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2021-04-24T23:13:24.204Z


The pandemic continues, travel and leisure activities remain restricted. That should be one of the reasons why areas on the Sonnenacker are more in demand than ever. This year, the daily newspaper accompanies Simone Frey and reports in a series about the hard work of the gardener and the joy of harvesting, but also about the trouble with weeds and snails.


The pandemic continues, travel and leisure activities remain restricted.

That should be one of the reasons why areas on the Sonnenacker are more in demand than ever.

This year, the daily newspaper accompanies Simone Frey and reports in a series about the hard work of the gardener and the joy of harvesting, but also about the trouble with weeds and snails.

Kottgeisering -

Christine Andermann from the solidarity community Brucker Land has booked a record number of bifang tenants this year after 2020. Bifang is an old German name for a narrow field. The largest of the ten sunny fields in the district is idyllically located on the edge of the Ampermoos in Kottgeisering. And there, on the Sonnenacker, Simone Frey works.

The 47-year-old painter with a Masters degree in art history has been gardening on the Kottgeiseringer Sonnenacker for the twelfth year.

With her husband Günter and their three children Veit (23), Ida (17) and Ignaz (9), the Graf-ratherin lives on the other side of the Amper in the Rassosiedlung and can look at her Bifang with binoculars.

She also uses the two younger children to work in the fields - for sowing, watering, pulling weeds and collecting Colorado beetle.

“Gardening is pure relaxation, and you get vegetables that you can't otherwise buy,” is her credo.

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The 47-year-old is gardening there for the twelfth year.

The project in the district started over 25 years ago when Josef Drexler handed over the first field to the solidarity community Brucker Land.

Thomas Drexler and Christine Andermann were present at the handover to the lessee.

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She will soon need healthy supplies. Because the large washing machine drum that Simone Frey buried in her Grafrath garden is practically empty. There is only one black radish left in it - but it cannot be eaten because three newts have set up their winter quarters under it. Frey bunkered the radish and many other products of her horticultural work on the Kottgeiseringer Sonnenacker in the drum last autumn. “As far as winter vegetables are concerned, this will bring us to April,” she reports. So it's high time to start the new gardening season.

Simone Frey had long since submitted the registration for her two catches to Christine Andermann von Brucker Land. Strategically clever, only one of the three friends signed up for a total of eight catches. Costs 60 euros per bifang (100 meters). “This way we made sure that we were lying next to each other,” explains the gardener. Because Bifang neighbors, who are not too strict about picking weeds, can sometimes rob you of relaxation.

"The long traditional drawing of the exact Bifang locations among the tenants has to be canceled again this year because of Corona," reports the former mayor of Kottgeisingen, Josef Drexler, who leased the first Sonnenacker to Brucker Land over 25 years ago. There was always a huge crowd of tenants, because afterwards there was gossip. Now the division had to be done again at the office desk. Requests were taken into account as far as possible. “Everyone wants to be close to the water pump - and nobody at the edge,” is how the Sonnenacker representative sums up the wishes.

Drexler's son Thomas came with us to unplug the bifangs.

With courageous blows of the hammer, he thrashes the boards marked with the names of the tenants into the ground.

43 main tenants, some of whom share a bifang with others, have signed up for Kottgeisering this year.

Josef Drexler had an entrepreneur pull 93 rows into the crumbly arable land - more than ever before.

A few frayed round bales of hay limited the space.

The children are happy about the hay bales - a playground for them.

Twelve of the tenants are absolute newbies.

Andermann had advised them to start with half a bifang.

Because: "Gardening is sometimes work, and with weeds you have to stay tuned, otherwise you lose".

Simone Frey has long since ceased to be a beginner.

She was the first to sound out the position of her bifang and is satisfied.

This year, daughter Ida wants to work harder.

Mother and daughter have already brought their first tools and, above all, a self-painted sign.

The first step at Sonnenacker, taking over the bifang, is done.

Now we can start.

New series

The Brucker Tagblatt reports in loose succession how Simone Frey and her family are doing with the Bifang: What needs to be done?

How much is harvested?

There are problems?

Source: merkur

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