) PhDs: a one week course that was all about transdisciplinary research in the context of the transition to more ecology-based agriculture.