History of the Eagles Ranch / de Arend farm

This is the old Arend at the Ruigendijk in the natural region Waal en Burg.

 

This farm must have been there for centuries, thus being one of the oldest farms on the isle of Texel

In the eighteenth century the farmer's wife cooked in a tiny kitchen at a log fire.

 

In 1835 Eierland was empoldered, but before that, sheep probably found their food on tide-land. At dusk they were driven in a pen so they wouldn't be surprised by high tide.

At spring, 1942 Emma and Hendrik Zoetelief moved to the Arend farm. They lived in this old farm until, after land consolidation, it was taken down and rebuilt in 1959.

The old Arend was taken down as it didn't meet modern demands of farming and housing people.

The new Arend was supplied with every novelty you could think of in those days: a telephone, a washing machine with built-in centrifuge. The farmer modernised too: with more space and light for the cows, his stables met the demand of modern and new times.

Hendrik and Emma enjoyed taking the pony and trap.

Years later, their grandson Henk started breeding American Paint Horses at the Arend farm. Since then it came to be called The Eagles Ranch.

In the new Millennium the Arend is run by Hendrik and Emma's son Jo and their grandson Henk.

Jo and his second son Marco are busying themselves cropping the fields.

Henk has aimed at breeding Paint Horses and rearing foals from every part of the Netherlands. He is also a Texel Sheep breeder together with his cousin Jan-Willem Bakker.

 

 

In 2003 Henk and Danielle took over de Arend farm. They both take care of the camping, horse-breeding and foal rearing at the Eagles Ranch as de Arend has been called for some time now. They live here together with their children Bryon, Dennise, Djustin and Desree.

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June 2006 , The Eagles Ranch, Texel

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