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Who we are
About the farm
We farm in the Windrath valley near Velbert-Langenberg, among the hills of the Bergisches Land; since 1977 biodynamically under Demeter guidelines, on about 50 hectares (arable land, grassland, woodland and a 1-hectare garden), run by a farm community of three families. We keep dairy cows, hens, pigs, sheep, goats and bees; the shared Windrather Talkäserei turns our milk into cheese, our baker bakes bread from our own grain, and we grow vegetables in the garden and in the fields. We sell three days a week in our farm shop and on Thursdays and Saturdays at the weekly market in Ratingen; while shopping, visitors are welcome to look around the barn and the garden.
Snapshots
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What we grow
Food crops
Here we list the crops we grow for food. Open a row and we show you what we process from it and which of our products we sell.
Vegetables, mushrooms, herbs
Beetroot
- Fresh produce
Carrots
- Fresh produce
Chard
- Fresh produce
Chicory
- Fresh produce
Courgette
- Fresh produce
Green beans
- Fresh produce
Leeks
- Fresh produce
Lettuce
- Fresh produce
- Pumpkin
Spinach
- Fresh produce
White cabbage
- Fresh produce
What we raise
Livestock
Here we list the animals we keep, with breed and headcount. Open a row and we show you what we process from them (milk, meat, eggs, honey…) and which of our products we sell.
- Bees (10 colonies)
Cattle (10 head) – Holstein Friesian (10 head)
- Beef
- Beef
- Cheese
- Windrather Talkäse
- Milk
- Milk
- Beef
- Goats
Hens
- Eggs
- Table eggs
- Poultry
- Poultry
- Eggs
Pigs
- Pork
- Pork
- Pork
Sheep (5 head)
- Lamb & mutton
- Lamb & mutton
- Lamb & mutton
More of our products
- Bread & bakery
- Bread & bakery
- Rolls
- Baguette
- Kalács (sweet braided bread)
- Sausages & salami
- Sausages & salami
- Yoghurt, kefir, curd, butter, cream
- Curd (quark)
- Yoghurt
- Butter
Processing & crafts
Bakery, dairy processing / cheesemaking
Sales channel
- Farm-gate sales
- Farmers' market
Product categories
Product groups
Area
The farm's size category is based solely on the area of land, not on the scale of official revenue.
49.8 ha (123.1 acre) · small (5–50 ha)- meadow, pasture (grassland) · 25 ha (61.8 acre) · Demeter / biodynamic 50%
- arable land · 20 ha (49.4 acre) · Demeter / biodynamic 40%
- forest · 3.8 ha (9.4 acre) 8%
- garden (vegetables) · 1 ha (2.5 acre) · Demeter / biodynamic 2%
Farming method / certification
Community farming
Languages spoken
GermanData source
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