{"id":5849,"date":"2022-04-27T18:35:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gutundboesel.org\/ueber-uns\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:26:06","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gutundboesel.org\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Find out who and what is behind Gut&B\u00f6sel. How a former east german “Agricultural Production Cooperative” state run farm, in one of the driest locations in Germany became a place full of ideas and hopes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Beyond Farming<\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Gut&B\u00f6sel stands for everything that takes place in Alt Madlitz. From our fields and forest, to the treatment of soil, to data collection and scientific study. Gut&B\u00f6sel embraces innovation in land use, forestry and research. We are working on a paradigm shift for agriculture on 3000 hectares in Alt Madlitz and beyond.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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December 2016<\/div>

After several years as an investment banker and consultant in the agri-tech sector, Benedikt completed his master's degree in agricultural economics and returned to Alt Madlitz, in Brandenburg to take over a family-run 3,000-hectare farming and forestry business, from his parents.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The farm in Madlitz has suffered with very low rainfall for two arid summers in a row. It was at this time that Benedikt realized technology alone can not secure the future of farming. So he started investigating solutions. It was then that he came across the work of various pioneers of regenerative agriculture from all over the world<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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After the sale of his car and a few shares from his former life in banking give Benedikt the start-up capital he needs, he goes on to found the company \"LandVision GmbH.\" It is through this company Benedikt implements early multifunctional land use models on the farm. He and his new team begin to establish the first agroforestry systems and the first 20 cows arrive in Alt Madlitz. By May of the same year, the agroforestry pioneer Ernst G\u00f6tsch comes to visit for a workshop.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Benedikt meets Renke, a forester & arborist at an agroforestry workshop. It is Renke who later becomes his first permanent employee in the Landvision company and agroforestry planner. In the winter, they establish the first Syntropic Agroforestry System of the farm, with a focus on a wide variety of different fruits, such as figs and blackberries, and nut trees. Ernst G\u00f6tsch visits in October for a second time.<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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At a conference in Kiel, Benedikt meets Anne and Deacon. A couple who\u2019d lived and worked in Berlin for a long time and were looking for a piece of land to fulfill their dream of creating a market garden. At the end of 2019, they moved to Alt Madlitz to start their CSA project on one hectare and created the dynamic market garden that is today called \"Ackerpulco\".\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The beginning of our partnerships with ecover and Followfood. These provide financing for more agroforestry systems and our first forest conversion project.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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We have established our first no-till agroforestry seeding system. Using this method we have sown 80% of seeds and planted only the mother seedlings. (This mother tree hypothesis predicts that the seeds growth is higher when it stays close to the zone of its mothers active roots.) In addition, we have converted our coniferous trees into a Christmas tree plantation and planted a deciduous pasture system. This silvo-pastoral agroforestry system is one through which our cows will be able to later graze on.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Our compost department and tree nursery are built. 2000 trees are grafted to wooden posts to encourage them to grow into strong trees that are adapted to the ecological conditions in Brandenburg. \u00a0<\/div>
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We have established the Finck Foundation<\/a> at the beginning of the year with the aim of providing scientific support for our agricultural and forestry work, developing and researching resilient land use models, and promoting education & training.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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We began the development of machines for agroforestry systems with Kilian and his team from the Allg\u00e4u region. Our collaboration with the renowned Kuratorium f\u00fcr Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e.V. (KTBL) starts.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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We have planted another agroforestry system, a so-called Keyline system. This marks our first forest conversion project. Here we planted a total of 17.5 kilometers of tree and seed strips, sowed 1.5 million seeds, and hung over 250 nesting boxes for barn owls and other birds.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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We have designed a digital blueprint of our systems. This is a georeferenced representation of our database, with which we can record data from our agricultural projects: from soil qualities to yields, stocks to nutrients. \u00a0<\/div>
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