The online exchange platform terrABC.org focuses on useful, practical and locally adapted methods of agriculture that help to increase plant diversity and soil fertility, make animal husbandry more species-appropriate and enable socially satisfying and economically successful food production.
terrABC is aimed at farmers as experts and practical researchers on their farms. At terrABC.org they can find knowledge, share their own practical experiences and exchange information with colleagues about open questions and successes.
Global Bean projects we are involved in:
Online platform for publishing and sharing cultivation instructions, variety descriptions, processing and recipes. Translation from different languages to German.
Expanding the range of information about legumes on terrabc.org. Extending the farmers network via terrabc.org
The community garden project at the Ecological Education Center as part of Global Bean Project. We are a volunteer group within the community garden project at the Ecological Education Center (ÖBZ) in Munich and collect varieties of beans that are no longer in commercial use. We are enthusiastic about the diversity and the aesthetics of beans, of course also about the culinary enjoyment and their ecological value.
During its two fruitful first years, The Global Bean Project has been funded by the German environment ministry (BMUV) and we were able to carry out a variety of activities with a central coordination amongst a growing global network of experts and enthusiasts. The network now counts above 100 partners from 37 countries. From now
The importance of legumes in arable farming Legumes are of particular importance in arable farming due to their symbiosis with root nodules (rhizobia). The ability of root nodules to fix atmospheric nitrogen makes legumes an important basic component in crop rotations, especially in organic farming. For this reason, legumes are often used not only as
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