From the ground to the mouth.

A tasting!
This tour is only free in the public area of the Midzeelhoeves.
Curious about the continuation of the tour in the museum gardens and museum barns?
Get your receipt at the reception desk during opening hours.

What you didn't know.
The Vegetable Region, for 150 years the cradle of pioneers and innovations in vegetable growing.
Fed by the two Neten, Dijle, Demer and Rupel, this region has always proved to be fertile ground.
This river land with its clay and loam soils is and was ideal for horticulture.
And with the proximity of large cities such as Antwerp, Mechelen and Brussels, quick sales were assured.

How come?
Farmer Achiel and Abbis Agnes take you through centuries of horticulture and market gardening.
Along historical farms and peasant superstition, over the imperial gardens of Charlemagne and Louis the Fourteenth, to the pioneers of the Mechelen vegetable growing region.

📏 1km
🕑 1:30am
📍 't Grom
🏁 't Grom