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History

The Henselmans family’s roots are in the northwestern part of the Netherlands: Noord-Holland and there are the roots of the business for market gardening as well. As already as 1935 vegetables and bulbs were grown on a total of 2,5 hectares of land there. The first strawberryplants were multiplied in the fifties of the last century. But the procedure in Noord-Holland, very small pieces of land and ditches as means of transport, gave no chance of expansion. So it was after the creation of the Noordoostpolder that Henselmans Senior decided to move with his family to Luttelgeest where they got a business as large as 12 hectares.

In 1973 three sons took over the business. The nursing of strawberryplants on the much lighter sandy soil instead of on clay soil became core business.


Eventually they decided to put an end to the agricultural part of the business at all which resulted in complete specialisation in the growing of strawberryplants.

The small-scaled family business was preserved and the family is still growing the strawberryplants with a lot of pleasure and skill while the next generation is ready to take over the lead.