A Bamboo Salt Lick Holder for Our Goats
We made a simple salt lick holder from bamboo, using its natural node as the base and a stainless-steel chain for strength and durability.
Read the story →Santander, Cebu · Dutch-Filipino homestead
Welcome to De Klomp
Ring the bell, come on in, grab a bamboo chair, and have a cup of coffee with us.
We're Mike and Jenalyn — a Dutch-Filipino family building a homestead in Santander, Cebu. We grow food, raise goats, bake bread, make cheese, preserve old skills, and share what we learn along the way.
Some things work. Some things fail. Both make good stories.
Snapshots from the homestead Showing image 1 of 4: Life at De Klomp Homestead — doe nursing newborn goat kids
What De Klomp is really about
Producing what we can. Buying what we must. Sharing what we learn. Building a resilient life.
De Klomp isn't mainly a business. It's our home base — a place where Mike and Jenalyn are building a life that can provide more of what we need ourselves.
We still buy flour, salt, tools, and many other things. That's honest. But every tomato from the garden, every liter of goat milk, and every loaf of bread we bake makes us a little less fragile.
If the homestead creates surplus, that surplus can become income. But profit is a tool to support the homestead — not the other way around.
Life at De Klomp
A little bit of everything we're growing, making, and learning — one day at a time.
Goats and milk
Fresh milk, curious personalities, and a feeding forest we're building so they can eat from our own land.
Take a look →Bread, cheese and old recipes
Real bread that goes stale in two days. Cheese experiments. Family recipes passed down for generations.
Take a look →Garden, fruit and flowers
Dragon fruit, vegetables, herbs, and whatever the tropical garden decides to surprise us with this season.
Take a look →Solar, water and resilience
Sun on the roof, clean water from our well, and systems that keep daily life steady when the outside world wobbles.
Take a look →Feeding forest and fodder plants
Malunggay, Napier grass, Indigofera, and other useful plants — fodder from the land for the goats and the soil.
Take a look →Supporting the Herd
Producing what we can also means buying what we must. Minerals, pellets, molasses, pollard, and other supplements help keep the goats healthy while the feeding forest keeps growing.
See what we still buy →Latest from the homestead
Honest stories — the wins, the fails, and the lessons in between.
Healthy Goats Are Happy Goats
Our goats browse Napier, leaves and local fodder plants from our land. For lactating does we also add concentrates, protein, pollard and minerals so milk never comes at the cost of health.
Read the story →What We Make With Our Smoked Bacon Trimmings
The trimmings from our home-smoked bacon never go to waste. We slowly turn them into a rich bacon jam with onions, brown sugar and Jack Daniel’s.
Read the story →Building Our Goat Milking Stand
Milking close to the ground is hard on the back, so we built a raised goat milking stand from bamboo, reused coco lumber, and laminated marine plywood at a working height designed specifically for Jenalyn.
Read the story →Around the table
Food that tastes like the old days — because it's made that way.
Mike grew up with old-school food knowledge. Bread with crust and flavor. Cheese with character. Fruit that was sweet because it was ripe. Preserves and smoked meats made with care, not chemistry.
At De Klomp we keep those flavors alive with modern tools — a good mixer, solar power, food-safe methods — but the soul of the food stays old-school.
When someone tastes something and says, “That tastes like the old days,” we know the knowledge is still alive.
Come along for the journey
We're not selling a perfect life. Plants fail. Cheese fails. Goats surprise you. Weather changes plans.
We share all of it — because that's where the real value is. Pull up a chair, follow along, and welcome to De Klomp.