De Oude Ijsselstreek

 

De Oude Ijsselstreek

This little video was shot in our area and the commentary is in Dutch.

De Oude Ijsselstreek is our area within the province of Gelderland that is known as the 'Achterhoek' or 'back corner ' of the Netherlands. It lies along the 'Old Ijssel' river that flows from Germany.

It is mainly rural, agricultural, dairy, chicken and pig and horse farms.  There are very few golf courses in Nl, but the fields all look like a green carpet.  Quite a few old castles in the area.  The local crops are hay, corn, potatoes and grains. 

 The farmers are busy from dawn to after dusk tending their small fields. The main traffic past our place is tractors and agricultural equipment.

The area is being promoted as a quiet nature getaway area from the large cities in the west of NL,  Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, etc and there are beautiful well maintained rural cycle paths and weekend events that attract visitors

Light industry is concentrated in industrial areas adjoining each town.

At the end of the clip is a shot of Varsseveld, the motocross track and the Radstake. All close by.  The Radstake is an old inn that dates back hundreds of years and lies along the trade route with Europe.

It is now a restaurant and event centre for the many horse events that are held annually.

https://www.gelderlander.nl/over-de-tong/restaurant-de-radstake-pieken-en-dalen-in-een-echte-herberg~a8041db1/74837778/  (We have been there twice)

Titbits :-  from the department of information

The yellow crop above is probably 'Koolzaad' which produces a seed that is pressed into oil and sold as Canola oil.

 It was originally called 'rapeseed' but, Canada modified it and marketed it as Canola oil.

Both canola and rapeseed belong to the cabbage or mustard family. The plants’ flowers both have that characteristic bright yellow color, and you get oil from both of the seeds by crushing the plants.

That said, they have a couple key genetic differences. Canola was created through plant-breeding in order to get rid of two undesirable components of rapeseed. Rapeseed oil and canola oil also get mixed up because they can be labeled incorrectly outside of Canada and the United States.

What’s the Difference Between Canola and Rapeseed Oils?

In the 1970s canola was created through traditional plant cross-breeding by removing two things found in the rapeseed plant: glucosinolates and erucic acid. Erucic acid was removed because it was believed to be inedible or toxic in high doses. The newly developed plant was renamed “canola,” a combination of “Canadian” and “oil” (or ola) to make this difference apparent.

By definition, if a seed is labeled “canola” it has to have less than 30 micromoles of glucosinolates and less than 2% of erucic acid.

So, now you know