Christmas lights in Deurne

One thing we love about Deurne is that it’s surrounded by agriculture. We only have to bike five minutes to get to farmland, and in the cool evening or morning air we can smell the pig farms. It’s a lot like Iowa!

A group of farmers in and near Deurne celebrate Christmas by putting up lights on their farms, and they publish a driving route that can be taken to view their masterpieces. The light tour made a nice after-dinner drive for us last night.

The tour starts outside of town with a traffic sign warning motorists to watch out for babies in mangers.
Then there is a “kerststal” (nativity scene) in a shed.
Along the route there were plenty of predictable tractors lined with lights
And an illuminated truck that says “happy holidays”
A neat European double-bladed plow done up in lights
And nothing’s puts you in the Christmas spirit like a manure spreader decked out with lights.
Several dairies featured illuminated cows
A horse farm had a horse and sleigh made out of lights
There was corn
A turkey farm
And one farm had both chickens and vegetables.
With all these pretty lights, how could we choose a favorite? Since I’m a mycologist, I was naturally drawn to the mushroom farm, with an illuminated smiley mushroom surrounded by a congregation of overgrown wooden mushrooms.
But it’s hard to beat a farrowing operation with anatomically correct girl and boy pigs in love.