The Demeter Tour

The tour took 2 hours and we were lucky it didn't rain.

My impression? I wasn't expecting some of the things I saw there...

To start, this is Hügelheim with view from the farm that is situated in a really nice area with no traffic, quite idealic.

Hügelheim

This is the shop where they sell transplants...

Transplants


and now comes something I didn't expect to find on a Demeter Farm....grafted Eggplants!! apparently on a Tomato. I was rather shocked...

Eggplant/Aubergine


Tomato the same...all grafted on a different rootstock, at least they were being polinated with bumble bees, which were prone to escaping the greenhouse.

Tomatoes





Cucumbers

Cucumbers

more cucumbers 
Cucumber greenhouse



 
Cucumbers

 The seed making tunnel. From right to left: Celleriac, Lettuce that they bred, basil, radish, radish



Seed production

And here are just impressions of the farm

Borage

The vegetable delivery crates and salamita crates

It was a nice tour but I liked the one I visited in the black forrest better, because it was more Demeter and less high-tech. This one gave the feeling of a conventional greenhouse production, which is not what I expected.

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