Thank you for rooting with us

Our hearts are still glowing after last Sunday. What a day! We gathered with 200 soilmates at Le Monde des Mille Couleurs — a day of rooting, tasting, moving, creating, and connecting. From the morning landing to the last note, you brought life and warmth to the soil. Thank you for being part of this journey.

• Photo memories – Relive the day through our photo impressions here below

• Gratitude for our facilitators – Soilmates came alive thanks to many voices, hands, and hearts:

  • Dries Delanote  & colleagues – guiding us through wild farming & food forest dreams

  • Marjan De Ridder – weaving words as climate poet

  • Wim Opbrouck – closing the day in voice, play & presence

  • Helleh Raqs – grounding movement in the heartbeat of the earth

  • Entre Nous & Ceci est Passata – cooking summer into jars

  • Eat Love – serving wild drinks

  • Plant a Pizza – baking wild pizza

  • Natural Cocooning – shaping clay into collective artistry

  • BC Materials, TOOP Architecture  – conversations on the future of building with earth

  • Claron McFadden & Valentina Gatti – a vocal ode to tomato diversity

  • Febe Van Belleghem – playful explorations with children

• Gratitude for our volunteers

  • For welcoming, guiding, building, lifting, carrying, and smiling all day long.

  • You rooted the festival in care.

• Special thanks

  • Elvire Delanote – for shaping the visual language of Soilmates

  • Lies Engelen – for capturing the soul of the day through her lens

We’d love to hear your reflections: what touched you, what could be better, what seeds we might grow next time. Reply to this post — every thought matters.

We’re deeply grateful for everyone who co-created this day — including you. Together, we proved that living soil can grow a lively society.

See you next time,

With muddy hands & sunny smiles,

Nele, Valentina, Erik, Luc, Dries, Steven

Pictures by Lies Engelen Photography