📖 Journal
This is where we share what happens on the homestead: the good, the bad, the funny, the useful, and the things that didn't go according to plan. We don't want polished marketing. We want honest stories.
Goats, food, garden, music, and the everyday work of building a homestead.
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In Europe and the United States, mangoes are usually sold ripe, soft, and sweet. In the Philippines, green mangoes are a food in their own right—crisp, sour, and eaten with salt, vinegar, fresh chili, or bagoong.
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At De Klomp Homestead we turned fresh Napier grass into goat silage in a 47-liter drum, packing it layer by layer and compacting each layer by foot.
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Our second homestead album is here: Jenalyn Sings — fourteen Tagalog songs about family, love, challenges, hope, and everyday life at De Klomp.
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Music motivates our work, softens our rest, and shapes the energy of daily life at De Klomp — and it led us to release our first album from the homestead.
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We dry-cure pork for seven days, smoke it for eight hours over a carefully selected woodchip blend, then vacuum-pack and freeze our homemade bacon.
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We harvested the first dragon fruit grown on our land at De Klomp Santander. A small but meaningful milestone in building our productive Cebu homestead.
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We are growing a feeding forest in Santander, Cebu, to provide our goats with fresh, local and renewable fodder from our own land.
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We made fresh Labne from our own goat milk at De Klomp Homestead, served with parsley and garlic as part of our journey into homemade dairy.
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Our homemade bread goes stale after two days because it is baked for flavor and nourishment, not engineered for an unnaturally long shelf life.
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De Klomp is a home first, not a conventional farm business. We grow food, build practical skills, reduce dependence, and sell only when surplus makes sense.
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We found Indigofera growing at De Klomp and began exploring how this high-protein tropical forage could support our goats and feeding forest.
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A 200-year-old Groningen family recipe brought to Cebu: homemade liverwurst, traditional food skills, and a taste of Dutch family history.
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