Green success story: Solidarity agriculture Isartal wants to grow
Created: 2023-01-02 17:00
Rich harvest: Solidarity Agriculture Isartal grows lettuce, herbs and vegetables on a 2.8 hectare field in Degerndorf.
The cooperative now plans to grow.
© ella von der Haide
It was a productive year for Solidarity Agriculture (Solawi) Isartal.
The cooperative wants to grow and offers more subscriptions.
Degerndorf – After a productive year, Solidarity Farming (Solawi) Isartal eG wants to expand.
Vegetable box subscriptions are available again for the next season.
The vegetable cooperative looks back on its first year with satisfaction.
In the spring, as reported, she leased a field of around 2.8 hectares from a farmer from Münsing in Degerndorf in order to grow lettuce, herbs and vegetables there.
Fennel, kohlrabi, chard, cauliflower, leeks and kale thrived well into winter.
Münsing: Solidarity Agriculture Isartal wants to grow after a successful year
The harvest is divided among all 150 comrades at collection stations between Pullach and Wolfratshausen.
Every Wednesday you get a box full of healthy greens for 22 euros, including tips on how to prepare them.
Because not everyone knows what to do with turnips or black radishes.
Five to seven varieties are included, and a filling fruit such as a potato or pumpkin is always included.
"We could have filled the boxes with twice as many products," says Chairwoman Ella von der Haide.
This year, the organic partner company Schlossgärtnerei Weidenkam was responsible for the fruit portion.
The “Solawisti” work closely with her.
But soon the comrades want to be able to pick their own apples.
Together with the organic apple grower Oliver Braunhold from Gauting, they planted 18 young apple trees in Ebenhausen.
They also have a hedge with native berries and elder, which also benefits insects and birds.
"Everyone can, but does not have to, work together"
The members meet at festivals, hold virtual conferences and help on a voluntary basis twice a week in the fields, packing boxes and organizing the company.
"Anyone can, but doesn't have to, work together," says Ella von der Haide.
She is a landscape gardener herself.
The board also includes a farmer and a gardener for vegetable cultivation.
The members come from Munich as well as from the communities in the Isar valley and the district.
Because the project has started so well, Solawi Isartal is planning to expand.
The 150 vegetable boxes so far are to be increased to 250 next year.
They are filled from March to December.
In the winter months, in addition to lamb's lettuce, kale and stored fruit, there is also home-made tomato sauce or jam.
"The content is always enough for two to three people," says von der Haide.
This means that the solidarity hobby gardeners will have to cultivate, tend and harvest more in the future.
In 2022, they were assisted by a professional gardener, who the Solawi has since left.
Yield is shared - even if it was a bad harvest
We are currently looking for one or two gardeners.
The position is well paid and very varied, advertises the chair.
Another goal is the switch from conventional cultivation to organic cultivation.
It lasts two years.
Von der Haide would also like it if the cooperative could offer guided tours for school children in the future.
A person with pedagogical skills would be welcome here.
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For years there have been farms in the region that regularly deliver organic vegetables to their customers, for example the "Isarland Ökokiste".
The new and exciting thing about solidarity agriculture is that the producers of the food and the consumers enter into a close community beyond the usual market events of supply and demand.
The vegetables are not bought, but shared - and that applies to both good and bad harvests.
Thus, unlike in the market economy, it is not the producers alone who bear the full risk, for example after a hailstorm, but the community.
Anyone who would like to implement their good intentions of healthy, regional and seasonal nutrition and an ecological way of life can secure the vegetable box as a comrade from April 2023 or support the cooperative as a supporting member.
Tanya Lühr
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Interested parties can find out more about this topic on the Internet at www.solawi-isartal.de.
The next online information evening will take place on January 19 from 7.30 p.m.
By the way: everything from the region is also available in our regular Wolfratshausen-Geretsried newsletter.
